American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, a 501(c)(4) defending the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution for all
SoCal (LA, OC, IE, Kern)
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UPDATE: The county brought in helicopters and several battalions of firefighters, including incarcerated firefighters, to protect the nearly 5,000 incarcerated people and staff of the jail until the fire was under control.
Putting pressure on public officials works.
URGENT: The four north county jails are now in a mandatory evacuation zone due to the Hughes Fire‼️ We’ve alerted the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, but we need your help.
Call the Board and demand an immediate evacuation OUTSIDE of the Hughes Fire evacuation zone.
UPDATE: The LA Sheriff's Department and Board of Supervisors have failed to evacuate at least 4,700 people who are incarcerated just five miles from a wildfire that broke out hours ago.
The board must act NOW to save the lives of the people who are imprisoned.
The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly 5 miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The sheriff's department has struggled with a shortage of buses to transport inmates. latimes.com/california/story…
Over the past three years, 120 deported veterans have finally returned home to the United States.
But without a pardon from President Biden, most of these veterans will soon be at risk of deportation again by the upcoming Trump administration.
As we celebrate Veterans Day today, we think of the twenty-five veterans and their families that need us to act now.
Take action and tell the Biden administration to protect our veterans from deportation: aclusocal.co/protect-immigra…
BREAKING: @UCLA suppressed student and faculty free speech. So, we sued them.
Read: aclusocal.co/ucla-free-speec…
Today, two students and two faculty members at @UCLA sued the UC Regents for violating their rights to free speech and for unlawfully arresting students and faculty engaged in nonviolent demonstration at a campus encampment.
Here’s what they had to say:
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Register at registertovote.ca.gov. 🗳️
As student protests continue to ramp up across the state, we revisit the ACLU SoCal's history defending the right to speak out.
Read: aclusocal.co/our-right-to-sp…
BREAKING: In spite of disappointing rulings and orders on houselessness from the Supreme Court to the governor's office, we fought the City of San Bernardino’s discriminatory policies against unhoused people with disabilities and succeeded.
More: aclusocal.co/protecting-righ…
Thank you to our co-counsel, @omelvenymyers and #ElderLawandDisabilityRightsCenter, for joining us in the fight to protect the rights of all unhoused individuals.
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All our friends vote down ballot.
If you or someone you know is a SoCal voter, here’s a guide on down-ballot issues that directly impact our freedoms, families and future. For more: aclusocal.co/vote-local-s
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We’re thrilled to confirm three of our deserving honorees at the upcoming 2024 Bill of Rights Awards!👇
Mark Ruffalo and Brittney and Cherelle Griner will be honored by ACLU SoCal at this year’s Bill of Rights Awards. bit.ly/3Zie9xU
At least eight people have died in ICE custody at the Adelanto facility since 2011. No one – no family – deserves this.
Demand ICE Leadership close the Adelanto and Desert View Annex detention centers now: aclusocal.co/shut-down-adela…
Detention should never mean dehumanization. Last week, the #ShutDownAdelanto Coalition rallied outside the USCIS Los Angeles Field Office, sharing the 22 demands and powerful testimonies from the men courageously participating in the #HungerStrike inside Desert View Annex.
Learn more: telemundo52.com/noticias/loc…
👇👇👇@LACountyBOS, take note.
Jails are inhumane they lead to dangerous conditions & terrible outcomes. @lapubdef Chief Deputy, Justine Esack told @LACountyBOS that diverting individuals with serious charges to community treatment programs is possible. Every dollar spent criminalizing poverty and mental illness is a dollar better spent saving lives, getting people out of cages, and investing in communities. #closeMCJ #carenotcages
Will Los Angeles County ever follow through on a “care first” approach that does not include a jail or similar facility?
Read more by @keribla latimes.com/california/story…
The county’s Office of Diversion and Reentry has successfully kept thousands of people out of the jails but has never been adequately funded says our Chief Counsel @EliasbergPeter in response to the Board of Supervisors’ appearing to backpedal on its commitment to care first.
ICYMI: @CityofSantaAna officials and the Santa Ana Police Department are not forwarding civilian complaints to the Police Oversight Commission, whose purview is to ensure just that: police oversight. This directly violates municipal law requiring them to do so.
Read my latest op-ed in the @ocregister. Santa Ana must uphold the integrity of its Police Oversight Commission. Our community fought for 60 years for this milestone, and now the Council needs to follow through with the original vision and intent. (1/4)
ocregister.com/2024/07/29/sa…
.@CityofSantaAna, these issues are precisely why you need to hire an Independent Oversight Director ASAP and promptly ensure the commission has access to all civilian complaints.
Listen to calls by @ChispaOC and community members and take action now.
FYI: @CAgovernor’s executive order does not strip unhoused people of constitutional protections. For example, cities are still constitutionally prohibited from seizing and destroying unhoused people's property without adequate due process or charging excessive fines. 🧵
BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order for the removal of homeless encampments in the state. apnews.com/article/californi…
It is hard to imagine a starker example of excessive punishment than fining and jailing a person for the basic human act of sleeping.
Today, the Supreme Court has effectively criminalized the existence of unhoused people.
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VICTORY: Yesterday, a federal judge in California ruled ICE’s practice of “knock and talks” to conduct home arrests is unlawful and unconstitutional.
For more on why this is important: aclusocal.co/ICE-knock-and-t…
For those that don't know, this is illegal (and true to form for @LASDHQ).
Per Penal Code section 830.10:
“Any uniformed peace officer shall wear a badge, nameplate, or other device which bears clearly on its face the identification number or name of the officer”.
Fun fact: it’s illegal for @LASDHQ officers to cover the identifying information on their uniforms.
They’re doing all this turning up on mothers who lost loved ones inside holding a community gathering outside the jail. And shut down visitation at MCJ. On Mother’s Day weekend.
Again, exercising your constitutional right to free speech should never be met with violence. @UCLA’s failure to protect student speech is inexcusable.
(@EliasbergPeter via @BBCWorld)
To be clear, these are not “counter-protesters” exercising their First Amendment rights.
This is a mob committing horrific acts of violence against student protesters.
Violence is not protected by the First Amendment.
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At least 100 people armed with fireworks, bear spray, and handmade weapons descended on the @UCLA students’ Gaza solidarity encampment late last night and violently assaulted many of the protesters.
