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15 Apr 2024, 3:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
A similar scenario has unfolded in Rocklin Unified and Dry Creek Joint Elementary, north of Sacramento, and the Anderson Union High School District in Northern California. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 3:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
When Newsom urged the Supreme Court to take the Grants Pass case last year, he said it was a chance for the conservative court to “correct course” for the entire American West. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 4:29 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
Today, I joined the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in moving to unseal a sealed case in federal district court in the Eastern District of California. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 1:12 pm by lennyesq
And the whole point is that’s not enough,” said William Freeman, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California who represented three teens in a class-action lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Justice, the Office of Refuge Resettlement and others. [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 5:09 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
You may recall that in February, a federal district court in Fresno denied a petition I filed with the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to attempt to shed light on the Department of Justice's attempt to force Facebook to break the encryption on its Messenger app for encrypted voice calls so that Facebook could carry out a wiretap order the DOJ had obtained. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 2:37 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
Following press reporting about the case in the summer of 2018, I joined the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in filing a motion to unseal certain parts of that sealed matter (principally the court's opinion and the case's docket sheet). [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 9:34 am by Steve Hall
"A lot of people think the death penalty is cheaper, but that's a myth," said Natasha Minsker, death penalty policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the head of the Alameda County Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 8:00 am
Yet ICE’s so-called Privacy Guidance contains gaping holes that enable ICE to infringe on civil liberties. [read post]
21 Feb 2020, 8:57 am by Ezekiel Edwards
That is when the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California, and the law firm Durie Tangri LLP sued the SFPD on behalf of the Black people whose constitutional rights had been violated. [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 3:33 am
Mark Schlosberg of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California said the arrest data 'raises a lot of questions on how policing is being done.' He said problems with outmoded technology for tracking officers' work and other department statistics will 'make it very difficult for someone from the outside to conduct a comprehensive investigation in a short period of time.' " San Francisco Chronicle [read post]
And we have launched a nationwide effort under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain information on the FBI racial mapping program and the ways in which it violates the civil rights and liberties of innocent Americans. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 12:32 pm
12/01/09 SF Chronicle: The American Civil Liberties Union, which supports marital rights for gays and lesbians, is siding with opponents of same-sex marriage who are challenging a judge's order to turn over campaign documents from last year's effort to pass Proposition 8 ... [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 9:09 am by Steve Hall
"We want to know where they are buying this stuff, for how much, and what process they are using to acquire it," said Natasha Minsker, death penalty policy director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, which sued to force release of the information. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 9:30 pm by Justin Daniel
District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction in response to a lawsuit brought by eleven states, blocking the guidance because the federal government failed to fulfill the notice and comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act and because the guidance is not a legal directive under Title IX—a decision hailed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who called the guidance an “illegal federal overreach,” but criticized by a… [read post]
4 Feb 2014, 10:15 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Aguilar, NAEIP Liaison, Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State Laughlin McDonald, Director, American Civil Liberties Union, Voting Rights Project Nina Perales, Senior Attorney, Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund James T. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 8:42 pm
"Policy discussion advocatedTania Simoncelli, a science adviser for the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, said the expansion of DNA as a crime-fighting tool should be the subject of a broad policy discussion of its effect on society. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 11:50 am by Steve Hall
A 2010 study from the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union found that California would be forced to spend $1 billion on the death penalty in the next five years if the state does not replace capital punishment with permanent imprisonment. [read post]
1 Mar 2020, 7:44 pm by Rebecca Salamacha
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Sierra Club, and Southern Boarder Communities Coalition sued, asking the Northern District of California District Court to block the president’s diversion of the funds. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 9:28 am by Steve Hall
And:But no state matches the dilemma of California, where almost 700 inmates are sitting on death row and, according to Natasha Minsker, author of a new report by the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, few will ever actually be put to death. [read post]
1 May 2009, 5:21 pm
Plaintiffs' counsel Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union said after the ruling that Obama should be "grateful," because it lays a road map for exactly how the court thinks his administration should treat state secrets litigation. [read post]