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4 Jun 2013, 4:35 pm by Rekha Arulanantham
  Today, the ACLU and Cooley LLP filed suit in California to challenge these endemic abuses. [read post]
22 May 2013, 6:41 am by Joe Consumer
“Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of our democracy, whether it’s the Associated Press or Antiwar.com,” said Julia Mass, staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. [read post]
20 May 2013, 8:00 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Barbara Brenner, the longtime director of Breast Cancer Action ("BCA"), was a frequent and trusted ACLU collaborator – as an employee at the ACLU of Southern California's women's rights project, as a law intern at the ACLU of Northern California, as an affiliate and national board member, as a cooperating attorney, and, most recently, as a client. [read post]
6 May 2013, 5:00 pm by Cyrus Farivar
As recently as March 2013, Piedmont, a rich Northern California town that is completely surrounded by Oakland, moved toward placing such devices at its entire city border with Oakland. [read post]
6 May 2013, 10:33 am by Josh Bell
A Patchwork of Policies In addition to the FBI documents, the ACLU also received records from six U.S. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 4:29 pm by Mali Friedman
  The Right to Know Act was re-referred to the California Assembly Judiciary Committee on April 2, 2013 and has support from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU of Northern California. [read post]
30 Mar 2013, 9:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
District Court for Arizona Thursday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.Installed in an unmarked van, Stingray mimics a cellphone tower, so it can pinpoint the precise location of any mobile device in range and intercept conversations and data, said Linda Lye, staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California in a blog post about the case.In a rare public discussion of federal electronic surveillance capabilities and authorities, Justice Department lawyers… [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 1:40 pm by Alex Vitrak
DOJ Emails Show Feds Were Less Than "Explicit" With Judges On Cell Phone Tracking Tool A Justice Department document obtained by the ACLU of Northern California shows that federal investigators were routinely using a sophisticated cell phone tracking tool known as a "stingray," but hiding that fact from federal magistrate judges when asking for permission to do so. [read post]
28 Mar 2013, 11:18 am
No law firm in California wanted to hire her and only one offered her a position, and that was as a legal secretary. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 6:20 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Ed Yourdon According to new Justice Department e-mails obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, and published on Wednesday, federal investigators have been routinely using “stingrays" to catch bad guys. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 6:23 am by Josh Bell
A Justice Department document obtained by the ACLU of Northern California shows that federal investigators were routinely using a sophisticated cell phone tracking tool known as a "stingray," but hiding that fact from federal magistrate judges when asking for permission to do so. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 1:05 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Andy King A San Francisco activist, a local attorney, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California collectively filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against the City and County of San Francisco and its police chief, alleging that the activist's rights were violated when a police officer warrantlessly searched his cellphone at the time of his arrest in January 2012. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 1:25 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
The first incident involved seven gunshots fired at a Northern California Islamic community center in January 2007. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 1:56 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Last September, the ACLU of Northern California, along with two parents of students at Clovis High School, brought a case against the Clovis Unified School District under a state law that mandates that sex education in public schools be comprehensive, medically accurate, science-based and bias-free. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 2:23 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Three of the plaintiffs in the ACLU of Northern California's challenge to our state's law were arrested at political protests (none was ever convicted of anything and two weren't even charged). [read post]