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13 Mar 2019, 8:00 am
Records obtained by the ACLU of Northern California in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit detail ICE’s sweeping use of a vast automated license plate reader (ALPR) database run by a company called Vigilant Solutions. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 2:15 pm
Last year, the ACLU of Northern California highlighted how this bias plays out in Amazon’s face recognition system, called Rekognition, which the company is aggressively marketing to law enforcement. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 2:42 pm by Malkia Cyril
[This is a guest post authored by Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 4:37 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
On February 11, a federal court in Fresno denied a motion to unseal that I had filed last November along with the ACLU, the ACLU of Northern California, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 9:48 am by Matthew Borges
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California on Wednesday filed a complaint against the Sacramento County Sheriff for blocking Black Lives Matter (BLM) leaders from his Facebook page. [read post]
30 Jan 2019, 2:04 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
At CIS, we've had a whirlwind month of activity in several different cases: My colleague Jennifer Granick (now at the ACLU) and I filed our objections to the unfavorable report and recommendation issued in December in our petition to unseal sealed surveillance records in the Northern District of California. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 12:52 pm by Monica Williamson
Hoopa Valley Tribal Court RFP, Northern California, 95526. [read post]
25 Dec 2018, 12:46 pm by Dave Maass
Amazon Teams Up With Law Enforcement to Deploy Dangerous New Face Recognition Technology - ACLU of Northern California I’m an Amazon Employee. [read post]
21 Dec 2018, 12:27 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
In September 2016, my colleague Jennifer Granick (now at the ACLU) and I filed a petition in the federal district court for the Northern District of California that sought to unseal years' worth of sealed surveillance matters filed in that court. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 9:24 am by Erin McCarthy Holliday
In an order on Tuesday afternoon, Northern District of California Judge Jon Tigar wrote the court could not “reasonably conclude” that the issues presented “require resolution within one day without an opportunity for the opposing parties to be heard,” citing that the defendants had waited eight days to file their motion for a stay. [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]
21 Nov 2018, 1:30 pm
Earlier this year, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, and the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all lawful permanent residents who have enlisted in the U.S. armed forces but have effectively been prevented from serving because of the policy. [read post]
10 Nov 2018, 7:29 am by Anushka Limaye
Kahn also shared a lawsuit by three immigrant advocacy organizations represented by the ACLU in the Northern District of California challenging the legality of the proclamation. [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 8:30 am
So the national ACLU, the ACLU of Northern California, and the law firm Durie Tangri LLP have sued the city of San Francisco seeking damages on behalf of Black plaintiffs harmed by the SFPD’s race-based policing. [read post]
27 Sep 2018, 2:30 pm
A Northern California school district is creating a hostile environment for a Black student with disabilities in violation of the law. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 2:26 pm by Emma Zack
We oppose the bill because it seeks to replace the current deeply-flawed system with an overly broad presumption of preventive detention,” wrote the ACLU of California’s three executive directors in northern and southern California and San Diego in a joint statement. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 8:00 am
False Matches: ACLU of Northern California tested Amazon’s Rekognition facial recognition system by loading it with photos of members of Congress and letting it run comparisons to arrest photos. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 11:12 am by Camille Fischer
EFF filed an amicus brief in support of an ACLU of Northern California lawsuit to enforce privacy protections that Congress put in place in the 1970s against government surveillance. [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 10:52 am by Emma Zack
To conduct the test, the ACLU of Northern California created a database of 25,000 publicly available mugshots. [read post]