SF News Update: SF Rejects ACLU's Surprise Settlement Offer in Lawsuit Against Homeless Sweeps The ACLU and the Coalition on Homelessness offered SF City Hall a settlement to end their nearly year-long lawsuit against encampment sweeps, but City Attorney David Chiu says no deal.
SF News ACLU Joins Fight Against Oakland School Closures, Claiming Racial Discrimination The ACLU has now filed a complaint with the California Department of Justice urging the attorney general to look in to the Oakland Unified School District's plan to close seven schools and merge two others next year, saying the plan disproportionately impacts Black families.
SF News Apple Exec and ACLU Are Suing Homeland Security Over An SFO Search Prominent privacy advocate and Apple executive Andreas Gal has teamed up with the ACLU on a lawsuit against the federal government concerning invasive practices by Customs and Border Patrol.
SF News ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Trump On Behalf Of Three Middle Eastern Students The ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of three students at California universities who have been living here legally with F-1 student visas who are now barred from traveling
SF News ACLU Joins Incubator Y Combinator To Help Manage Its New Influx Of Wealth Y Combinator president Sam Altman's heart grew three sizes today as he announced the American Civil Liberties Union would join his startup incubator in order to manage its massive influx of funding. The
SF News Second Day Of Protest Hits SFO As Airbnb Offers Free Rooms To Those Affected By Travel Ban Protesters are set to descend on the International Terminal at SFO for the second day in a row, at noon on Sunday, to express their outrage over Donald Trump's actions with regard to
SF News ACLU Celebrates Temporary Victory Over Trump's Order On Immigration; Mayor Lee Commends Federal Judge Hundreds showed up at SFO and elsewhere Saturday to protest President Trump's executive order on immigrants from seven primarily Muslim nations, which had led to detentions of innocent people at airports nationwide who
SF News ACLU Sues California To Remove Ban On Ballot Selfies If you don't Instagram it, did it really happen? By that logic, if you don't snap a photo of your ballot and post it on social media, does your vote even count? Yes,
SF News In Ongoing Battle With Catholic Hospital, ACLU Moves To Sue Over Refused Tubal Ligations Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California, which is part of the SF-based, mostly Catholic Dignity Health network, has come under fire from the ACLU of Northern California after refusing to perform tubal ligations
SF News SF Public Defender Seen In Viral Courthouse Video Will Not Be Charged Attorney Jami Tillotson will not be charged with any crime in connection with her brief detention by San Francisco Police at the Hall of Justice on January 27 which was caught on video
SF News Gavin Newsom To Fire Up New Weed Legalization Team Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom will be the new point man on the ACLU's marijuana legalization task force, the civil rights group announced yesterday. Newsom, who reminds everyone he is not a smoker himself,
SF News Black People Arrested for Pot Possession Way More Than Whites If you think the War on Drugs is mostly about "hard" drugs these days, think again. And when it comes to the War on Pot, it's been a futile war to say the
SF News SFPD Sued By ACLU And Homeless Advocate Over Cell Phone Search The ACLU filed suit today against the City of San Francisco and its police chief over what they say was an illegal search of a man's cell phone in the Castro's Jane Warner
SF News San Francisco Still Not Cool With Police Tasers SFPD Chief Greg Suhr wants to equip his department with 100 or so electric stun guns as part of a new pilot program that would specifically train officers to handle mentally ill people.
SF News ACLU Doesn't Like Siri's Loose Lips Siri — the iPhone 4S's personal-assistant feature that lets you use your voice to send messages, make calls, set reminders, and ask filthy questions — has come under fire from the American Civil Liberties Union
SF News Oakland Drops $100,000+ On Independent Investigation Into Police Conduct During Occupy We're not sure what's worse: Spending millions of dollars to protect a concrete and grass plaza from a few dozen earnest hippies and ultimately brutalizing several protesters and launching a nationally vilified tear-gas
SF News More Reactions, Pro and Con, to BART's Cell Service Shutdown Did BART Police violate everyone's civil liberties by switching off cell phone service last week, or were they simply acting in the name of public safety? An editorial in the Examiner today argues
SF News Why Is a California State Agency Illegally Revealing Info About HIV+ Patients? The ACLU, Lambda Legal, and HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA) are "demanding a full explanation for the unauthorized and illegal disclosures of confidential identifying information of approximately 5,000 HIV-positive Medi-Cal
SF News The ACLU of NorCal Responds to the Prop 8 Ruling The ACLU has issued their official, cautious statement regarding today's ruling, which they caution "is not the end." “Today’s decision is a huge victory for the LGBT people of America. For the
SF News ACLU Trying to Fight State's DNA Collection Policy We want to like the ACLU, really we do, but sometimes they have to take difficult positions in order to secure legal precedents like privacy rights, as in the case they're arguing now
SF News ACLU Will Appeal Order In Prop 8 Campaign Doc Challenge Yesterday, if you recall, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ordered gay marriage advocacy groups to turn over campaign materials from the election fight over Prop 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage.
SF News Tips for Protesting During Today's 'Action for Public Education' During today's Day of Statewide Action for Public Education rallies, things are sure to get heated. And while many a protester foolishly thinks getting arrested or vandalizing amounts to something other than looking
SF News ACLU Files Lawsuit Against California's Mandatory DNA Collection When you're arrested for a felony in the state of California, so is your DNA. The Golden State takes a DNA sample from everyone arrested for a felony, any felony, whether or not
SF News Update on Federal Prop 8 Lawsuit: Should SF, Gay Legal Groups Get Involved, Or Not? The City of San Francisco has moved to intervene on behalf of the gay Burbank couple and the Berkeley lesbian couple who are the mascots in a huge federal lawsuit to overturn Prop
SF News Sixth Grader's Project About Harvey Milk Censored by School Embedded video from CNN Video Natalie Jones, a sixth-grader in Ramona, California, created a Powerpoint presentation about Harvey Milk's life and activism, for which she received a near-perfect score. The day before the
