2022 LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATE ISSUES GUIDE
We asked state legislative candidates where they stand on the most vital civil rights and civil liberties issues facing Californians today. See who responded and who refused.
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The Fight to Defend all Californians’ Access to Abortion Continues—No Matter What SCOTUS Decides
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How California’s Proposed “Gun Safety” Law Threatens to Erode Constitutional Rights for All
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Disability, Civil Rights Groups say Fundamental Questions Must Be Answered Regarding ‘CARE Court’ Proposal
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Justice & democracy are on the line. We invited #AD20 candidates, representing #Hayward and #Fremont, to state their positions on the most vital civil rights & civil liberties issues facing Californians today.
Swipe through for the highlights from @esteen4ca @lizforassembly→
🔗See the full questionnaire using the link in our bio or highlights.
* ACLU California Action is non-partisan and does not endorse candidates for public office. Our candidate survey is designed to educate ACLU’s members and members of the voting public about public policy positions that impact our mission.
Justice & democracy are on the line. We invited 📍#SD10 candidates, representing Santa Clara & Alameda county, to state their positions on the most vital civil rights & civil liberties issues facing Californians today.
Swipe through for the highlights from @Aishabbwahab →
🔗See the full questionnaire using the link in our bio or highlights.
* ACLU California Action is non-partisan and does not endorse candidates for public office. Our candidate survey is designed to educate ACLU’s members and members of the voting public about public policy positions that impact our mission.
Tell California lawmakers: NO to facial recognition on police body cams!
🗣@senbenhueso @senbilldodd
@senatorcaballero, vote YES on #SB1038.
Protect our communities against face-scanning body cameras. Pass #SB1038.
🔗Contact your CA senator to support this bill using the link in our bio.
Justice & democracy are on the line. We invited 📍#AD61 candidates – representing #Hawthorne, #Inglewood, #MarinaDelRey, #Lawndale & #Westmont – to state their positions on the most vital civil rights & civil liberties issues facing Californians today.
Swipe through for the highlights from @Tinamckinnor →
🔗See the full questionnaire using the link in our bio or highlights.
* ACLU California Action is non-partisan and does not endorse candidates for public office. Our candidate survey is designed to educate ACLU’s members and members of the voting public about public policy positions that impact our mission.
Justice & democracy are on the line. We invited 📍#AD10 candidates, representing #Sacramento & #ElkGrove, to state their positions on the most vital civil rights & civil liberties issues facing Californians today.
Swipe through for the highlights from @EricGuerra @drtporter →
🔗See the full questionnaire using the link in our bio or highlights.
* ACLU California Action is non-partisan and does not endorse candidates for public office. Our candidate survey is designed to educate ACLU’s members and members of the voting public about public policy positions that impact our mission.
Racist terms and names have no place in our communities or on our federal lands.
AB 2022 would require every state agency or local governing body in the state to identify and forbid the word sq*** from all official places throughout California, create a process in consultation with tribal leaders to rename these areas, establish a process for removing and renaming future racist names throughout California, and more.
To get the latest updates on this bill, sign up for our email alerts using the link in our bio!
California law mandates that educators call the police on students for certain behavior, denying educators the flexibility to decide how to handle each situation and exposing students of color to unnecessary contact with police and the school-to-prison pipeline.
📣Tell your California lawmaker to pass #SB1273 to eliminating state mandates for school notification of law enforcement. Take action using the link in our bio or highlights.
A slew of bills this year endanger democracy for lawmakers’ convenience. Read the op-ed by the @LATimes using the link in our stories.
Excerpt:
"Under AB 1944 and AB 2449, state and local elected and appointed officials would be able to call in from secret locations such as, say, an exclusive club, the corner bar or a big donor’s private estate, instead of sitting among their colleagues in a public place.
They could just phone it in, without ever making
themselves available to their constituents face to face."
#AB1944 #AB2449
📣Tell our elected officials: if you support reproductive justice, support this bill.
✔Take action using the link in our bio or in our story highlights.
Are you ready to vote in the California June 7 Primary Election? So much is at stake.
Make sure all your bases are covered. Link in our bio.🔗
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Join us this Saturday as we make it known: Abortion is our right. We will not stop fighting.
Find out more info & the location nearest to you at the link in our bio.
Pregnancy criminalization has more than tripled across the country in recent years to include more than 1,300 cases.
Reactionary forces in this state are trying to use the criminal legal system to coerce and control pregnant people and reproductive decision-making.
California lawmakers must pass #AB2223. Sign up for our email alerts to get the latest action on this bill. Link in our bio!
We have a right to abortion and we will fight for it. If you're taking to the streets today to march for reproductive freedom, we're with you.
Know your rights.
However the decision ultimately comes down, the ACLU will never stop fighting for the right to choose when and if to have a child.
Face-scanning body cameras would create a radical expansion of police powers in California.
Police abuse of surveillance technology is already a problem.
Asian and Black people continue to be 100 times more likely to be misidentified by face recognition algorithms than white men. This technology is simply too dangerous and too flawed to be in the hands of every officer in the state.
Vote YES on #SB1038, CALeg.
Take action on this bill using the link in our bio.
Reimagine public safety.
The #CareCourt proposal would lead to unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities and unhoused people.
This prevents people from seeking supportive services for fear of being institutionalized or otherwise having their rights stripped.
The proposal also feeds into the false narrative that most unhoused people have a psychiatric disorder.
🔗Read our press release on this proposal at our website or at the link in our stories.
#HousingNotCourt #CareNotCourt
The CARE Court proposal would force mental health treatment on houseless people, many of whom have not sought out treatment.
We know that coercion like this has never been effective care.
ACLU categorically opposes creating a new bureaucracy on people already traumatized by our legal system.
📄Read our joint opposition letter with 40+ other organizations who oppose this proposal at our website, or in our Links stories.
"Facial recognition software is not only inaccurate but biased, generating up to 100 times more false positives for people of color. Other states that allow police to use the technology have seen multiple Black men subjected to wrongful arrests. Californians don’t want police using algorithms as the long, and wrong, arm of the law. Ban facial recognition by law enforcement."
- @OCRegister in support of #SB1038, which would ban face-scanning body cameras.
📣Take action in support of this bill by sending a message to your lawmaker to vote YES.
🔗Action link in our bio.