The latest news and commentary on our legislation.
Criminal Justice & Policing, Immigrant Rights
I live in California’s Central Valley: a richly diverse region, home to nearly a million immigrants, who comprise a quarter of the total population here. Over half of them are noncitizens, of which 300,000 are …
Criminal Justice & Policing, Reproductive Justice & Gender Equity
Today, Governor Newsom signed Senator Scott Weiner’s Senate Bill 357, the Safer Streets for All Act, which will help to protect all people from discriminatory arrests and harassment based on how they dress or their …
ACLU California Action fights for Californians’ bodily autonomy and the right to have children, not have children, and parent the children we have with dignity and safety. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a devastating …
Reproductive Justice & Gender Equity
CALIFORNIA – Today, the United States Supreme Court published its decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade and nearly 50 years of precedent guaranteeing the constitutional right to abortion. “The …
Racial and Economic Justice
All Californians deserve permanent, affordable housing, and healthcare that meet their needs and allow our communities to flourish. Nobody should be forced to languish, deteriorate, and die on our streets. Unfortunately, instead of focusing on …
Reproductive Justice & Gender Equity
Californians’ right to bodily autonomy—to make decisions over one’s own life and future—is a deeply held value in our diverse state.
Shilpi Agarwal is the legal director at the ACLU of Northern California. On May 2, 2022, we submitted a letter to the California legislature formally announcing our opposition to SB 1327. Here’s why. Gov. Newsom …
Education Equity
Dissatisfied with our state leaders again, we launched another petition demanding that they prioritize student health, wellness, and arts education for all students.
Racial and Economic Justice
After issuing a letter in strong opposition, groups request specific answers fore core components of proposal Sacramento, CA – With Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal for a so-called “CARE Court” set to be heard by the …
“At a time when there is an unprecedented housing crisis that disproportionately impacts Black people and other people of color, many of whom have already been entangled in failed legal and other systems, the CARE …