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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 19h

Election Day is just four weeks away, on November 4. Our Know Your Rights guide to voting in California, available in English and Spanish, has key information including WHO can vote, HOW to register to vote, WHEN and WHERE you can cast your ballot, and tips on being an informed voter.

Know Your Rights: Your Voice, Your Vote – Voting in California | ACLU of Northern CA

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 2d

We are hopeful that our five-year settlement agreement with the city, which requires San Francisco to strictly follow its existing bag-and-tag policy, will encourage the city to redirect its limited resources away from sweeps and instead invest more in housing.

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 4d

A federal appeals court today upheld a block on Trump’s executive order that seeks to strip babies born in the United States of their U.S. citizenship. The Constitution is clear — if you are born in the United States, you’re a citizen. Another hard won victory for democracy!

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 6d

Across California, police disproportionately stop Black drivers.

Pre-text stops for minor traffic violations are a tool of racial profiling, like stop-and-frisk for driving.

These stops have little impact on public safety but can have fatal outcomes.

San Francisco was right to limit them.

Judge dismisses S.F. police union suit targeting policy that limits traffic stops

Judge Joseph M. Quinn found "legal defects" in suit attempting to undermine San Francisco's policy limiting minor traffic stops

missionlocal.org

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 7d

Read about our case United Farm Workers v. Noem
at www.aclunc.org/our-work/leg...

United Farm Workers v. Noem | ACLU of Northern CA

On February 26, 2025, the ACLU Foundations of Northern California, Southern California, and San Diego & Imperial Counties, and Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP filed a federal lawsuit against the Departme...

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 7d

On this day in 1962, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded the organization that would become the United Farm Workers. We’re proud to partner with @ufw.bsky.social in fighting back against the Trump administration's illegal, racially motivated immigration.

¡Si se puede!

Quote by United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero: "We will continue to fight together for the civil rights of every farm worker and every immigrant community. This agency and this administration will not keep terrorizing our union members, our coworkers or our neighbors unchecked. Not on our watch.” Along with a photo of a farm worker carrying a large bin of produce in a field.

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 10d

Our lawsuit filed alongside LCCRSF and @carcensf.bsky.social seeks to stop the Trump administration's cruel and unlawful practice of arresting people when they show up for their mandatory hearings in immigration court and holding them for days in inhumane conditions.

Art by Neil G. Ballard

Illustration by Neil G. Ballard showing judge filing papers and text saying "September 18: ACLU sues ICE over San Francisco conditions."

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Jennifer Stisa Granick @granick.bsky.social · 11d

ACLU SoCal is hiring! #jobs

They are looking for a Senior Staff Attorney or Staff Attorney to work full-time on our Immigrants’ Rights team, with a focus on Kern County.

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Senior Staff Attorney

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 14d

After years of having their belongings destroyed by city workers while homeless in SF, Apple Cronk and her partner fought back through the courts.

Their victory now protects ALL unhoused San Franciscans from routine property destruction.

Read Apple's story here: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Picture of Apple Conk, plaintiff in Coalition on Homelessness v City and County of San Francisco, and her partner and child, with quote saying "“Constitutional rights don’t disappear when someone is unhoused. The Fourth Amendment applies to everyone, regardless of where they sleep at night.”

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 18d

It is way past time for Vallejo city officials to do what is right — and legally required: release records from the investigation into officers who allegedly participated in the "macabre tradition" of bending their badges after shooting civilians.

State Supreme Court rejects Vallejo’s bid to conceal badge-bending report

The California Supreme Court has denied a last-ditch effort by the city of Vallejo to conceal an investigation into officers who bent their badges to mark fatal shootings.

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 18d

The Coalition on Homelessness has settled a lawsuit challenging San Francisco's practice of throwing away unhoused people’s property during encampment sweeps.

The settlement requires SF to follow its bag-and-tag policy and establishes strong accountability and oversight measures.

Lawsuit settlement agreement requirements between the Coalition on Homelessness and San Francisco.
Follow bag-and-tag policy -- give people time to reclaim belongings
Give advance notice-- before property is seized
Provide enhanced documentation -- with photographic evidence
Mandatory staff training -- for Public Works staff
Quarterly reports and monitoring-- of property seizures

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 18d

Speak up for what you believe in. It's your right.

Both the CA Constitution and the First Amendment to the US Constitution protect your right to free expression.

Learn about your rights around free speech, protest, speech on campus, social media censorship & more:
www.aclunc.org/our-work/kno...

Know Your Rights | ACLU of Northern CA

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 18d

Courthouse arrests are a cruel bait-and-switch that take advantage of people’s belief they will be treated fairly in our legal system.

The court must end this practice, which forces immigrants to choose between risking arrest at court or skipping their hearing and receiving a deportation order.

Bay Area Immigrant Advocates Sue the Trump Administration to End Courthouse Arrests | KQED

The suit also calls on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop detaining people for days in temporary holding rooms without beds and proper hygiene.

www.kqed.org

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 19d

The First Amendment has no dress code.

People should be allowed to protest in a way that makes them feel safe.

The Modesto City Council should follow the board's recommendation and repeal the anti-mask ordinance.

Modesto police review board votes to repeal protest mask ban. What will city do?

“The current ordinance is in need of revision. With political violence on the rise and more protests expected, public safety must be understood as a shared responsibility,” said a board member.

www.modbee.com

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 20d

During a recent raid in Sacramento, Border Patrol targeted Latinos by a Home Depot in violation of a court order prohibiting the agency from racial profiling and arresting people w/o a warrant in CA’s Eastern District.

We’ve asked the court to enforce the order and hold Border Patrol accountable.

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 20d

Border Patrol can’t ignore the Constitution to carry out the Trump administration’s racist mass deportation agenda.

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 21d

Remember Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil who was abducted and detained for his pro-Palestinian speech?

His story is a prime example of what can happen when a school abandons its students to the whim of the government.

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 21d

It is appalling that UC Berkeley failed to provide any notice to those whose names it reported to the federal government for unspecified reasons.

They deserved to know so that they could at least be prepared for the privacy invasions that are sure to follow.

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 21d

It’s a big problem if the sole reason that students and faculty were reported to the federal government is because they engaged in legally protected free speech activities.

The government can disagree with someone’s speech, or find it offensive, but that doesn’t mean it’s not protected.

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 21d

Reporting members of the UC Berkeley community to the government is reminiscent of the McCarthy era, when lives and careers were ruined merely because a person’s name showed up on a list.

UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe

UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and details on their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 26d

Yesterday, a court blocked DHS from brutalizing journalists, protestors, and legal observers.

A judge found federal agents used excessive force against members of the press and public during immigrants' rights protests in Southern California this summer. This is a win for the First Amendment.

Federal judge curbs DHS, LAPD actions against journalists in L.A.

The judge cited an “avalanche of evidence” that ICE and Border Patrol agents violated the rights of reporters covering protests of immigration raids.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Matt Cagle @mattcagle.bsky.social · Sep 8

San Francisco needs to answer for itself. It is obvious and widely known that sharing ALPR-collected driver locations with out-of-state agencies is illegal: after all, @aclu-norcal.bsky.social & @eff.org have sued SF's neighbor Marin County for this very conduct. www.aclunc.org/our-work/leg...

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ACLU SoCal @aclusocal.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today, in a devastating setback for communities in the southland, SCOTUS granted the Trump administration’s request to resume its racist raids across Southern California while our case continues.

We’re prepared to continue fighting for our immigrant loved ones and the Constitution.

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · Sep 8

During a July raid targeting day laborers at a Sacramento Home Depot parking, Border Patrol unlawfully stopped and arrested people in violation of the preliminary injunction in our Kern immigration lawsuit.

We’ve asked the court to enforce the order.

ACLU argues Border Patrol broke court order with high-profile Sacramento raid

Border Patrol agents were supposed to stop indiscriminate raids in LA and the Central Valley. Then they moved to Sacramento.

calmatters.org

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · Sep 5

A HUGE WIN!

“From Day 1, Secretary Noem acted with a sole intent of stripping TPS holders of their legal status whether or not there was a basis for it. This decision recognizes the illegality of that. As a result, TPS protections should go back into effect immediately.”
— Emi MacLean, ACLU NorCal

Judge halts Trump officials from ending special status for Venezuelans, Haitians

The decision to block the Trump administration from ending TPS for the migrants could shield hundreds of thousands of people from possible deportation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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