Court Cases

The Marin County Sheriff’s Office has shared and transferred the sensitive location information of its residents and the people who travel through its boundaries with federal, state, and local agencies across the country, including federal immigration agencies. The Sheriff collects this info...

Every day, people beep their horns to support candidates or causes, greet friends or neighbors, summon children or co-workers, or celebrate weddings or victories. This expressive conduct is common, widespread, and protected by the First Amendment.

The California legislature enacted Cal. Penal Code § 1437.7, which protects the rights of immigrants by allowing them to ask courts to vacate convictions when they were deprived of the right to meaningfully understand, knowingly accept, or defend against immigration consequences of the conviction.

The lawsuit argues that the Sheriff has violated the California constitution by failing to provide for the reasonable safety and medical needs of people who are incarcerated in the San Diego County jails, acting in a manner that is “deliberately indifferent” to those needs, in violation...

Police Seizure of Protesters’ Cell Phones

As the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading aggressively across the United States in Spring 2020, it hit jails, prisons, and detention centers with particular virulence. The Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC), which detains both individuals held by the U.S. Marshals’ Service (USMS) facing federal...

The COVID-19 pandemic poses an acute threat to the health and safety of people in congregate settings—places where large groups of people live, eat, and share common spaces in close proximity to one another. The populations at U.S. ICE detention centers across the country are no exception.