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ACLU-SDIC Testimony – San Diego City Council Considers Whether to Continue Surveillance Use Policies
By Blair Overstreet
ACLU-SDIC Testimony – Vista City Council Considers the Community Safety and Due Process Resolution
ACLU-SDIC Testimony – San Diego County Board of Supervisors Considers Drafting CLEAR Ordinance
By Brisa Velazquez
ACLU-SDIC Testimony – San Diego City Council Considers Due Process & Safety Ordinance
By Brisa Velazquez
San Diego Assemblymember, Advocates and Residents Discuss Reducing the Number of People Killed by Police
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES
CONTACT:
Edward Sifuentes, 619.300.6166, esifuentes@aclusandiego.org
WHAT:
Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) will join community members and advocates at a community forum to discuss legislation (AB 931) she introduced this year to update California’s standards for police use of force law. Current law allows police to use deadly force even when they have other alternatives, and even if their own gross negligence created the threat. AB 931 will change the standard to allow police officers to use deadly force only when officers have no reasonable alternatives to prevent imminent death or bodily injury.
WHO:
Norma Chávez-Peterson, Executive Director, ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties
Assemblymember Shirley Weber, (79 AD)
Theresa Smith, whose son Caesar Cruz was killed by Anaheim PD in 2009
Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, uncle to Oscar Grant, who was killed by BART Police in Oakland in 2009
WHEN:
Wednesday, July 25, 6 p.m. PT
WHERE:
Cherokee Point Elementary School
3735 38th Street
San Diego, CA 92105
Immigrant and Civil Rights Organizations Join Sen. Kamala Harris to Oppose Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy
ACLU of San Diego Joins With U.S. Senator Kamala Harris To Speak About Trump Administration’s Policy of Separating Families at the Border
Supreme Court Upholds Basic Principles of Nondiscrimination, Reverses Colorado Civil Rights Commission Decision
Neglect & Abuse of Unaccompanied Children by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (“CRCL”) is the agency within DHS that is, according to its own website, responsible for “promoting respect for civil rights and civil liberties in policy creation and implementation,” and for “investigating and resolving civil rights and civil liberties complaints filed by the public.”In response to our FOIA request, CRCL released approximately 4,600 pages of records, consisting of complaints submitted by legal service providers and immigrants’ rights advocates on behalf of migrant children detailing various forms of abuse. The CRCL records also consist of internal agency records documenting the limited investigations it undertook.The International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago School of Law has written a report highlighting the experiences of migrant children (often asylum-seekers) who suffered verbal, physical, or sexual abuse from CBP officials. The appendix contains all of the original records cited in the report.REPORT: Neglect & Abuse of Unaccompanied Children by U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionAppendix: CRCL documents discussed in Report1-Pager Summary: English & SpanishFor the full set of CRCL documents, please visit http://bit.ly/cpbclcrdox
By Mitra Ebadolahi
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