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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
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: So SDPD, Let Photojournalists “Speak”
San Diego, CA – Concerned that the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) may be interfering with the First Amendment rights of photojournalists to record events occurring in public, the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties sent a letter to Police Chief William Lansdowne emphasizing the strong legal protections enjoyed by journalists and members of the public alike.
New Web App Asks Californians to Weigh Incarceration Spending Against Cuts to Education, Social Services, Public Safety
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Constitution Protects All People from Unjustified, Deadly Force at the Border
Should a border patrol agent who kills an unarmed 15-year-old be allowed to escape judicial review, because the agent was on the U.S. side of the border and the child was over the line in Mexico? The ACLU says, “No,” in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court in Texas today. The brief argues that the youth’s family has a valid constitutional claim in its excessive force lawsuit against the government.
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