Press Releases

The ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties Launches Local Civic Engagement Campaigns

Nationwide, our communities are experiencing a coordinated attack on our civil rights designed to make us feel overwhelmed and powerless.
Issue Areas: Education Equity

One Year of Prop 36: Treatment Stalled, Justice Denied

Prop 36 proponents promised safety, accountability, and mass treatment. California’s getting more mass incarceration instead.
Issue Areas: Police Practices

ACLU and Partners Urge Appeals Court to Find Trump’s Deployment of Military in Los Angeles Unlawful

Free speech organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Newsom v. Trump, California’s lawsuit challenging President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and active-duty Marines earlier this summer in Los Angeles and surrounding counties.

U.S. Supreme Court Grants Stay in L.A. Raids Case

Today, the Supreme Court granted the federal government’s request for a stay (or pause) of a temporary restraining order (TRO) prohibiting federal agencies–including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)–from continuing their unlawful actions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties.    

ACLU Statement on Govt. Application to Supreme Court in L.A. Raids Case

Today, the Trump administration filed an application for review at the U.S. Supreme Court in Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem, asking the high court to lift the temporary order currently barring federal agencies—including DHS—from continuing their unlawful actions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties.

BREAKING: Court Prohibits Federal Government from Racial Profiling, Denying Access to Counsel in Immigration Raids

Temporary restraining orders granted regarding unlawful stops and access to counsel

Workers, Family Members, and Community Groups Sue DHS For Unlawful Arrest and Detention Scheme

Immigration raids violate Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights of thousands of people

The ACLUs of California Statement on Ninth Circuit Decision Allowing Federalization of California National Guard 

We are deeply concerned by the decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which grants the president sweeping authority to federalize the California National Guard without Gov. Gavin Newsom’s consent.

ACLU Statement on SCOTUS Ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a challenge brought by three transgender adolescents, their families, and a Memphis-based medical provider against a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming hormone therapies for transgender people under 18.