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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a court case over a transgender student’s fight to use the boys’ bathroom at his high school, upholding a lower court’s finding that treating transgender students differently violates federal law banning sex discrimination in schools.

State lawmakers across the U.S. are reconsidering the tradeoffs of facial recognition technology amid civil rights and racial bias concerns

Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President Donald Trump

Deborah Archer, a law professor at New York University with expertise in civil rights and racial justice, has become the first Black person in the 101-year history of the American Civil Liberties Union to be elected its president

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a public records request Monday seeking information regarding a surge of COVID-19 cases in San Diego County jail facilities, which it alleges are overcrowded and in need of an urgent inmate population reduction in order to stem the spread of the virus.

A federal judge has denied the Trump administration’s request to reinstate a rule that would require women to visit a hospital, clinic or medical office to obtain an abortion pill during the COVID-19 pandemic

A court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the border early in the Trump administration

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, more than two-thirds of the 1,000-plus parents separated from their migrant children have yet to be found. Lee Gelernt, the ACLU lawyer leading the court challenge to the Trump Administration’s family separation policy, explains why it has been so difficult to reunite these families and how the separations have caused lasting damage.

A federal judge has ordered the release of some detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California following a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility and an ACLU lawsuit saying they were not being protected from the coronavirus. But ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham says the safety precautions in place now are still not strong enough to keep them safe.

Representatives with the American Civil Liberties Union San Diego and Imperial Counties claim local law enforcement have not returned cellphones obtained after arresting at least half a dozen protesters in downtown on Aug. 28.   ACLU San Diego joined forces with Community Advocates for Just and Moral Governance and Singleton Law Firm to write a letter asking for an explanation…

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer has sued Attorney General William Barr and the Bureau of Prisons director, saying he’s being unjustly held behind bars to stop him from finishing a book that criticizes Trump

A Black former attorney for the ACLU of Southern California is suing the civil rights organization, alleging she was subjected to racism, portrayed as an “angry” woman and wrongfully fired in February for speaking out against how she was treated. “This lawsuit is a matter of urgent public concern in light of the recent murder of George Floyd and the…

The Trump administration has finalized a regulation that overturns Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care

The Southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union Sunday criticized the official response to the violence that broke out over the weekend at demonstrations against Monday’s police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. “Universal curfews and the deployment of armed National Guard in Los Angeles are the wrong way to handle disruptions in otherwise peaceful protests,” said...

The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups are suing the U.S. government over conditions at the federal prison at Terminal Island in San Pedro, where close to half of the inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus. The ACLU of Southern California, the Prison Law Office, and the law firm Bird Marella filed class-action lawsuits Friday in U.S....

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Education Department and Secretary Betsy DeVos over revised federal guidelines on how sexual assault allegations should be handled on college and K-12 campuses, claiming that the changes would “inflict significant harm” on victims and “dramatically undermine” their civil rights, NBC News reports.

Aimee Stephens, the Detroit-area funeral home worker whose firing led to a Supreme Court case that could decide the employment rights of millions of transgender and gender-nonconforming people, died Tuesday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which was working on her case. She was 59. Stephens had kidney disease for several years and required lengthy dialysis treatments. According to a GoFundMe...

Special Agent Wesley Petonak, 34, was sitting at his desk in November 2018 when he came across a PowerPoint presentation file that alarmed him. A nine-year veteran at San Diego’s Homeland Security Investigations office, Petonak knew firsthand the importance of intelligence gathering for successful immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border.  But the PowerPoint was different.  Nine of the slides...

Immigrant rights activists asked a U.S. judge Friday to block a new Trump administration policy that would keep thousands of asylum seekers locked up while they pursue their cases, instead of giving them a chance to be released on bond. Attorney General William Barr announced the policy in April as part of the administration’s efforts to deter a surge of...