News & Commentary

The ACLU News archive, dating back to 1945, documents the various forms of legalized housing discrimination leveled at Black people in Northern California, and also charts severe backlash to progress, whenever it was made. It provides a snapshot of the ways that businesses, the state, and individuals partnered to exclude Black people from the accumulation of wealth through dispossession and the denial of their means to secure a home.

We must continue the fight to ensure that Floyd’s death has not been in vain. We renew our commitment to overhauling the role of policing in American society—in the memory of Floyd, and in the memory of the incalculable other Black lives lost to police violence.

The ACLU of Northern California salutes two of our movement partners Ms. Janetta Johnson of the TGI Justice Project and Janelle Luster of Trans Heartline. These fierce, unapologetic Black trans women have been visionary leaders in the fight against the over-policing of their community.

Get out of town, or we’ll bury you in debt and seize your home - that's how Pacifica has decided to address RV dwellers.

Once again, the Trump administration is abusing its power to attack access to reproductive health care. It has already gone after insurance coverage for contraception and federal funding for family planning and tried to allow health care institutions and providers to deny patients information and treatment based on personal religious or moral beliefs.

Now the administration has set its sights directly on California’s law requiring that insurance companies treat abortion no differently than other pregnancy-related care. The Department of Health and Human Services is threatening to withhold critical federal funding, jeopardizing the health and safety of millions of Californians, if the state doesn’t bend to the Trump administration’s blatant political agenda and drop this requirement.