News & Commentary

Did you know that California pioneered the public defender system in the early 1900s? It's time for our state to step up again.

One disturbing new trend is the increase in immigration arrests at state courthouses across the country. Beyond posing public safety dangers, these arrests also threaten our constitutional rights.

We fled Guatemala looking for a safer and more peaceful life. What happened to us after crossing the border changed our lives.  

Nos fuimos de Guatemala buscando una vida pacífica. Lo que paso después que cruzamos la frontera nos cambió la vida.  

Fresno City Council Member Steve Brandau wants Fresno to turn its back on immigrants, inclusion, and human dignity.

While California already has many great laws in place, there's much work to do for civil rights and civil liberties – especially now as the Trump Administration begins its attack on the most vulnerable among us.

Trump didn’t appear to know that Douglass died 132 years ago.

It was 75 years ago that President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which began the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Tens of thousands of American citizens were declared dangerous to domestic security and forced to go to internment camps in isolated areas across the Western United States.

January 30 is Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, established by the California legislature in 2010 to commemorate the ACLU of Northern California’s client who was interned during World War II.