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Communities Not Jails
Where we spend our money says a lot about our priorities. That’s why California’s legislature must reject the governor’s plan to spend $250 million more taxpayer dollars to build new jails.
By Margaret Dooley-Sammuli
Hey DOJ: SFPD Text Scandal Shows Review Isn’t Enough. Please Help.
Today we sent a letter to the Department of Justice. Racist and homophobic texts by SFPD officers again demonstrate why a review of department policies alone—with no enforceability—is not enough. We need a pattern and practice investigation.
By Alan Schlosser
Do Fresno Police Have a Secrecy Problem?
One day after Fresno PD’s fourth shooting this year, the department released body cam footage of police killing Freddy Centeno last September and claimed that the shooting was justified. But why is the shooting still shrouded in secrecy?
By Novella Coleman
Long After Rodney King, We Need Transparent Policing More Than Ever
In the early hours of March 3, 1991, George Holliday stepped onto his balcony and saw police begin to beat a motorist on the street below. He then pulled out a video camera and filmed an incident that would become synonymous with police violence and misconduct: the beating of a young African American man named Rodney King by several Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers. News stations across the country broadcast the footage of King lying on the ground as officers viciously kicked and struck him repeatedly with nightsticks.
By Peter Bibring
VICTORY: Butte County Rejects Unfair Tax on Its Most Vulnerable Families
Butte County was one of 32 CA Counties that submitted bids for state financing to build new jails. Butte was the only county to try to use Inmate Welfare Fund money to pay the county’s required contribution.
By Steven Meinrath
In Super Bowl City and Beyond, SF Must Affirm that #BlackLivesMatter
As thousands of people from around the country pour into Super Bowl City and the Bay Area, it’s important to remind the city of San Francisco: Black Lives Matter.
By Abdi Soltani
ACLU of Northern California Statement on Hernan Jaramillo’s Death in Oakland Police Custody
The ACLU of Northern California is outraged by the death of Hernan Jaramillo, who died in 2013 while Oakland police officers restrained him and ignored his cries of “I can’t breathe.” Footage of the incident was released this week by the Oakland Tribune.
By Abdi Soltani
Dirtbox Over Disneyland? New Docs Reveal Anaheim’s Cellular Surveillance Arsenal
Anaheim Police have spent almost a decade secretly building an inventory of powerful cell phone surveillance devices and making them available to neighboring cities in Orange County, Documents obtained [MC1] by the ACLU of California reveal.
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