Research & Publications

This report highlights the remaining barriers that conviction and incarceration impose with respect to bodily autonomy, family unity, and reproductive futures, and proposes solutions to these challenges.

In this issue: ACLU's 2024 election strategy, San Francisco Cracks down after U.S. Supreme Court homelessness decision, public records held for ransom in Shasta County, and more.

California’s immigration detention facilities are plagued by severe and ongoing human rights abuse.

In this issue: Demands for accountability for deaths of mentally ill people in California jails, fighting to uphold the historic right of taxpayers to sue public officials and agencies to stop corruption, and more.

In recent decades, surveillance has increased exponentially. It has not made us safer. On the contrary, the explosion in AI means that surveillance systems will become more powerful and more dangerous every year. This guide makes the case for non-surveillance interventions, giving policymakers the resources they need to meet this moment.

In this issue: ACLU demands accountability from California sheriffs, immigrant detention hunger striker files federal complaint against ICE, and more.

This joint report from ACLU NorCal and Catalyst California (formerly Advancement Project California) highlights strategies Sacramento County leaders should make to improve community safety and reduce systemic racial inequity in the criminal legal system. An analysis of 2019 data collected under California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) found that the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office disproportionately stops Black people for traffic violations.

In this issue: A police corruption scandal in Antioch opens the door for reform, release of historic reparations report, legislative updates, and new database on abuses and violations in California immigration detention centers.