Jake Snow

When you must accept surveillance as a condition of receiving a service (including housing): “It’s not convenience; it’s coercion.”

BREAKING: @aclu-norcal.bsky.social, Lieff Cabraser, and Tobener Ravenscroft just sued San Francisco landlords over AI-powered surveillance in people's homes.

Our homes are the last refuge of privacy. What happens there is none of your landlord's business.

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BREAKING: @aclu-norcal.bsky.social, Lieff Cabraser, and Tobener Ravenscroft just sued San Francisco landlords over AI-powered surveillance in people's homes.

Our homes are the last refuge of privacy. What happens there is none of your landlord's business.

www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-su...

VICTORY: DHS has withdrawn its subpoena demanding the identities of anonymous Instagram users who posted about ICE raids in LA. The First Amendment protects your right to record police, to share those recordings, and do so anonymously.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @snowjake.bsky.social @aclu.org

Lawsuit Challenges San Jose’s Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance | ACLU of Northern CA

Today @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @eff.org filed a lawsuit on behalf of non-profit advocacy groups challenging San Jose’s warrantless searches as violating the California Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches and right to privacy.

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The San Jose PD regularly conducts warrantless searches through its massive license plate reader database, allowing it to reconstruct detailed maps of a person’s movements through the City going back as far as a year. This poses a serious threat to communities’ privacy and freedom of movement.

Your boy has plans, I have plans too.

The case challenged UCLA's decision to dismantle the Palestine Solidarity Encampment, arguing that it violated the plaintiffs' constitutional right to free expression and that the unlawful assembly declaration that caused the arrests of 200+ people at the Encampment was unconstitutional.

BREAKING NEWS: A judge this morning allowed the lawsuit by @aclusocal.bsky.social & Walkup Melodia against the UC Regents on behalf of Palestine solidarity activists from UCLA (2 students and 2 faculty members) to proceed, marking an important preliminary victory for student speech on CA campuses.

A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.

Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Good to be a part of this litigation team.

We at @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @aclupa.org filed this motion to protect people exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out anonymously. These summonses are intolerable abuses of power by DHS.

The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.

If you're going out to protest this weekend and wondering how to protect yourself from digital surveillance, @aclu-norcal.bsky.social has a video for you (featuring, yes, me).

We draw heavily from @eff.org's fantastic Surveillance Self Defense resource, available here: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢
EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)

The legendary parking pass for Nobel Laureates is both immense and hilarious.

Today, Prof. John Clarke at UC Berkeley (who is, full disclosure, my father-in-law) won the Nobel Prize in Physics!

He also spoke out about how the Trump administration's cuts would "cripple science" and take a decade to rebuild.

The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents StopICE.net filed a motion to quash a subpoena about an Instagram video that identified a Border Patrol agent.

DHS subpoenaed Meta for information about an account that posts names and images of the ICE agents raiding our communities, but @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and advocates are pushing back.

Recording federal agents while on duty in public — and sharing that information — is our First Amendment right.

Judge halts Trump officials from ending special status for Venezuelans, Haitians The decision to block the Trump administration from ending TPS for the migrants could shield hundreds of thousands of people from possible deportation.

A HUGE WIN!

“From Day 1, Secretary Noem acted with a sole intent of stripping TPS holders of their legal status whether or not there was a basis for it. This decision recognizes the illegality of that. As a result, TPS protections should go back into effect immediately.”
— Emi MacLean, ACLU NorCal

Ninth Circuit Court Denies Stay in L.A. Raids Case Decision leaves temporary order in place, barring DHS from unlawful stop practices

"This decision is further confirmation that the administration's paramilitary invasion of Los Angeles violated the Constitution and caused irreparable injury across the region."

More on our win from this evening: www.aclusocal.org/en/press-rel...

Federal immigration arrests in SoCal are violating constitutional rights, new lawsuit argues Civil rights groups allege feds have targeted people based on skin color and blocked detainees from seeing lawyers. Officials say actions have been lawful and “highly targeted.”

"To them, if you are brown, they will hunt you down. To them, if you have dark skin, they will take you in." @mtajsar.bsky.social

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This is great — here in California, this change will help prevent out-of-state agencies and ICE from tracking drivers, including abortion-seekers and immigrants.

Flock points to a CA law that prohibits local/state agencies from sharing this info across state lines. A thread on how that came to be🧵

A fist rapidly made contact with a face, raising punching concerns.

ACLU Sues Sonoma County over Code Enforcement’s Runaway Drone Spying Program | ACLU of Northern CA

NEW lawsuit: Sonoma County is operating a runaway warrantless drone surveillance program that regularly invades residents' privacy, interrupts personal lives, and instills dread in those targeted. This violates the CA Constitution and we're taking the County to court. www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-su...

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.

Face surveillance isn't just incompatible with a healthy democracy, it's also a threat to public safety, here made worse by an unaccountable watch list, a seeming disregard to false match risks, and camera feeds accessible to an authoritarian federal government
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Impeccable vibe

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

A major victory against the world’s most notorious monger of malicious spyware.

BREAKING: In a major civil rights victory, a federal court today issued a preliminary injunction barring Border Patrol from using stop-and-arrest practices that violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

They can’t target people just because they’re Brown, or day laborers, or farm workers.

They did it, and are legends.

There is a time and a place for "et al." and this is neither the time nor the place.