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Our latest report outlines five public policy issues L.A. County advocates and community members tracked during L.A. D.A. Nathan Hochman’s first year in office that reveals a pattern of extreme and debunked approaches to crime, many that will increase mass incarceration.

Read: aclusocal.co/48hWw5u

Know Your Rights | Enforcement at the Airport | ACLU At the border, you are likely to encounter Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, and you may encounter Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents. HSI is part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Know your rights in these scenarios.

If you’re flying this holiday season, know your rights before heading to the airport. 

On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the trans people lost to violence in the U.S. this year.

Widespread poverty, homelessness, and discrimination makes trans people 4x more likely to experience violence than the average person.

We shouldn’t have to live in fear to be who we are.

Federal judge orders government to stop blocking immigrant detainees from having access to lawyers In her ruling this week, Judge Frimpong said that lawyer visiting hours at B-18, which is in the basement of a federal building, have been closed down repeatedly without letting lawyers know, despite ...

BREAKING: Today, in a win for our constitutional rights, a federal judge ruled that DHS and ICE likely violated the Fifth Amendment by denying detained immigrants’ lawful access to their attorneys.

As the southland braces for epic storms, those most at risk—houseless residents— remain overlooked.

This weekend is an urgent reminder: officials must end their scapegoating of unhoused neighbors and invest in affordable housing for all struggling community members.

People held in ‘decrepit’ California ICE facility sue over ‘inhumane’ conditions Lawsuit against US government alleges ‘life-threatening’ medical neglect and says residents frequently go hungry

The Trump administration is holding people in inhumane conditions in California's largest immigrant detention center.

We sued this administration to challenge these abusive and harmful practices.

Jane Fonda to Receive Inaugural Impact Entertainment Visionaries Award From ACLU SoCal and SIE Society (Exclusive) The actress and her recently relaunched Committee for the First Amendment will be honored at the Impact + Profit 25 Conference, set for Dec. 4 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

We are honored to recognize Jane and this new generation of creators united to defend freedom of expression in Hollywood.

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From her early involvement with the ACLU to her decades of advocacy for civil liberties, justice, and equality, Jane Fonda has used her public voice to stand firmly for constitutional freedoms—even when doing so required extraordinary courage.

Tech CEOs are not elected officials, yet their political influence is hard to overlook.

Join us this Wed., Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. PT at the L.A. Central Library where we’ll discuss how tech has overtaken our lives, our personal data and our democracy.

RSVP: lfla.org/event/the-ag...

UCLA suppressed student and faculty freedom of speech. So, we sued them. Following the violent destruction of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the UCLA campus, students and faculty members speak out.

To learn more about the Blair v Regents case, check out our interview with three of the plaintiffs. www.aclusocal.org/en/news/ucla....

Last year, UC administrators violently destructed the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the UCLA campus due to its speech content. Thankfully, in an early win for students’ rights, a judge recently allowed our case to proceed.

Armed US immigration agents drive off with toddler after arrest of father ‘Devastated’ family demands answers after one-year-old driven by armed agents from LA Home Depot parking lot

After arresting a U.S. citizen in a Home Depot parking lot, armed immigration agents drove off with his one-year-old daughter.

The Trump administration's mass deportation machine puts every one of us in danger.

The world is watching the United States government attack the constitutional and human rights of its own people. We will hold the Trump administration accountable, whether they show up to defend their human rights record or not.

Q & A: Orr v. Trump | American Civil Liberties Union Following a January 2025 Executive Order from President Donald Trump, the State Department began barring people from obtaining passports with a sex designation on them that is not the same as their sex assigned at birth. In response, the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit challenging the State Department's policy on behalf of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people.

The Supreme Court this week allowed the State Department to enforce President Trump's anti-trans passport policy while our lawsuit challenging his executive order moves through the courts.

We'll keep this page updated as our legal experts learn more.

Deployments At Our Doorstep | American Civil Liberties Union As federal agents and military troops arrive in their cities across the country, communities have used pop culture references, humor, and irreverence as an act of resilience.

The Trump administration has deployed troops and federal agents to cities across the country.

We're joined by ACLU experts from these communities to discuss how people are fighting back. 

With special guest, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social, author and former NFL football player who has been an indefatigable champion for LGBTQ+ rights. Chris went viral when he was arrested for peaceful civil disobedience at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting.

RSVP: aclusocal.org/we-keep-us-safe

While attacks on arts justice and our freedom to read are not new, activists today are using innovative methods to fight back.

Join us Tues., Oct. 28, 6 p.m. PT, where we’ll explore what collective safety looks like in the arts and in our personal expression.

RSVP: aclusocal.org/we-keep-us-safe

Make sure you know your voting rights this special election.

Got questions? Call the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE to report any complaints regarding the voting process leading up to and on Election Day.

ACLU Releases Legal Guide To Defend People Criminalized For Being Homeless The ACLU of Southern California has released a legal guide to help attorneys defend unhoused clients against growing criminalization.

The solution to homelessness is housing, not handcuffs.

The @aclusocal.bsky.social has created a guide with trauma-informed strategies to help attorneys defend unhoused people in court.

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

This administration's playbook is as cruel as it is obvious.

We are seeing the same attacks on free speech and public dissent when our community members protest and document the ICE raids across the southland.

Attacking protesters and journalists doesn’t work in L.A., and it won’t work in Chicago.

¡Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo!

BREAKING: Late last night, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deploying any out-of-state federalized National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

This is a win for the rule of law.

Hoy, en una decisión devastadora para las comunidades del sur de California, la corte suprema accedió a la solicitud de la administración de Trump a resumir sus redadas racistas mientras nuestro caso continúa.

Estamos continuar luchando por nuestra comunidad inmigrante y la Constitución.

Today, in a devastating setback for communities in the southland, SCOTUS granted the Trump administration’s request to resume its racist raids across Southern California while our case continues.

We’re prepared to continue fighting for our immigrant loved ones and the Constitution.

As the administration continues to threaten the fabric of our democracy, we urge the courts to continue safeguarding our rights.

In a victory for Californians – and everyone who has rallied against Trump's unlawful military deployments, a federal judge rejected the administration's assertion that it could deploy troops anywhere government personnel or federal property could be harmed.

Trump deployment of military troops to Los Angeles was illegal, judge rules in blistering opinion A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s deployment of U.S, military troops to Los Angeles during immigration raids earlier this year was illegal.

Our communities deserve to be safe and free from military intimidation.

Today, a federal court rightly rejected the Trump administration's deployment of troops in Los Angeles.

Reading up on the Chicano Moratorium of 1970 to prepare for the context of a 55th anniversary this weekend. Several great books, but this passage stuck out. Written by Hunter S Thompson after Ruben Salazar was killed by LASD deputies there 55 years ago today. From “Strange Rumblings in Aztlan”: