California already verifies voter identity at every stage of the process. The voter ID measure isn’t about election security. It's voter suppression pure and simple — part of Trump’s agenda to create chaos in our elections and disenfranchise voters.
Californians are way too smart to fall for it.
Proud to stand with @asianlawcaucus.org, @lwvc.bsky.social, @cacommoncause.bsky.social, @disabilityrightsca.bsky.social, @aclusocal.bsky.social, @aclucalaction.bsky.social and many others against voter suppression.
Read more about our coalition and the proposed ballot measure at this link:
California's proposed voter ID ballot measure is a voter suppression scheme straight out of the Trump playbook.
If it qualifies for the November ballot, we'll defeat it.
Join us and @lwvc.bsky.social, @commoncause.org, @asianlawcaucus.org, @disabilityrightsca.bsky.social, @aclusocal.bsky.social in the coalition to stop voter suppression in California.
02.03.2026 18:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The proposed voter ID initiative is voter suppression, pure and simple. It would erect new barriers to keep eligible California voters from exercising their fundamental right to vote and expose voters' sensitive personal information.
If it qualifies for the ballot, we will defeat it in November.
“With these subpoenas, the government is intimidating anonymous social media users who are documenting ICE in their communities. Companies are capitulating to demands instead of fighting illegal subpoenas in court,” said ACLU attorney @snowjake.bsky.social.
26.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) threaten civil liberties and have been used to target immigrants, protestors, and people seeking reproductive care. And Flock has proven itself incapable of securing ALPR location information against illegal sharing. www.kqed.org/news/1207446...
25.02.2026 21:07 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0We sued the City of Vallejo to compel officials to release the findings of a third-party investigation into the badge bending. Last July, a California appeals court ruled in our favor.
21.02.2026 03:37 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0In 2020, Open Vallejo reported that some VPD officers were bending the tips of their badges whenever they killed a civilian, a kind of badge of honor. City officials ordered an investigation but refused to make the findings public. They claimed it was confidential information.
21.02.2026 03:35 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The Society of Professional Journalists has awarded the James Madison Freedom of Information Award to our attorneys Avi Frey, Emi Young and paralegal Kassandra Dibble for their tenacious work continuing to hold VPD accountable for its long and shameful record of brutality. Congratulations Team!
21.02.2026 03:34 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
ALPRs are marketed to promote public safety, but many are waking up to the reality: they have high error rates and low efficacy for solving crimes — and worse, they can be weaponized against anyone the government chooses to target. sanjosespotlight.com/op-ed-san-jo...
19.02.2026 18:42 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0We sent a letter to several large tech companies urging them to resist unlawful DHS subpoenas — and hold to the privacy promises they've made to their users. www.aclunorcal.org/app/uploads/...
18.02.2026 20:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The government is running an unprecedented campaign to target protected speech, and some tech companies are complying without a fight. In one case, Google fulfilled a subpoena the same day it notified the user—giving them zero time to challenge it in court.
www.nytimes.com/video/busine...
Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr.
Today, the ACLU of Northern California mourns the passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson. It was our honor to work with him directly over the years on many civil rights issues in California. Through his life’s work, he articulated and advanced the vision for the multi-racial democracy that American must be.
17.02.2026 19:17 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Because when you're facing authoritarianism, do not obey in advance.
Read our open letter to Amazon, Apple, Discord, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Reddit here:
The federal government is abusing its power by targeting people who speak out against Trump administration policies online.
Alongside @eff.org we're calling on tech companies to resist DHS's lawless demands to turn over user data without a court order.
Once again, DHS withdraws an illegal and unconstitutional subpoena after the ACLU challenges it in court. This is the third time in about as many months.
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Event graphic showing scene from Minneapolis with federal immigration agents facing off against civilians.
Our legal director Shilpi Agarwal joins Monday's Commonwealth Club town hall on Bay Area immigration enforcement "After Minneapolis": what we've seen so far, what might be coming, and how we can prepare and respond.
Tickets (in-person and live-streamed) at www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-...
Whatever the federal presence looks like in the Bay Area on Super Bowl Sunday, we won’t allow it to stop us from exercising our First Amendment right to protest ICE violence.
Before you head out on Sunday, here’s what you need to know about your rights to help you stay safe.
Automatic license plate readers have both a high error rate and low efficacy for “hits” connected to crime, and no local surveillance database is ever fully insulated from ICE’s reach.
Our study "Seeing Through Surveillance" lays out these dangers and offers better alternatives for public safety.
There's no excuse for any city to be "surprised" that the federal government has accessed data collected by AI-powered Flock cameras.
04.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This surveillance tech is a "threat to undocumented immigrants or anyone opposing federal immigration actions who travel[s] through Mountain View, a chilling prospect as the U.S. is rattled by images of federal agents snatching people off the streets, brutalizing protesters and even killing..."
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We will not be silenced by ICE or anyone else in uniform. But knowing your rights — and knowing when to de-escalate at a time when federal agents are routinely violating people's civil liberties — can help you stay safe.
04.02.2026 00:49 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
For months, immigrants faced an impossible choice: show up at court and risk detention or skip it and receive a deportation order.
With our partners, we stopped ICE arrests at immigration courthouses in Northern and Central California. Now we’re pushing to end this cruel policy nationwide.
The government’s position would have allowed police to conduct searches based on the presence of small amounts of marijuana, effectively re-criminalizing marijuana use by giving law enforcement broad authority to search whenever they spotted even trace amounts. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
30.01.2026 18:25 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
After firings and retirements, just four judges are left to hear a backlog of 120,000 cases at the SF immigration court.
And the SF court’s primary office is slated to close by the end of the year, meaning most cases will be heard in Concord, which has its own roster of pending cases.
Of the six million households that rent in the state, about one million are paying more than half of their income toward rent.
Tell your California State Assemblymember it’s time to fund solutions.
We the people have the power. Join us tomorrow, January 26, for a virtual training on how to exercise your right to document ICE abuses in your community.
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Protest sign reading “We’re paying ICE billions to kill us” with American flag
Following the latest killing of a civilian by federal agents in Minneapolis, Californians are out on the streets today to demand ICE and CBP withdraw from our communities.
Use this link to call on Congress to rein in ICE’s abuses: action.aclu.org/send-message...
