#ACLU SoCal

[janellemonae]

ILYSM! 🤣Happy pride! 🫶🏾🌈🥹

#aclu #aclu SoCal #pride month #happy pride #janelle Monae #the age of pleasure #lgbtqia #lgbtq

[denimbex1986]

'David Tennant & Catherine Tate Signed Limited Edition Doctor Who Cast & Crew Mug

Your bid supports: ACLU of Southern California

Donated by: Rachel Talalay

Director Rachel Talalay is donating a limited-edition Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Mug, which was her gift to the crew. 100 made, but this is one-of-a-kind because it was signed by David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

David Tennant played the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in the sci-fi series Doctor Who, and Catherine Tate portrayed Donna Noble (later Temple-Noble) as a former companion of Tennant’s doctor. Both return for the series 60th anniversary specials in November 2023.

Doctor Who is a beloved British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired.

With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilizations, and helps people in need.

Rachel Talalay. Director. Producer. Agitator. Talalay’s eclectic career spans three decades of directing and producing. Over the past five years she has directed episodes of Doctor Who, Quantum Leap, Sherlock, American Gods, Marvel’s Iron Fist, DC’s Doom Patrol, Riverdale, Sabrina, SuperGirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and The Flash. Talalay directed the first installment of the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special, The Star Beast...'

#Rachel Talalay #The Star Beast #60th Anniversary #David Tennant #Catherine Tate #Sherlock #Riverdale #ACLU SoCal

[luckydiorxoxo]

Janelle Monáe attends with ACLU SoCal, which are recognized as the Community Grand Marshal for the 2023 LA Pride Parade

#janelle monae #the age of pleasure #La pride #pride month #aclu #young black hollywood

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Seventy-one California police agencies in 22 counties must immediately stop sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with law enforcement agencies in other states because it violates California law and could enable prosecution of abortion seekers and providers elsewhere, three civil liberties groups demanded Thursday in letters to those agencies.

The letters from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU NorCal), and the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) gave the agencies a deadline of June 15 to comply and respond. A months-long EFF investigation involving hundreds of public records requests uncovered that many California police departments share records containing detailed driving profiles of local residents with out-of-state agencies.

ALPR camera systems collect and store location information about drivers, including dates, times, and locations. This sensitive information can reveal where individuals work, live, associate, worship—or seek reproductive health services and other medical care.

“ALPRs invade people’s privacy and violate the rights of entire communities, as they often are deployed in poor and historically overpoliced areas regardless of crime rates,” said EFF Staff Attorney Jennifer Pinsof. “Sharing ALPR data with law enforcement in states that criminalize abortion undermines California’s extensive efforts to protect reproductive health privacy.”

The letters note how the nation’s legal landscape has changed in the past year.

“Particularly since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, ALPR technology and the information it collects is vulnerable to exploitation against people seeking, providing, and facilitating access to abortion,” the letters say. “Law enforcement officers in anti-abortion jurisdictions who receive the locations of drivers collected by California-based ALPRs may seek to use that information to monitor abortion clinics and the vehicles seen around them and closely track the movements of abortion seekers and providers. This threatens even those obtaining or providing abortions in California, since several anti-abortion states plan to criminalize and prosecute those who seek or assist in out-of-state abortions.”

Idaho, for example, has enacted a law that makes helping a pregnant minor get an abortion in another state punishable by two to five years in prison.

The agencies that received the demand letters have shared ALPR data with law enforcement agencies across the country, including agencies in states with abortion restrictions including Alabama, Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Since 2016, sharing any ALPR data with out-of-state or federal law enforcement agencies is a violation of the California Civil Code (SB 34). Nevertheless, many agencies continue to use services such as Vigilant Solutions or Flock Safety to make the ALPR data they capture available to out-of-state and federal agencies.

California law enforcement’s sharing of ALPR data with law enforcement in states that criminalize abortion also undermines California’s extensive efforts to protect reproductive health privacy, specifically a 2022 law (AB 1242) prohibiting state and local agencies from providing abortion-related information to out-of-state agencies.

For one of the new letters from EFF, ACLU NorCal, and ACLU SoCal: https://eff.org/document/sample-alpr-demand-letter-tracy-police-department

For information on how ALPRs threaten abortion access: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/09/automated-license-plate-readers-threaten-abortion-access-heres-how-policymakers

For general information about ALPRs: https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-alpr

Agencies that received the demand letters include:

• Alhambra Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• Antioch Police Department (Contra Costa County)

• Arcadia Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• Beaumont Police Department (Riverside County)

• Brawley Police Department (Imperial County)

• Brentwood Police Department (Contra Costa County)

• Buena Park Police Department (Orange County)

• Burbank Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• Chino Police Department (San Bernardino County)

• Clovis Police Department (Fresno County)

• Cypress Police Department (Orange County)

• Desert Hot Springs Police Department (Riverside County)

• Downey Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• El Centro Police Department (Imperial County)

• El Dorado County Sheriff's Office (El Dorado County)

• Escondido Police Department (San Diego County)

• Folsom Police Department (Sacramento County)

• Fontana Police Department (San Bernardino County)

• Fountain Valley Police Department (Orange County)

• Garden Grove Police Department (Orange County)

• Gilroy Police Department (Santa Clara County)

• Hemet Police Department (Riverside County)

• Hercules Police Department (Contra Costa County)

• Hermosa Beach Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• Humboldt County Sheriff's Office (Humboldt County)

• Imperial County Sheriff's Office (Imperial County)

• Imperial Police Department (Imperial County)

• Kern County Sheriff's Office (Kern County)

• Kings County Sheriff's Office (Kings County)

• La Habra Police Department (Orange County)

• La Palma Police Department (Orange County)

• Laguna Beach Police Department (Orange County)

• Lincoln Police Department (Placer County)

• Lodi Police Department (San Joaquin County)

• Madera Police Department (Madera County)

• Manteca Police Department (San Joaquin County)

• Menifee Police Department (Riverside County)

• Merced Police Department (Merced County)

• Montebello Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• Monterey Park Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• Murrieta Police Department (Riverside County)

• Novato Police Department (Marin County)

• Oakley Police Department (Contra Costa County)

• Ontario Police Department (San Bernardino County)

• Orange County Sheriff's Department (Orange County)

• Orange Police Department (Orange County)

• Oxnard Police Department (Ventura County)

• Palm Springs Police Department (Riverside County)

• Palos Verdes Estates Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• Pasadena Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• Pittsburg Police Department (Contra Costa County)

• Rio Vista Police Department (Solano County)

• Ripon Police Department (San Joaquin County)

• Riverside County Sheriff's Department (Riverside County)

• San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (San Bernardino County)

• San Bernardino Police Department (San Bernardino County)

• San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office (San Joaquin County)

• San Pablo Police Department (Contra Costa County)

• San Rafael Police Department (Marin County)

• San Ramon Police Department (Contra Costa County)

• Seal Beach Police Department (Orange County)

• Simi Valley Police Department (Ventura County)

• Stockton Police Department (San Joaquin County)

• Torrance Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• Tracy Police Department (San Joaquin County)

• Tustin Police Department (Orange County)

• Walnut Creek Police Department (Contra Costa County)

• West Covina Police Department (Los Angeles County)

• Westminster Police Department (Orange County)

• Westmorland Police Department (Imperial County)

• Woodland Police Department (Yolo County)

That’s 71 agencies in 22 counties:

• 12 in Orange County

• 11 in Los Angeles County

• 8 in Contra Costa County

• 7 in Riverside County

• 6 in San Joaquin County

• 5 in San Bernardino County

• 5 in Imperial County

• 2 in Ventura County

• 2 in Marin County

• 1 each in El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, Placer, Sacramento, San Diego, Santa Clara, Solano, and Yolo counties

#us politics #news #electronic frontier foundation #2023 #street-level surveillance #privacy #invasion of privacy #reproductive justice #reproductive freedom #reproductive rights #reproductive health #abortions #abortion bans #automated license plate reader #automated license plate reader data #American Civil Liberties Union #American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California #American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California #location information #fascist police state #police state #police the police #California

[gendernewtral]

california has some of the strongest abortion right protections, which extend to out of state people in the state for procedures. putting some links here as a jumping point for people who need resources or want more information. most will be relevant to norcal (where im from, and where i get my state specific news from) but you can use these websites to find information for central/socal.

(note: SB 245 forbids insurance companies from charging co-pays and deductibles if you have insurance)

for more resources, here’s the full list of organizations on the california future of abortion council.

#i hope this is helpful in anyway #ive been following the bee and chronicle and CAs doing pretty good keeping standing protections #trying to sign it into the constitution #these links all work and go to the right places for me so lmk if anyone else has a hard time with them #sterling speaks

[sataniccapitalist]

#thewaronyou

#late capitalism

[janellemonae]

LA Pride was everything! F.A.M I love you so so so much. Thank you ACLU SoCal ❤️‍🔥🌈💋🫶🏾🖤

#janellemonae #janelle monáe #the age of pleasure #happy pride #LA pride #pride month #Jade Fox #ACLU SoCal

[selenagomezz]

ACLU SoCal’s Annual Bill of Rights Dinner in Beverly Hills, California - November 17, 2019

#selena gomez #sgomezedit #selenagomezedit #appearances #2019 #ap2019 #mine #edits

[redgoldsparks]

CALIFORNIA BALLOT MEASURE ENDORSEMENTS compiled by Maia Kobabe

PROP 14- YES:  Equality California, CA Democrats. NEUTRAL: ACLU.

PROP 15- YES: Planned Parenthood, Equality California, CA Federation of Teachers, Sierra Club, CA Democrats, ACLU, CA Labor Federation. 

PROP 16- YES: Planned Parenthood, Equality California, CA Federation of Teachers, Sierra Club, CA Democrats, ACLU, CA Labor Federation.  

PROP 17- YES: Planned Parenthood, Equality California, CA Federation of Teachers, Sierra Club, CA Democrats, ACLU, CA Labor Federation.  

PROP 18- YES: Planned Parenthood, Equality California, CA Federation of Teachers, Sierra Club, CA Democrats, ACLU, CA Labor Federation.  

PROP 19- YES:  CA Democrats, CA Labor Federation.  NO: ACLU SoCal

PROP 20- NO: Planned Parenthood, Equality California, CA Federation of Teachers, Sierra Club, CA Democrats, ACLU, CA Labor Federation. 

PROP 21- YES:  CA Federation of Teachers, CA Democrats, CA Labor Federation.   

PROP 22- NO:  CA Federation of Teachers, Sierra Club, CA Democrats, CA Labor Federation, SoCal ACLU. INFO: “Yes on 22” has been the most expensive ballot initiative campaign EVER in CA history. Uber contributed $50 million, Lyft $48 million, DoorDash $47 million, InstaCart $28 million, & Postmates $11 million.

PROP 23- YES:  CA Democrats, CA Labor Federation. INFO: This bill represents the latest struggle between SEIU-UHW West (a healthcare worker labor union, who raised $6.2 million to support it) and CA’s two largest dialysis businesses, DaVita and Fresenius Medical Care (who raised $93 million to oppose the bill.)    

PROP 24- NO: ACLU  NEUTRAL:  CA Democrats, CA Labor Federation. INFO: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) issued a statement taking no position on Prop 24—"EFF does not support it; nor does EFF oppose it.“ EFF described Prop 24 as "a mixed bag of partial steps backwards and forwards.”    

PROP 25- YES:  Equality California, CA Federation of Teachers, Sierra Club, CA Democrats, CA Labor Federation.  NEUTRAL: NORCAL ACLU. NO: SOCAL ACLU. ACLU STATEMENT ON PROP 25: “Although it would eliminate the predatory commercial bail industry, it would replace it with a risk assessment-based system that perpetuates racial disparities in pretrial detention, and it would grant judges and pretrial service agencies wide discretion to detain broad categories of people.”

Sources:

plannedparenthoodaction.org/voter-guide  -type in your address to see what they endorse in your state

eqca.org/elections/# -Equality CA endorses candidates who support  LGBTQ+ rights

cft.org/endorsements -CFT have endorsements for all CA districts

sierraclub.org/california/2020-endorsements -SC endorses candidates who support the environment and nature conservation

cadem.org/vote/endorsements/ aclunc.org/vote -find their full statement on Prop 25 here

calaborfed.org/2020-general-election-endorsements/ additional info from: ballotpedia.org

#california ballot #california ballot propositions #california voting guide #california ballot 2020 #california ballot initiatives

[selenas-gifs]

NOVEMBER 17 | Selena at ACLU SoCal’s Annual Bill of Rights dinner in Beverly Hills, California

#selena gomez #appearance #sgomezgifs #sgomezgif #sgomezedit #selenadaily

[arianagrands]

Selena Gomez | ACLU SoCal's Annual Bill of Rights Dinner (November 17,2019)

#selena gomez #edit #sgomezedit #dailywomen #flawlessbeautyqueens #breathtakingqueens #edit: selena #my edit

[selenafanclub]

Appearance | Selena at ACLU SoCal's Annual Bill of Rights dinner in Beverly Hills, California [November 17]

#selena gomez #sgomezdaily #sgomezedit #selenagomezedit #apperance

[ambitiousblackfeminist]

Multimedia Poetry Pieces for Those Who Love Black Girls, Women, Femmes

If you are in the business of caring for Black girls/women/femmes, you might be exhausted. There is the slow tide of justice moving in the Breonna Taylor case. There are all the misogynoiristic bottom-dwellers who emerged to tell Black woman hip hop artist and community activist Noname that she and other intelligent, justice-driven Black women need to be nicer and more accommodating to Black men who’ve never valued intelligent, justice-driven Black women in the first place. And there are the details that have emerged surrounding the tragic last days of activist Toyin Salau. This does not scratch the surface when we think of the continued attacks and murders of our trans sisters, the cultural and physical attacks on our younger sisters who are just trying to graduate high school, and my own biological sister, who is currently suing the ACLU SoCal for racial discrimination. And of course, there are the instances right out of my hometown - like the disrespect, disdain, and downright displays of discrimination recently directed at Providence City Council members Nirva LaFortune and President Sabina Matos. And oh, by the way, there is more.

It is exhausting.

That is why I want to ensure that I make my two most recent multimedia poetry videos and audio links available and easy to access in one place - in case you too are exhausted, and need some poetry and art to help you regroup. The two pieces were inspired by thoughts on community, leadership, joyfulness, Black Love, and resistance, and by the invitation to perform during the June 18, 2020 Campaign Kickoff event for Cynthia Mendes, a woman of Cape Verdean and Puerto Rican heritage who is running for office in the 2020 elections for Senate District 18, East Providence, Riverside, and Pawtucket, RI. rho

I love you/us, and I pledge to continue making art, poetry, and public statements that say so.

Sound only: https://soundcloud.com/rezaclif/reza-rites-and-cynthia-runs-preview

Sound only: https://soundcloud.com/rezaclif/reza-rites-cynthia-runs-campaign-launch

#ambitiousblackfeminist #rezarites #3amblackpoetry #poetry #3amblack #blacklivesmatter✊🏾 #sayhername #blackgirlmagic #rhodeisland #providence

[bi-trans-alliance]

WeHo, California: from the first ever city-wide bi pride in the US, hosted by the City of West Hollywood, AmBi, HRC LA, and ACLU SoCal.

#bi pride #pride #lgbtq #lgbt #bi #bisexuality #bisexual

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November 17: Selena at ACLU SoCal's Annual Bill of Rights dinner in Beverly Hills, California

#selena gomez

[selenagomezz]

ACLU SoCal’s Annual Bill of Rights Dinner in Beverly Hills, California - November 17, 2019

#selena gomez #sgomezedit #selenagomezedit #appearances #2019 #ap2019 #mine #edits