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When "Casey A." graduated from high school at the Challenger Memorial Youth Center, he couldn't read a single word on his diploma. He didn't know what a diploma was, even though he was handed one," Mark D. Rosenbaum, chief counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's first class action lawsuit on behalf of immigrant detainees with severe mental disabilities was filed in a federal court in Los Angeles late Monday by a coalition of legal organizations led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU/SC), Public Counsel and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. The lawsuit argues that the U.S. government must create a system for determining which non- citizens lack the mental competence to represent themselves in immigration proceedings and to appoint legal representation to those with severe disabilities. Others participating in the lawsuit include the ACLU, the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties, Northwest Immigration Rights Project and Mental Health Advocacy Services.
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THE American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California was conceived in Pasadena in 1923 and born in Los Angeles in 1924, and that intimate entanglement of the San Gabriel Valley and the organization has continued ever since. This coming Sunday, Oct. 3, when the Pasadena-Foothills ACLU celebrates at Neighborhood Church the accomplishments of Ramona Ripston, the admired retiring CEO of the Southern California regional organization, it will be another milestone in a continual relationship. We'll also honor Pasadena Star-News Editor Frank Girardot that afternoon with the chapter's Unsung Hero Award for his relentless pursuit of greater openness in Pasadena City Hall that led to a formerly secret police-chief selection panel being made public.
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Taking exception to the announcement that the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California would present its "Religious Freedom" award to Marayati, Reverend Regas, Rabbi Beerman, Rev. J. Edwin Bacon and Rev. Altagracia Perez, Bellman posted an open letter to the local ACLU's executive director, Ramona Ripston. Orange County Muslims and Arab Americans staged a mass rally July 29 on a section of Brookhurst in Anaheim known as the Gaza Strip. Berlin targeted AP in Israel for censoring, withholding and eliminating stories that document Israel's brutal assaults on the Palestinian population-such as the footage taken by a Palestinian cameraman on Oct. 17, 2004, when a jeep patrol rolled into the Ballata Camp and a teenage boy was deliberately shot in the stomach.
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ORANGE - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California announced a federal lawsuit today against Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and the city of Orange's police department, challenging an injunction against a street gang. The proposed class action alleges that prosecutors and police set up a dragnet to arrest a few gang members at the expense of many more innocent citizens.
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Others who supported [William Bratton] included current Urban League front man Blair Taylor who pointed to his "integrity" and "ability to implement solutions" and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who said the "city is a much safer place than it was four and half years ago before Bratton took over the department." Ramona Ripston, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California also commended Bratton, saying he had been committed to reform but criticized the lack of action on racial profiling and the crackdown on Skid Row.
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PASADENA - The retiring Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California will be honored at the Pasadena-Foothills Chapter of the ACLU at their Eleventh Annual Garden Party. Ramona Ripston will be retiring after 38 years of working with the ACLU.
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A civil-rights group contends that hundreds of government documents released on last summer's Border Patrol raids in inland areas "seem to confirm the agency targeted people based on race,' though border officials vigorously dispute that claim. The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed a lawsuit in December in an effort to obtain documents about a Temecula-based Mobile Patrol Unit that arrested more than 400 illegal immigrants and migrants in June 2004 in cities including Ontario, Fontana, Corona and Escondido.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's first class action lawsuit on behalf of immigrant detainees with severe mental disabilities -- detainees who are defenseless in a system they cannot comprehend -- was filed late Monday by a coalition of legal organizations led by Public Counsel, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Others participating in the suit include the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project, the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial County, Northwest Immigrants' Rights Project, and Mental Health Advocacy Services. The suit asks a federal district court here to order the U.S. government to create a system for determining which non-citizens lack the mental competence to represent themselves and...
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ONTARIO - The city has reached a $2.75 million settlement with 125 of its police officers who sued over being secretly videotaped while dressing in the department's men's locker room. The class-action lawsuit was brought on behalf of the 125 officers by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the law firm of Hadsell, Stormer, Keeny, Richardson and Renick.
