As part of our work, the ACLU of Southern California issues reports, position papers and advocacy materials that study and note developments in civil liberties. Below is a listing of some of our publications organized by issue.
The seeds sown by the Bush administration's unprecedented abuse of power found fertile soil in Southern California, and our staff faced some of the greatest challenges to constitutional rights and civil liberties in the nation: National Security Agency spying, indefinite detentio
November 1, 2006
On nearly every front, this has been one of the ACLU of Southern California's most difficult years in our duty to protect civil rights and civil liberties.
November 1, 2005
Guided by principles, not polls, we do the hard, unglamorous work of protecting those who are suffering injustice or whom the system has failed.
November 1, 2004
We envision a society that invests in very individual by providing all children with a good education and other necessities for success. No society can neglect such an investment without reaping the terrible fruit of exclusion: division, despair, and fear.
November 1, 2003
Since September 11, 2001, our government has embarked on a wholesale revision of our basic rights: discrimination against immigrants, detentions, domestic spying, and government secrecy have been carried out in the name of security.
November 1, 2002
Mindful of the inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty, which reads in part, "I lift my lamp beside the golden door," we seek to open the door of opportunity ever wider by linking civil liberties to social justice.
November 1, 1999