What you helped delivered with your advocacy.

Friend –

ACLU California Action represents YOU in statewide advocacy. And thanks to your support, we had another fruitful year in the legislature. We are grateful that you called and emailed your representatives and participated in text banks – your activism reached tens of thousands of California residents. Some of you also advocated – grassroots style – in senate and assembly district offices, showed up for our town hall, and attended our annual Lobby Day.

Here are a few of the wins you helped deliver with your activism:

✔. Protecting the right to marry (ACA 5): Aligns the California Constitution with our values by placing the repeal of Proposition 8 on the November 2024 ballot. The U.S. Supreme Court is all that keeps Prop. 8 from denying California same-sex couples the right to marry and recent court decisions demonstrate a willingness to overrule its own longstanding precedents protecting civil rights. ACA 5 helps ensure that everyone in California continues to enjoy the freedom to marry the person they love.

✔. Promoting fair representation in local redistricting (AB 764): Redresses the documented abuse in local redistricting. During the 2020 redistricting cycle, politicians acted to protect their incumbency, obscured compliance data, and made it difficult for communities to participate in the process. The governor signed AB 764, ensuring voters get to choose their elected officials, rather than elected officials choosing their constituents.

✔. Keeping students in school and reducing racial disparities (SB 274): Eliminates taxpayer support for one point of entry into the school-to-prison pipeline by prohibiting suspensions and expulsions based on so-called "willful defiance." Black and Latino boys in special education account for 16 percent of willful defiance suspensions but are only six percent of students in California. The governor's signature expanded the ban on these suspensions to all California students through July 2029.

✔. Preventing federal immigration officers from fraudulent practices (SB 852): Prohibits ICE officers from exploiting California law and conducting warrantless searches of individuals on probation. ICE officers dishonestly identify themselves as probation officers to engage in home enforcement operations. The governor signed SB 852 so that immigration agents cannot act as probation officers.

❌. Denying secret police surveillance and preventing wrongful arrests (AB 642): Dangerously sought to greenlight widespread law enforcement use of facial recognition technology. We defeated AB 642 because it would have granted police discretion to transform streetlights, drones, and body-mounted cameras into community-wide surveillance networks that do not exist in California today. Already, eight Black people, including 8-month pregnant Porcha Woodruff <[link removed]>, have been wrongfully arrested.

Your Government Affairs Team is honored to stand with you as we protect, defend, and extend the rights of all Californians.

We will have ten affirmative priorities in 2024, including bills to Free the Vote (ACA 4) <[link removed]>, End Slavery (ACA 8) <[link removed]>, and put an end to racist and inhumane uses of police canines (AB 742) <[link removed]>. We look forward to continuing to fight for you next year.

In solidarity,

Carmen-Nicole Cox
Pronouns: [she/her/hers]
Director of Government Affairs, ACLU California Action


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