Here's the latest on our work in January.

Hi ACLU Supporter –

2023 has barely begun, but our work is in full swing in courtrooms and legislatures across the country. Here's a quick update on our latest – critical work for people's rights that your activism and support helped push forward:

1. Challenging systemic racism in California's criminal legal system

The California Racial Justice Act, passed in 2020, has the ambitious goal of eliminating racial discrimination in the criminal legal system. The ACLU, ACLU of SoCal, and our co-counsel are bringing one of the first lawsuits under the new law to challenge a prosecutor's decision to seek the death penalty for our clients Russell Austin and Michael Mosby, both currently on death row in California. Hearings are ongoing.

2. Exposing one of the largest government surveillance programs in recent memory

This month, we joined the ACLU of Arizona in releasing more than 200 documents we obtained from a public records request seeking information on the state of Arizona's role in amassing a huge database of people's private financial data from across the country. The documents expose how the state sent at least 140 overbroad and illegal subpoenas to money transfer companies to compel them to turn over customer data, built a database of more than 150 million records, and gave more than 12,000 law enforcement officers from federal, state, and local agencies across the country virtually unfettered access to this private information.

3. Fighting to restore asylum rights lost under the Trump administration's Title 42 policy

The ACLU and more than 200 other civil rights and immigrants' rights groups sent a letter to President Biden this week calling on his administration to reverse its plan to force asylum seekers to seek protection in other countries before applying in the United States, a version of a transit ban first implemented under the Trump administration and successfully challenged by the ACLU.

4. Launching our new legislation tracker for anti-LGBTQ bills in state legislatures

Last week, we launched a nationwide tracking system to publicly document and categorize anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures across the country. Our goal is to help advocates, organizers, and allies take action against these bills – most of which target trans youth – while also revealing these proposals for what they are: a coordinated and political attack on LGBTQ people nationwide.
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Stay tuned for more updates as we head into February. The fight for civil liberties this year will only escalate – and we'll need you with us as it does.

Thanks for your support,

The ACLU Team

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