The 2020 Presidential election was a divisive pinpoint in our democracy, with the necessary assessment on election administration and their safety. Harassment, intimidation, and even threats against election workers came at an all-time high on a national level, and there is much concern for 2024....
You might've heard of this phrase before: “But we're a family!” I know that I have. It's the way mistreatment or abuse can be excused, and it's easier to accept despite the anger that's built up. We can only imagine children who endure abuse from a sibling or a peer at school and viewing bruis...
Last May, the United Farm Workers Foundation and ACLU Northern California filed a lawsuit with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Martínez Aguilasocho Law, Inc. to go against the County of Kern and Kern County Supreme Court, for systematically denying poor misdemeanor defendants their constitutiona...
Violence in a relationship will always be a difficulty to navigate. Knowing where to go for help, leaving the relationship safely, and getting back to your own life are all big steps to take from a vulnerable position. Heterosexual relationships are the default example of examining intimate partn...
Relationships between a patient and a physician in general include the right to medical confidentiality. The exceptions that would break that confidentiality are usually if there is notice of risk of losing their own life or threats being made to harm another person. This is also applied in the s...
The juvenile justice system isn't anything juvenile or justice alike. Children become criminalized without agency, and the lack of research of juvenile detention centers makes it difficult to know where things are leading. According to the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin...
In July 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court declared the “photographing and fingerprinting” procedure as unconstitutional with applying the 4th Amendment, a tactic that the Grand Rapids Police Department had been doing for over a decade and violated two young Black boys. Yeah, what am I talking abo...
Under the Clinton Administration in the 90's, curfew laws were implemented in many cities and states all throughout the country. Want to guess why? To combat and prevent further “gang violence” and drugs on the street. Ultimately, to stop crime in neighborhoods. To me, I think that most kids enj...
It's rare to say for the average American that they don't recognize a security camera at a grocery store or are not aware of how many police departments are required to wear body-cameras while on duty. You have most likely normalized surveillance as an everyday encounter and let that occurrence p...
Familiarity with police accountability doesn't almost seem familiar in policy or within the justice system and that's because of qualified immunity. It refers to the protections that government agents, including police officers, from liability of their misconduct or abuse of power, even when viol...
You can visit social media for a short period of time and eventually find someone talking about 988 on their account story or recommending the number to a person in the comments without even knowing them. We all know what 911 is in the United States, and the popularization of 988 has skyrocketed ...
AB 256, known as the California Racial Justice Act for All that is a statute in the state of California, expands the limitations of the original Racial Justice Act passed in 2011. Its purpose is to allow persons with convictions or judgements prior to January 1, 2021 to petition the court and see...
It has now been the 7th week of the WGA strike, and negotiations between SAG and DGA separately with AMPTP have been ongoing since earlier this month. Contracts are ending, the turmoil has not been shifted, and WGA has been strong and tightknit with their solidarity. WGA is not only associated wi...
Juneteenth is a time where as a collective, we can honor and remember those whose lives were entrapped with injustices and their fight to gain freedom in a country that never initially supported them. To the actual day, those that were enslaved and later free, created their own celebration by tak...
On June 8th this past Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the map of Alabama had been structured under the guide of gerrymandering for voting purposes – making the impact of Black voters a dissipating contributor that matters. According to Ari Berman, a correspondent from Mother Jones, “Alabam...
What is the prop intended for? Proposition 47 was enacted into legislation in 3024 by the state of California and reduces certain felonies into misdemeanors. Those felonies would include nonviolent property (theft under 950 dollars) and drug-related crimes, ones that have made the California pri...
To protect and serve isn't exactly a response you can confidently say as police brutality rates have been on a constant high throughout the country. Instead, you can automatically respond with how large the amount of settlements are ongoing and continue to put cities in debt. I think all of us at...
On Tuesday, the Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for the LGBTQ+ community statewide. With more than 417 anti-LGBTQ bills being introduced by Republicans to Congress already this year, according to the ACLU. 75+ bills have passed so far, including legislation that support curric...
If there is anything to say about the death penalty, it's the case of Richard Glossip. He was just halted an execution of stay by the Supreme Court but remains on death row. He's been in prison since 2004, and his life has been reliant on a pedestal for a crime he didn't commit. The justice syste...
An open secret that has been brought up through the tragedies of Breonna Taylor's and Amir Locke's passings conflicts with our right to the Fourth Amendment. No-knock warrants are basically a form of authority that law enforcement is granted with via a warrant, to enter the premises without givin...
It's been almost 3 years since I came out as bisexual (now identify as queer), and I think there have been a lot of things I have learned along the way about myself and how presentation is a default expectation that seems to underly with how sexuality and gender are always needing a direct explan...
Whether you are at the office, lying on your bed, or enjoying a nice dinner with the family, you are most likely on your phone either sending a text message or making an email. I don't think it is something none of us can avoid at this day and age, but it's an universal reality where we simultane...
Since May 5th, the Writers Guild of America has been on strike from Los Angeles to New York City in protest of their negotiations not being met by the Alliance of Motion and Television Producers. Contracts expire every three years, and the demands for their renewal included higher paid wages that...
Perpetrators of elder abuse can include family members, healthcare workers, nursing living facilities, and retirement facilities. Elder Justice Policy reports that 84% percent of Medicare claims were failed to be reported by skilled nursing facilities to state survey agencies as required by feder...
The elderly community includes 55.8 million people in the United States, taking up of 16.8% of the population. In the Central Valley, there are a total of 200,000 adults ages 60 and over, and that number is expected to grow dramatically by 2030. There is also one true fact we all face: We are all...
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