Update: PETA Wins Right to Display Airport Ad Targeting SeaWorld San Diego
Updated 5:10 p.m. with SeaWorld comments. A poster asking travelers to stay away from SeaWorld is scheduled to be unveiled at San Diego’s airport Thursday, according to the American Civil Liberties...
View ArticleChief: Officers Can Use Uniform Police Cameras in Private Homes
San Diego police officers equipped with cameras on their uniforms will be allowed to record interactions with the public within private homes, Chief Shelley Zimmerman told a city panel. The chief...
View ArticleMore Refugees to Arrive as Anti-Immigrant Fervor in Murrieta Runs High
As federal officials prepare again to send busloads of undocumented immigrants to a Border Patrol station in Murrieta, the head of an immigration reform group today praised area residents who turned...
View ArticleSelf-Deportations Reversed for Some Mexicans in Suit’s Wake
A settlement reached Wednesday between civil rights groups and immigration authorities over the voluntary departures of undocumented immigrants could allow for some Mexican nationals to return to the...
View ArticleACLU, Immigration-Rights Group Sue Feds for Enforcement Info
American Civil Liberties Union foundations in San Diego and Southern California, as well as a university-based immigrant-rights group, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to force the Department of...
View ArticleJudge Allows Deported Mexicans to Return for Hearings
Hundreds, if not thousands, of non-citizens who signed so-called “voluntary return” forms in Southern California and were expelled to Mexico will be given the chance to apply to return to the U.S. and...
View ArticleACLU Demands Feds Probe SDPD Use of Force Against Mentally Ill
The local American Civil Liberties Union and 26 other groups sent a letter Wednesday to the Department of Justice calling for an investigation into the San Diego Police Department‘s use of force when...
View ArticleUpdate: PETA Wins Right to Display Airport Ad Targeting SeaWorld San Diego
Updated 5:10 p.m. with SeaWorld comments. A poster asking travelers to stay away from SeaWorld is scheduled to be unveiled at San Diego’s airport Thursday, according to the American Civil Liberties...
View ArticleChief: Officers Can Use Uniform Police Cameras in Private Homes
San Diego police officers equipped with cameras on their uniforms will be allowed to record interactions with the public within private homes, Chief Shelley Zimmerman told a city panel. The chief...
View ArticleMore Refugees to Arrive as Anti-Immigrant Fervor in Murrieta Runs High
As federal officials prepare again to send busloads of undocumented immigrants to a Border Patrol station in Murrieta, the head of an immigration reform group today praised area residents who turned...
View ArticleSelf-Deportations Reversed for Some Mexicans in Suit’s Wake
A settlement reached Wednesday between civil rights groups and immigration authorities over the voluntary departures of undocumented immigrants could allow for some Mexican nationals to return to the...
View ArticleACLU, Immigration-Rights Group Sue Feds for Enforcement Info
American Civil Liberties Union foundations in San Diego and Southern California, as well as a university-based immigrant-rights group, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to force the Department of...
View ArticleJudge Allows Deported Mexicans to Return for Hearings
Hundreds, if not thousands, of non-citizens who signed so-called “voluntary return” forms in Southern California and were expelled to Mexico will be given the chance to apply to return to the U.S. and...
View ArticleACLU Demands Feds Probe SDPD Use of Force Against Mentally Ill
The local American Civil Liberties Union and 26 other groups sent a letter Wednesday to the Department of Justice calling for an investigation into the San Diego Police Department‘s use of force when...
View ArticleACLU: Discriminatory Admissions at 20% of California Charter Schools
More than one-fifth of California charter schools have discriminatory admission policies such as illegally excluding students for having low grades or requiring parents to donate money, according to a...
View ArticleToo-Inky Pens May Erringly Record ‘No’ Vote on Mail-In Ballots
Ink used on some absentee ballots in San Diego could bleed through the paper and record a “no” vote on a controversial proposition, supporters of Measure K announced Wednesday. They said that on some...
View ArticleProtesters Gather at Lindbergh Field, LAX after Trump’s Muslim Ban
Protesters stood in front of Terminal Two at Lindbergh Field Saturday afternoon to oppose President Trump’s executive order temporarily halting immigration from certain Muslim-majority nations. And at...
View ArticleTrump’s Travel Ban Stranded Grossmont College Student in Saudi Arabia
A Grossmont College student from Yemen is back in the United States after a court injunction was placed on President Donald Trump’s travel ban, KPBS is reporting. The ban had stranded Wasim Ghaleb in...
View ArticleImmigration Raids Around Los Angeles Spark Rumors in San Diego
San Diego County is home to 170,000 undocumented immigrants, but apparently wasn’t a target in a series of federal raids that arrested hundreds across the United States. The Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleIn Rebuke to Trump, San Diego Hails Diversity with ‘Year of Solidarity’
The City Council Monday declared 2017 to be a “Year of Solidarity” in San Diego, recognizing community organizations that provide support for a diverse populace. Councilwoman Georgette Gomez said the...
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