A group of California parents and students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Compton school district alleging a pattern of abuse and racial profiling of Latinos by school police.
Continue reading...The Los Angeles Times reports that the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has announced that it has reached settlements with the city of Glendale and the Glendale Unified School District on behalf of eight Latino students who alleged that officials engaged in racial profiling and illegal searches during a 2010 incident at Hoover High School.
Continue reading...The New York Times reports that a U.S. District Court in Arizona has rejected a request by a coalition of civil rights groups that the court strike down a provision in the state’s immigration law requiring authorities to verify the status of people who they suspect are in the country illegally.
Continue reading...The Glendale News-Press reports that the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU-SCA) has entered into preliminary negotiations with the City of Glendale and Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) regarding a lawsuit alleging racial profiling of Latino students at Hoover High School.
Continue reading...The America Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU-SCA) has filed suit, says the Los Angeles Times, against Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) administrators, the Glendale and Los Angeles police departments and the Los Angeles County Probation Department alleging 55 Latino high school students were illegally detained, searched and interrogated in what the ACLU characterizes as “a textbook case of racial profiling.” Glendale Unified School District spokesman Steven Frasher defended the operation, describing it as an educational effort to deter students from falling into gangs.
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