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Chapter Alerts

Read the 2011 Issue of Sonoma Civil Liberties

Sonoma Chapter Honored By ACLU of Northern California

ACLU says: Stop The Car Impounds

ACLU-NC Issues Report on the High Costs of Enforcing Immigration Laws By Local Law Enforcement.

Read How Taxpayers Can Save Money Enforcing Immigration Laws: The Recommendations

Help California Save $450 Million a Year and Reduce Prison Overcrowding! Send a message to Governor Brown and your legislators asking that possession of small amounts of drugs be reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor.

Help Stop the Teaching of Inaccurate Sex Education in Sonoma County Schools

New ICE Policy Affects ACLU Lawsuit

Maggie Coshnear receives 2011 Mario Savio Student Activist Award

$500 to 2012 Sonoma County Student winner of Mario Savio Student Activist Award. Nominations now being accepted.

Nominations for Jack Green Civil Liberties Award wanted

Execution Stopped!

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3rd Monday of the Month
7pm
Peace & Justice Center
467 Sebastopol Ave.
Santa Rosa

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Daniel Ellsberg Film, Author Talk & Reception

Friday, January 27 At the Sebastopol Community Cultural Center Annex

Sunday, January 29, French Garden Restaurant is hosting an intimate dinner/fundraiser with Daniel Ellsberg

(Contact French Garden Restaurant & Bistro at 707 824-2030 for tickets - $50)

Ellsberg will be present at both events to discuss critical issues of our day with the audience.

Ellsberg Events Info

Welcome New Board Members

Roland Jacopetti

Omar Figueroa

SAVE THE DATE - ACLU Annual Dinner

April 27, 2012 at the Friedman Center, Santa Rosa.

Keynote Speaker: Jeanne Woodford, Former Warden of San Quentin and Executive Director Death Penalty Focus.

Monthly Meetings: Join us the third Monday of each month at 467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa at 7:00 PM.

The ACLU of Sonoma County is still looking for more board members. To submit nominations for the board. For nomination info click here.

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Our Mission

Sonoma County members of the American Civil Liberties Union have been active since the mid-1950s. At the end of 1966 members began to organize to form a permanent chapter. On December 14, 1968, the Sonoma Chapter officially became an ACLU chapter, dedicating itself to protect the civil liberties, civil rights and freedoms guaranteed by the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The ACLU of Sonoma County is part of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has fought to protect and expand civil liberties for all people throughout the United States since 1920, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, which was founded in 1934.

The Sonoma Chapter was awarded the 2002 and 2010 Dick Criley Activism Award by the ACLU of Northern California. The award was created to honor the ACLU Chapter that has done the most to activate their members. The ACLU of Northern California has honored chapter board members Steve Fabian (1988) and Judith Volkart (2003) for their activism with the Lola Hanzel Courageous Advocacy Award.