Dear Friend and Partner of the ACLU:

Too often in an election year, we’re intensely aware of the stakes, but the We envision a society that invests in every individual by providing all true dimensions and implications of our choices are obscured by the political children with a good education and other necessities for success. No games that our leaders play in order to stay in power: personal attacks, society can neglect such an investment without reaping the terrible fruit of character-related non-issues, and poll-tested pap. exclusion: division, despair, and fear.

We hunger for vision; instead, we get political commercials. Finally, we believe that our success as a society ultimately rests on caring for each other and on developing a culture of shared responsibility. We are We yearn for a glimpse of the kind of society we hope to become, but the fi ghting for a society whose response to a hearing-impaired boy whose family headlines and talking heads drag us through an ugly landscape of fear, doubt, can’t afford a hearing aid and who is falling further and further behind in and distraction. school as a result will no longer be, “Tough luck.” We’re fi ghting for a society that no longer tells a nonviolent Three Strikes offender, “You’re trash. We’re Much, indeed, is at stake in this election year, much more than mere politics. throwing you away.” What are our hopes for the world we inhabit, for the prospects of our children, for the future of our nation’s experiment in democracy? Respect for and belief in our common humanity is the thread that runs through all of our work. Together, we’re creating a society that’s based on Sadly, we will hear few meaningful attempts to address this question during openness, inclusion, and compassion. Thank for your visionary contribution the election, but as part of a community dedicated to the core values of to a better California. liberty, justice, and equality, ACLU supporters and advocates do share a vision of a better society. This report on our work in the last year illustrates Sincerely, the scope and strength of our vision.

What kind of society are we trying to bring about here in California and across the country?

The ACLU is working toward a more open and vibrant society by Jarl Mohn Gary Williams Ramona Ripston countering the atmosphere of fear advanced by the current administration ACLU/SC ACLU/SC ACLU/SC with a vision of a stronger democracy and a renewed commitment to our Foundation Chair President Executive Director rights and liberties, by defending core values of religious liberty and free speech, and by fi ghting any efforts on the part of the majority to target or exclude members of minority groups. an open& vibrantsociety 5 Freedom In an Era of Yellow, Orange, and Red

In times of war and heightened fear, Privacy is a necessary ingredient of freedom of conscience Pomona to Los our nation’s commitment to an open and freedom of expression. A government that monitors Angeles. Efforts to and free society has often faltered. its citizens’ reading habits or business records chills their de-fund Section 215 Since it was founded, the ACLU of exercise of their basic freedoms. The ACLU of Southern resulted in a deadlock. Southern California has recognized Today, in an era when California, working closely with Californian librarians, this danger and fought with color-coded security alerts are used to instill our national offi ce, and Congressperson Bernie Sanders, Our fi ght against increased vigilance during such eras identifi ed Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act as a piece of the the closing down of fear and manipulate the political environment, A packed crowd listened to Laura Murpy, Bob Barr, & Gro- to preserve and extend a vision of an the ACLU family of organizations has been Ashcroft agenda that was particularly vulnerable to public American society ver Norquist discuss the USA PATRIOT Act at our Town open and culturally vibrant society. the undisputed leader in organizing opposition backlash and political challenge. Section 215 allows the in the face of fear Hall meeting During the red scares that started in to the government’s efforts to roll back civil federal government unprecedented new powers to scrutinize continued in other the 1930s and extended through the liberties. Our progress over the last three individuals’ private library and other business records, neighboring policy arenas, as we battled the efforts of anti- McCarthy years, the ACLU battled years has been steady and unfaltering, and our without adequate review, and with no notifi cation. immigrant forces in Congress to pass the CLEAR Act. The blacklists, fought to allow third dedication has yielded critical shifts in popular CLEAR Act proposed to tie federal funding of local police parties (even unpopular ones such opinion and in the political climate. We developed a website, posters, and bookmarks to educate departments to their participation in the enforcement of as the Communist Party) access to the public in California about how the PATRIOT Act federal immigration law, an area local police have almost the ballot, and stood up to measures A signifi cant test of our efforts came in early jeopardizes their privacy. We assisted Congressman Sanders universally avoided because of its profoundly negative that sought to eliminate freedom of 2003, as Attorney General Ashcroft prepared in his efforts to publicize his anti-215 legislative campaign effect on their ability to police immigrant communities and conscience, such as loyalty oaths. to launch a second even more intrusive version in California. And in 2003, we continued to highlight ensure the greatest possible safety to all residents within of the PATRIOT Act, known popularly as such dangers with a town hall meeting at Patriotic Hall in their jurisdiction. Situated in the heart of an immigrant- One of the proudest moments in our affi liate’s history was our “Patriot 2.” The ACLU of Southern California, along with other downtown Los Angeles, held with the League of Women rich metropolis, the ACLU of Southern California played a stand during World War II against the detention of Japanese ACLU affi liates nationwide, joined in a massive letter-writing Voters. The issue was also central to our efforts to help critical role in leading the fi ght to stop this anti-immigrant American citizens and permanent residents at a time when the campaign, organizing an internet-based voice of protest that communities pass local resolutions protesting the civil measure, a fi ght that continues. atmosphere of fear and alarm was even more intense than it is gave Ashcroft and his supporters in Congress pause. The bill was liberties violations of the PATRIOT Act, and in 2003- now. stillborn. 04, we scored signifi cant new victories on that front, from 4 an open and vibrant society and vibrant an open 7 The Larger Shadow Cast by Fear

A climate of fear does not confi ne itself, however, to the immediate Schools are often a central battleground whose culture and strictures that creates them. The loss was widely objects of its fear, and the ACLU/SC understands well that in a defi ne a society’s openness. In defending the cultural diversity considered a wake-up call to Mattel and time when the very nature of our society is so closely contested, theatrical troupe, Fringe Benefi ts, from right-wing efforts to exclude other corporations, giving them notice that the forces seeking to close our their message from schools, we scored a signifi cant victory for the strong-arm legal tactics can’t be used to shut society will choose many strategies to forces of openness (see related story on p. 8). down parody and artistic critiques. consolidate power and advance their agenda, appealing to authoritarian, Another key battlefront in preserving an open society is religious Whether a prison warden, a corporation, “traditional,” and majoritarian values. liberty, and the forces that dominate our political landscape now or the federal government is the entity have made a point of exploiting sectarian religious belief for their attempting to shut down freedom of An open and vibrant society celebrates benefi t, blurring our nation’s historic commitment to religious conscience, the ACLU continues to stand diversity of opinion, fosters religious liberty, and fostering government intrusion in religious matters. In up and fi ght for a vision of an open, vibrant, freedom, and recognizes the sexual 2004, the ACLU of Southern California garnered a key victory in and free society, a cultural landscape defi ned Photo by Kara Korbel Chinula and gender diversity of humanity. The its litigation to remove a large Christian cross from public land in by the lively and enriching interplay of effort to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment gained momentum the Mojave National Preserve, overturning Congressional attempts individual voices and beliefs. throughout 2003 and early 2004, presenting a key challenge to to create a public forum for one religion only. civil libertarians. Coordinating with our national offi ce and others, the ACLU of Southern California enlisted thousands of activists We also defended religious liberty behind bars in the case of Billy in the effort to resist an amendment that would have indefi nitely Soza Warsoldier, a Cahuilla American Indian whose religion barred gay and lesbian couples and families from the protection of proscribes men from cutting their hair except on the occasion of the our laws and wiped out hard-won gains at the state level, including death of a loved one. a comprehensive domestic partner rights bill, AB 205, which we ACLU/SC religious liberty plaintiff Billy Soza Warsoldier fought for in 2003. In early 2004, the ACLU/SC also joined cases Finally, the ACLU of Southern California brought to a successful challenging California’s discriminatory marriage laws. conclusion its case defending an artist against a lawsuit by Mattel. The effort helped strengthen individuals’ ability to use the cultural materials at their disposal to comment on the culture 6 an open and vibrant society and vibrant an open 9 ACLU Defeats Right-Wing Effort to Stop Anti-Bias Theater in Schools

Grace Bartee learned about the play in the San Ramon children whose experiences serve as source Elementary School newsletter, where her daughter attended material for some skits. Artistic director fi fth grade. “Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against “When the ACLU Norma Bowles said the company’s work Bigotry.” The title grabbed her. It sounded like just the sort of has been described as “early hate crimes thing Novato, her beautiful Northern California home, too often got involved, there prevention.” marred by vicious acts, needed. was light at the Bartee was surprised to discover she was one Children were often bullied in school, beaten and taunted with of only two parents to attend. Though she words slurring their race, gender and perceived sexuality. Bartee’s end of the tunnel. works full time as a respiratory therapist, son was once called “nigger” at elementary school. A student she thought “Cootie Shots” was important at San Marin High School was brutally attacked by peers who There was a chance enough to arrange time off and experience wrote “fag” on his stomach. what was being presented to her child. to stop these people When the performance ended, she effused Bartee had expressed her worries about the high school to her to the principal. He asked her to write a husband. What would happen to their oldest son, who is of letter. She did. white and African American ancestry? from getting away Later, she opened the local newspaper and His response was direct. “You cannot bring change if you run with this kind of read that the Pacifi c Justice Institute, a right from it.” wing legal organization, had fi led a lawsuit b.s.” over the performance against the Novato “Cootie Shots” was performed in two Novato elementary schools —Grace Bartee, parent, member of United Unifi ed School District. A lawsuit — when as part of a district diversity initiative. The play was created by only two parents attended. Fringe Benefi ts, a nonprofi t educational theater company in for Safe Schools Navato Los Angeles. The age-appropriate messages of understanding Citizens for Parental Rights v. Novato Unifi ed and tolerance emerge from, among other things, the pain of real School District angered Bartee. She joined 8 an open and vibarant society and vibarant an open 11 Citizens for Parental Rights (et. al.) v. Novato Unifi ed School District (et. al.) Filed: 2002, United States District Court, Northern District of California.

Plaintiff: The Pacifi c Justice Institute, on behalf of eight parents Defendant: Novato Unifi ed School District

Intervention: Granted in July, 2003. ✒ ACLU Foundation of Southern California United for Safe Schools Novato, grassroots advocates ✒ ACLU Foundation of Northern California, Inc. for diversity awareness and educational materials in local ✒ United for Safe Schools Novato ✒ Fringe Benefi ts “It is crucial to have not schools. But the group was unequipped to go up against ✒ National ACLU Lesbian & Gay Rights Project the institute. When the ACLU of Southern California ✒ National Center for Lesbian Rights just any organization, and other organizations stepped in, Bartee began to feel hope. At stake: The February, 2001 performance of “Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry” at San Ramon and Pleasant Valley elementary schools. but an organization as well Woven from skits, songs and poetry — some fi ctional, some based on true “We felt we were in this little community fi ghting by stories — the play was presented by Fringe Benefi ts, a nonprofi t, educational structured and progressive ourselves,” Bartee said. “When the ACLU got involved, theater company based in Los Angeles. Designed to give children the tools there was light at the end of the tunnel. There was a needed to face bigotry and embrace understanding and tolerance, the work in thinking as the ACLU. chance to stop these people from getting away with this was developed in collaboration with more than 500 educators, therapists, kind of b.s.” young people and parents. Performances of “Cootie Shots” have been staged You can’t go it alone. before 35,000 students in more than 150 schools throughout California. In July 2003 the courts allowed the ACLU to intervene Essence of complaint: The Pacifi c Justice Institute (PJI) maintained performance of “Cootie Shots” Our organization, we’re too on behalf of the school board. That step made all the violated parental rights by exposing children to a pro-homosexual agenda difference; in September the Pacifi c Justice Institute against the will of the parent and denying parents an ‘opt out’ clause to dropped its action. prevent children from viewing objectionable material. The suit also alleged little. We couldn’t fi ght the performance interfered with a parent’s Constitutional right to direct the upbringing of a child and violated a parent’s Constitutional right to free exercise of religion. The suit also claimed there was no advance notice given back big.” of the planned performance. In addition to the school district, the lawsuit named individual school principals. The ACLU and others stepped in to fi ght — Norma Bowles, artistic director, Fringe Benefi ts. PJI and allow the performances to continue.

Result: Dismissed without prejudice, September, 2003

10 FACTS FAST an open and vibarant society and vibarant an open a society thatinvests inevery individual 15 Education: The Passport to What’s Possible

Throughout our history, reformers, from the abolitionists to teachers, and degraded, unhealthful facilities. As a result, in civil rights law enforcement virtually the number was even the civil rights leaders of the mid-20th century, have recognized 2000, the ACLU of Southern California, along with a host impossible. Providing leadership on the higher: 46.6%. The that access to education is a fundamental precondition for every of other advocacy groups and the pro bono counsel of the law executive committee of the campaign ACLU, working with aspect of participation in our society (from exercising one’s fi rm Morrison & Foerster, challenged California’s provision of and developing the campaign’s core tens of thousands of democratic rights, to securing a living for oneself and one’s inadequate education to so many of its children, (see related information, messages, and strategies well students and with the family, to being fully able to exercise freedom of conscience and story on p. 18). in advance of the election, the ACLU and outreach program staff, speech). Education is the core investment that society makes in other civil rights groups who joined us in ACLU/SC Executive Director Ramona Ripston at the Prop. 54 victory party launched an immediate an individual’s intellectual development and prospects for the In today’s economy, education beyond the high school level organizing the opposition to this reckless and dangerous Internet campaign and followed it up with several “Access future. determines a person’s lifelong opportunities and earning power. measure laid the groundwork for an overwhelming 64%-36% for All” fax days. The funds were partially restored. California, since the passage of Proposition 209 has faced the victory at the polls. Early in its history, the ACLU of Southern California became diffi cult challenge of ensuring that the doors to higher education In 2003-04, we continued another critical campaign to a friend of the court on behalf of 8-year-old Sylvia Mendez, are open to all without possessing the affi rmative action tools But shortly after the special election that yielded this decisive provide access to higher education for undocumented, who was denied admission to a white public school in Orange that have proven effective in achieving that goal. This challenge progressive victory, the new Republican administration long-time resident students. After a successful campaign County. We helped overturn the Westminster school district’s informed three of our top priority campaigns in 2003-04. unveiled another attempt to erode access to higher education to overturn California’s requirement that such students pay practice of segregation in the case Mendez v. Westminster, which for students of color: Governor Schwarzenegger’s fi rst exorbitant “out-of-state” tuition fees, we trained our sights predated Brown v. Board of Education by eight years and started Proposition 54, the brainchild of UC Regent Ward Connerly, draft budget for 2004 included a controversial proposal to on changing federal law so that the same students could the end of segregation in California. who felt that Proposition 209 hadn’t gone far enough, wipe out the University of California’s and California State become eligible for federally-funded state fi nancial aid sought to ban the state’s collection or use of data on race or University’s outreach programs, which, to some extent, had programs. The ACLU/SC led Southern California efforts But just as Brown didn’t fully solve the problem of inequality in ethnicity. Among other consequences, the effect would have succeeded in compensating for 209’s devastating effects. In to support the DREAM Act, a bipartisan effort to remove education, California continued to face patterns of inequality for been crippling to the effort to ensure greater access to higher fact, since 209, outreach programs have grown in importance the block on fi nancial aid, helping coordinate and support a decades, driven by de facto residential segregation, by neglect of education to students from under-represented communities. as a way of ensuring that the University of California reaches youth-led public education and lobbying effort in support of schools attended predominately by students of color, and by a The ACLU of Southern California worked with civil rights and historically under-represented communities and provides the bill, which is still in progress. state governance structure that turned a blind eye to the vastly health groups throughout the state to fi ght the measure and opportunities to students from those communities. Among inferior education that millions of California students receive communicate to the public that it would have made educational African American UC freshmen last fall, 35.8% had taken — the lack of text books and materials, the scarcity of trained outreach programs, targeted public health campaigns, and part in an outreach program. Among Latino freshmen, 14 a society that invests in every individual invests a society that 17 Equality for Girls and for LGBT Students

Battles for equality of Southern California fi led suit against the city of La Puente and well-being. But the state produced an outcome in education and city for providing girl softball players with grossly inferior fi elds coalition also developed few in the safe schools youth programs don’t and facilities than it provided to boy baseball players. The girl research showing that schools movement would have ever always shape up along softball players stood up to this unfairness, and the ACLU/SC, can take steps to make a predicted: a room of over lines of race and class. with a track record of success in challenging such inequities, difference, including making 1,000 community members, Indeed, the ACLU successfully pushed in the courts for settlement. But the La sure students are informed of teachers, and parents in a has participated in Puente athletes and the ACLU/SC wanted to make sure that a nondiscrimination policy, conservative Orange County ground-breaking other girls’ teams benefi ted, too, and so, in 2003, we launched supporting Gay-Straight district showing up to protest campaigns to legislation to require equality in city sports programs for youth. Alliances, training teachers to loudly and vigorously an extend our society’s intervene, and other steps. effort to discriminate against understanding of LGBT students face a different form of discrimination. gender non-conforming equality by focusing Despite passage of a landmark law in 1999 that protects Coincidentally, one of the students. The district, facing attention on the students from harassment and discrimination on the basis of school districts in which the pressure from advocates, barriers that girls and sexual orientation or gender identity, students still face routine coalition needed to advocate parents, and the state, revised lesbian, gay, bisexual, harassment and violence. In response, the ACLU/SC helped for LGBT students most its policy. and transgender launch the California Safe Schools Coalition two years ago actively in 2003-04 was the (LGBT) students too to focus attention at both the state and local levels on the Orange County district of Only through taking often face. implementation of our nondiscrimination law. In January, 2004, Westminster – the same affi rmative actions can we the Coalition released the largest study ever of the problem district where the ensure that each and every Continuing a six- of harassment on the basis of sexual orientation in schools. ACLU/SC’s history of person has the opportunity year-old litigation The coalition analyzed data from over 230,000 students and, educational equity litigation to reach their full potential, and public education extrapolating from that data, showed that 7.5% of all students, began. In 2003, Westminster Westminster protester’s sign, left outside school board meeting whether in the classroom or campaign for gender or more than 200,000 California students between the 7th insisted that it needn’t include actual or perceived gender in on the playing fi eld, and only through doing so can we reach equality in city sports and 12th grade, are harassed each year on the basis of sexual its nondiscrimination policy, and the fi restorm that erupted our own full potential as a society. programs, the ACLU orientation – with severe negative consequences to their health as the district played a game of brinksmanship with the

Amorette Avila, ACLU/SC gender equity plaintiff a society that invests in every individual invests a society that “I have a little sister. 19 The Williams Case: Breaking New Ground in She’s gong to be able to the Civil Rights Struggle Over Education see the fruits from this case. I have nieces and As an Army kid When his family settled in San Francisco and Eli enrolled in network of civil rights groups, fi led suit to change the nephews and cousins. moving through Luther Burbank Middle School, he knew the place ranked answer. Williams v. California demanded the state provide AP/Wide World Photos World AP/Wide posts from Texas to “not so.” In gym, kids worried about falling ceiling tiles. students with critical basics for education: clean and safe I didn’t actually do it for American Samoa, Eli Broken lockers wouldn’t open, requiring many to negotiate schools, updated textbooks and qualifi ed teachers. Williams went to a lot with peers to share storage space. In classrooms, the occasional of schools. He came to rodent fl ed across the fl oor while kids tried to study from When she started working on the case, ACLU-SC staff myself. I did it for them.” ancient books pocky with missing chapters. Often a textbook understand them, what attorney Catherine Lhamon was shocked to hear of the — Eli Williams, lead plaintiff. made some good and was little more than a tattered photocopy tossed down through appalling conditions in some schools. Her dismay fueled others … not so. the ages. action as she spent the bulk of her fi ve years with the ACLU/SC working on the case. The fi ght was diffi cult; Reverend Williams & his son Eli ,when the case was fi led in 2000 “I’m wondering, what is the school district doing?,” said then-governor Gray Davis racked up an $18 million bill provided and photographed “how everything was messed Eli, now 16 and a senior at Balboa High School. “Why are hiring a private law fi rm to resist. up” at Luther Burbank. If the principal looked at him funny they treating every once in a while, Eli kept on, remembering his father’s different schools In August, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to a words. differently?” landmark settlement of Williams. 2004 marks the 50th “I think public education anniversary of Brown v. Board, which called for the Sweetie Williams, pastor of First Samoan Full Gospel It was a question elimination of school segregation. Pentecostal Church, told Eli dirty looks meant nothing. is the key to everyone’s asked throughout What mattered was the future for all children. California for “It’s the best thing I’ve ever done,” Lhamon said. “I think future. This is the civil decades, and in public education is the key to everyone’s future. This is the “I hope this is going to be a real solution. What we have is a May of 2000, civil rights struggle for this generation.” real problem happening to real people,” Reverend Williams rights struggle for this the ACLU said. “These are our children. They are supposed to be the of Southern Eli, an aspiring cinematographer, still thrills at the memory future of our families, our communities and our country. California, joined of helping the lawyers gather needed evidence. A seventh- We still got generations and generations to come.” Eli Williams today generation.” by a statewide grader at the time, he took the disposable cameras his father 18 – Catherine Lhamon, ACLU/SC Okrand/Wirin Attorney a society that invests in every individual invests a society that 21

Williams v. California Filed: May, 2000. Superior Court, County of San Francisco.

Plaintiff: Eliezer Williams, a minor. Class action.

Defendants: State of California; State Superintendent of Public Instruction; State Department of Education; State Board of Education.

At stake: The lawsuit charged the state with failing to meet its Constitutional obligation to give California students the fundamental basics needed for an education. Substandard and poor facilities, outdated – and in some cases nonexistent – textbooks, and underqualifi ed teachers plagued the poorest of California schools, most of these populated by students of color.

Result: August 2004 landmark settlement.

Financial requirements of the settlement include: ✒ Create an $800 million School Facilities Emergency Repairs Account to help low performing schools fund critical repairs. ✒ $138 million to be used to provide books and various instructional materials to schools ranked in the bottom three tiers of the Academic Performance Index. ✒ $50 million to be used to evaluate the repair needs of the actual school sites. This includes $20 million to inventory sites and $30 million to help county superintendents build capacity in order to supervise these schools and oversee repairs in those schools during the coming year.

Other requirements of the settlement include: ✒ Create new standards for instructional materials and school facilities. ✒ Streamline the requirements to credential out-of-state teachers in order to get more qualifi ed teachers in classrooms. ✒ Intervene in the lowest performing schools, ranked in the bottom three tiers in the Academic Performance Index, if those schools fail to provide adequate books and materials or have trouble fi nding teachers. ✒ Eliminate the shortened, multi-track school year by 2012. ✒ Add new schools to the High Priority Schools Grant Program as current schools improve and are phased out. Students in the Williams case documented school conditions such as these a society that invests in every individual invests a society that FAST FACTS FAST a societyof sharedcaring & responsibility 25 A Broader Vision of Shared Responsibility Falling Through the Cracks: Society’s Most Vulnerable

One of the core values of the ACLU of Southern California addition to pursuing a global solution to these problems (see Our emphasis on a Dickensian county facility called MacLaren, where they is an emphasis on a broad agenda that encompasses economic related article on p. 27), the ACLU of Southern California took caring society and were so neglected that their care was characterized by rights and extends beyond a circumscribed list of civil liberties targeted litigation and policy action to defend and expand access a society of shared ACLU attorneys on the case as “amounting to government- issues. The ACLU of Southern California believes that the to health care in 2003-04. responsibility fi nds sponsored child abuse.” The ACLU fi led suit against the only way to achieve true liberty and equality is to bring about expression in many county in 2003, alleging systemic failures to provide the a society that cares about each individual member’s basic well- Faced with cuts that would devastate critical portions of Los of the basic social treatment and care specifi ed by state and federal laws. The being and institutes public policies that embody that caring Angeles County’s safety net for injured and disabled people in county, recognizing the undeniable through a shared responsibility for one another. need of rehabilitation, the ACLU/SC joined other local groups truth of these charges, quickly settled. in fi ling suit to stop the closure of Rancho Los Amigos, the MacLaren has been closed. The linkage between economic welfare and liberty and justice premiere county facility providing such services. We successfully systems affecting issues was apparent to the Southern California affi liate from secured an injunction that prevented the closure and other cuts. the most vulnerable In 2003, the ACLU also took action the very moment of our inception, over 80 years ago, as Upton and, in some cases, on behalf of Los Angeles’ homeless Sinclair faced a violent police force and a corrupt criminal In 2003, we worked with allies in labor to push for SB 2, a despised members population. As demand for shelter beds justice system, risking his life to speak out in support of San bill that expands health care coverage to an additional 1.1 of our society. increased by 19% in 2002, the steepest Pedro longshoremen’s right to assemble and organize for better million Californians by requiring businesses that are shirking rise in a decade, and 32% of shelter working conditions. Wrapped up in this moment were three their duties to provide health coverage to begin sharing the Los Angeles requests by homeless families in Los threads that we continue to pursue today: core liberties in responsibility for health care, rather than sending their workers County, with the Angeles could not be met, Los Angeles the form of freedom of speech and the freedom to assemble, to public programs, or worse, emergency rooms. McDonald’s, nation’s largest answered this crisis by enforcing an injustice in our criminal justice system, and economic justice Macy’s, and other businesses that wanted to continue shirking or foster care system, ordinance that bans sitting or sleeping issues. to divest themselves of this shared responsibility bankrolled an has a dismal and on sidewalks. Law enforcement, acting effort to overturn the law. That referendum, Proposition 72, will disheartening record at the behest of downtown business The lack of health care security continues to dominate be on the November, 2004 ballot. of keeping track of and providing the necessary treatment interests, began a policy of conducting skid row sweeps, California households’ list of domestic concerns, and our health for the children in its charge. Many of the most troubled instilling fear and disrupting the tenuous lives of those who care system, under the duress of untrammeled cost increases and children, those most in need of therapy and individual had no place else to go. The ACLU fi led suit against the city. the rising population of the uninsured, is in a state of crisis. In attention, had been warehoused for years in a jail-like, 24 a society caring of & shared responsibility 27 The Toughest Test of Our Humanity: Fairness in Criminal Justice

But the truest — and toughest — test of a society’s compassion is its treatment of nonviolent Third an initiative and the depth of its belief in the inherent worth of every person is Strike offenders. California is the only campaign strategy, its criminal justice system. Does it operate fairly in every phase of state in the nation to apply 25-years- then jumping into its operations, from law enforcement, through trial, to sentencing? to-life sentences to nonviolent third high gear when it Does it provide for humane conditions to those who are convicted strike offenses such as stealing diapers became apparent of crimes? Is its basic approach one of rehabilitation or one of or bread, or possessing a small quantity that an initiative to vengeance? of drugs. As U.S. Supreme Court fi x the law’s fl aws Justice Stephen Breyer pointed out in would at last be By these measures, California has a long way to go. The Los a minority opinion regarding a Three placed before voters Angeles Police Department, still emerging from the abuse crisis Strikes challenge we brought jointly in November, 2004. that necessitated a consent decree monitored by the ACLU and with Professor Erwin Chemerinsky the federal government, has made strides, but remains a work in 2002, at no other point in our Caring for all, in progress — a work we’re active in shaping and infl uencing nation’s history has a person been caring for the most through our vigorous participation in monitoring the consent sent to prison with an indeterminate vulnerable, and caring Dorothy Erskine & her nephew Brian, who is serving 25 years to life for aid- decree on behalf of affected communities. life sentence for an offense as for the most despised: minor as shoplifting. Thousands of ing & abetting shoplifting collectively, these acts Likewise, the Los Angeles County jail system, which we families have been torn apart, and of caring constitute monitor under another consent decree, continues to require our legislature has failed in nine a culture of shared rigorous scrutiny and oversight. In 2003, the ACLU added staff consecutive attempts to amend the responsibility, and this to strengthen our oversight capacity, and we continue to work law, despite overwhelming public is the true measure of a on a daily basis taking complaints, conducting inspections, and support. society’s civilization. advocating for inmates’ rights — critical, diffi cult, and unsung Our work, though unfi nished, is guided by a vision that work to make Los Angeles County a more humane place. 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a society of caring & shared responsibility 29 31 The ACLU of Southern California needs your help in protecting the civil rights and civil liberties of all Southern Californians. Free speech, the separation of church and state, the rights of the poor, reproductive rights, educational equity, voting rights, equity for all regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity- these are all core principles the ACLU of Southern California works to defend boardCHAIRS EMERITI Frank Cooper III Rozann Newman PRESIDENT each and every day. This important work is made possible by thousands of members and supporters across Southern California. Irving Lichtenstein, MD† Barbara Corday Frederick Nicholas Gary Williams Burt Lancaster† Jeffrey J. Douglas, Esq. Rick Nicita These generous individuals comprise an unparalleled force of political and fi nancial activists, unifi ed in their commitment to civil Allan K. Jonas Richard Dreyfuss Lainey O’Connell OFFICERS rights and civil liberties. Stanley K. 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Zukor 32 The ACLU joined the fi ght for gay rights in the 1960s as a natural extension EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The battle for civil liberties is never won. We know with certainty that the Bill of Rights will still be under attack in the years ahead, and the ACLU must be Ramona Ripston 35 there to defend it. By providing for the ACLU through their estate plans, members of the Heritage Club are helping to ensure that the ACLU will have the of its commitment to speak for all those denied equal treatment before the means to keep defending freedom well into the 21st century. We are pleased to acknowledge the generosity and foresight of these very special women and men. law. Now, more than three decades later, the ACLU maintains one of the LEGAL DIRECTOR Mark D. Rosenbaum nation’s largest dockets of cases concerning the rights of lesbians, gay men, Gay Abarbanell E. H. Duncan Donovan Gail Jeffrey Jane Morton Jefferson P. Selth Julianna Alexander Jean Adloff Pearl Drankow John J. 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F E D Support & Revenue $4,307,948

support & revenue* total percentage A. Individual Contributions $1,787,167 41% C A B. Bequests $890,271 21% B C. Court Awarded Fees $829,301 19% D. Restricted Foundation Grants $393,120 9% E. Interest & Other $176,750 4% C F. Budgeted Transfers $231,339 5%

B expenses total percentage A. Program Services $2,502,272 72% B. Fundraising $524,714 15% C. Management & General $445,330 13% A *Represents net of sharing with the National ACLU Foundation of contributions and bequests. The National ACLU Foundation shares totaled $2,274,370 UNION CHARTS Expenses $3,472,316 ACLU Foundation of Southern California Foundation ACLU

� � � Support & Revenue $765,966 � Support & Revenue* Total Percentage A. Membership Dues $554,066 72% � B. Individual Contributions $83,363 11% C. Bequests $81,879 11% D. Interest & Other $29,968 4% E. Budgeted Transfers $16,690 2% *Represents net of sharing with the National ACLU � Expenses of dues, contributions and bequests. The National A. Program Services $400,857 52% ACLU shares totaled $175,829. B. Fundraising $193,411 25% C. Management & General $180,994 23% � All fi gures provided are unaudited at time of publication. Complete, audited fi nancial statements for the year ending March 31, 2004 by Engel, Kalvin, et al., may be obtained by writing to the ACLU/SC,

ACLU of Southern California ACLU � 1616 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026. Expenses $775,262