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SAN FRANCISCO—Community activists in Northern California today announced a settlement in their lawsuit against the County of Marin and Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle, whose office illegally made the license plate and location information of local drivers, captured by a network of surveillance...

Marin County's sheriff will stop sharing license plate and location information with agencies outside of California, including ICE, according to a legal settlement announced on Wednesday by the ACLU. 

This practice has violated two California laws, endangers the safety and privacy of local immigrant communities, and facilitates location tracking by police.

Immigrant rights activists are suing the Marin County Sheriff for sharing drivers’ license plates with federal and out-of-state agencies in what is believed to be the first of its kind to challenge the sharing of private information collected by this type of mass surveillance.

Print A state appeals court has ordered California to move disabled inmates found mentally incompetent to stand trial out of jails and into treatment. A three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal in San Francisco set a deadline of 28 days for the state to move mentally ill and intellectually disabled defendants into hospitals or treatment programs after a court has found them too impaired to stand trial. Those defendants now often spend months in jail, where lawyers say they have die...

Court orders California to move severely disabled defendants into treatment within 28 days Maura Dolan © (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) A man is detained and placed in handcuffs in Los Angeles. An appeals court has set a deadline of 28 days for the state to move mentally ill and intellectually disabled defendants into hospitals or treatment programs after a court has found them too impaired to stand trial. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) A state appeals court has ord...