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Prison News -Open-and-Shut C: (c)
The Vacavalley Star - censored by
- prison officials at Vacaville and shut
down by the Department of Corrections
along with the six other state prison
_ newspapers -- is printing again. The re-
emergence of the beleaguered broadsheet
is due to the efforts of ACLU-NC co-
operating attorneys William ``Zak'' Tay-
lor and Peter Goodman of the San Fran-
cisco law firm of Brobeck Phleger and
Harrison and the skillful negotiations of
Assemblyman Art Agnos.
The Star is the subject of an ACLU
lawsuit, Diaz v. Watts, initially filed in
1981 when an entire issue of the paper
was destroyed and the editor, inmate Vic
Diaz, was booted out of his office by
prison officials at the California Medical
Facility in Vacaville.
In April 1981, attorneys Taylor and
Goodman and ACLU staff counsel Alan
Schlosser succeeded in winning a pre-
liminary injunction from Solano County
Superior Court Judge William Jensen
ordering that the editor be reinstated and
the paper published without undue har-
assment or censorship from prison
officials.
Judge Jensen postponed a final deci-
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A@L(R) cooperating attorneys Peter Goodman and Zak Taylor (.) fought to the
Vacaville inmates newspaper from being censored and shut down.
sion in the case until another prison news
censorship case, Bailey v. Loggins, was
decided by the California Supreme
Court. That decision is still pending.
Despite the judge's order, however,
prison officials continued to plague the
Tenth Annual Celebration
Martinez, Wicker
for Rights Day
Vilma Martinez, former president and
general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican
American Legal Defense and Education
Fund) has been chosen to receive the Earl
Warren Civil Liberties Award at the
ACLU-NC's tenth annual Bill of Rights
Day Celebration.
New York Times columnist and As-
sociate Editor Tom Wicker will be the
Vilma Martinez - Earl Warren Civil
Liberties Award winner.
keynote speaker at the event, which will
be held on Sunday, December 5 at the
Sheraton Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
The Bill of Rights Day Celebration is
the culmination of the ACLU-NC's an-
nual fundraising campaigns. The Bill of
Rights Day and Major Gifts Campaigns
support virtually the entire legal program
of the ACLU-NC Foundation. Each
year, donors make tax-deductible contri-
butions to the Foundation and are recog-
nezed in the Commemorative Booklet
issued the day of the Celebration. The
combined fundraising goal this year is
$250,000 (see article p. 7).
As this is our tenth anniversary cele-
bration of Bill of Rights Day, we are
making an extra special effort,'' said
Jake Rubin, chair of the Bill of Rights
Campaign. ``Already, many chapters
have set up solicitation teams to seek do-
nations in their local areas and affiliate
board members are speaking with
donors about the extraordinary needs of
the ACLU-NC this year."'
The ACLU-NC selected Vilma Mar-
tinez as the award recipient in July. Each
year, for the past ten years, the Earl
Warren Civil Liberties award has been
presented to a person or persons who
have distinguished themselves as
champions in the battle to preserve and
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paper's production. Taylor | and
Goodman went back to coMataseve
times seeking contempt judgments
against prison officers for continuing to
censor the paper and delaying its pro-
duction.
On August 23, the ACLU attorneys
were scheduled for another contempt
motion in the Solano . courthouse,
charging prison officials with censorship
of two specific articles and unnecessarily
delaying the paper by holding articles for
review for an inordinate length of time.
The week before the Monday hearing,
Department of Corrections Director
Ruth Rushen issued a directive shutting
down the Star and six other state prison
newspapers.
Department of Corrections spokesper-
son Phil Guthrie claimed that the drama-
tic move was unrelated to the legal dis-
pute over the state's power to censor pri-
son newspapers. He said that the $58,000
per year spent on the papers could be
better spent on funding jobs for pri-
soners and argued that the shutdown was
not an infringement on prisoners' First
Amendment rights because "inmates
have the right to send letters to the editor
(of an outside newspaper) just as you or I
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lor countered. ``The closing of the prison
newspapers was clearly in retaliation for
controls the court had placed on prison
officials because of the censorship law-
suits.""
Taylor explained that ACLU papers
filed in the case contained minutes of a
meeting where CMF prison officers had
decided to request the Department of
Corrections to shut down the prison
newspapers so as to avoid the censorship
issue.
"The financial saving is also a red
herring. We had been asking for months
that Diaz be paid as editor of the Scar,
instead of having to work in the prison
craft shop. Why not pay the inmates to
work on the paper?"' Taylor said.
' "Besides, the Department said that
they would replace the inmates' papers
with a newspaper produced by the staff.
That paper would cost money too," he
added.
Change in Plans
Taylor and Goodman immediately al-
tered their plans. At the scheduled hear-
ing they charged the Department of Cor-
rections with wholesale interference with
prisoners' free speech rights and chal-
lenged the directive as a blatant act of
censorship and retaliation against out-
spoken prison newspapers such as the
Star.
An emergency hearing was set for
September 3.
However, on August 24, bowing to
public and political pressure, Guthrie
`announced an about-face: the Depart-
ment of Corrections reversed its decision
to shut down the prison newspapers.
The announcement came after Assem-
~blyman Art Agnos met with Director
Rushen, urging her to keep the papers
open. Agnos, a strong supporter of pri-
soners' rights, said, `"The terrible, ter-
rible conditions in prison make it impor-
tant that prisoners have a voice.
`"And their only voice is the prison
newspaper,'' Agnos added.
Agnos had also prepared to introduce
legislation to ensure continued funding
of the inmates' papers. He is the chair of
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aclu news
october 1982
ACLU-NC BALLOT CHOICES
At its September meeting, the ACLU-
NC Board of Directors took a stand in
favor of the nuclear freeze ballot initia-
tive, in opposition to a statewide ballot
"measure which would provide textbooks
at public expense to private schools, and
in support of a San Francisco measure to
establish an Office of Civilian Com-
plaints within the Police Department.
The Board also passed a resolution com-
mitting the organization to educate the
electorate on the role of the independent
judiciary.
Nuclear Freeze
Proposition 12
Stating that ``the presence and pro-
liferation of nuclear weapons is inherent-
ly antagonistic to the maintainence of
civil liberties,'' the Board voted to en-
dorse the nuclear weapons freeze cam-
paign. The measure, which appears as
Proposition 12 on the November ballot,
calls for a freeze on the testing and de-
ployment of nuclear weapons.
The policy passed by the Board also
expressed concern over the possiblity of
increased governmental surveillance and
suppression of rights in the name of na-~
tional security, ``making impossible in-
formed citizen debate and consent on an
issue critical to our survival."'
School Textbooks
Proposition 9
Supporters of parochial schools have
placed Proposition 9 on the ballot, a _
measure which would overturn the
ACLU of Southern California 1981 vic-
tory in California Teachers Association -
v. Riles. The California Supreme Court
held that the state's so-called textbook
loan program for grades K-8 in private
-and parochial nonprofit schools violated
the state Constitution's prohibition on
spending money for sectarian purposes.
The decision was significant because
the U.S. Supreme Court had previously
held that the federal Constitution does
not prohibit such programs.
The former California program was
called a `"`loan'? to pupils in private
schools, but it actually operated in much
the same' fashion as the public school
textbook program. The state purchased
books and sent them to the schools on
request. The schools did not return the
books to the state: they were used re-
peatedly until the books were worn out
or obsolete.
`Once the books became obsolete, re-
ligious schools would give them to other
religious schools or send them to foreign
missionaries. The former program, be-
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'Loaning Public Textbooks to Private Schools NO I
`Proposition 12
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fore it was declared unconstitutional,
cost California taxpayers nearly $4 mil-
lion a year.
Proposition 9, sponsored in the Legis-
lature by Senator Alan Robbins, would
amend the state Constitution - the basis
for the decision in CTA vy. Riles - by
permitting the state legislature to "`lend"'
books to all private schools, prefit and
nonprofit alike, and by extending the (c)
provision of books beyond the former
limit of eighth grade, to twelfth grade.
According to the state legislative
analyst, these extensions.of the old pro-
gram would cost the state at least an ex-
tra $1 million, brining the total projected
cost to over $5 million annually. This
figure does not include the administra-
tive cost of running the new program,
however.
_ The ACLU-SC Church/State Project
attorney Dorothy Lang assisted the op-
ponents of Proposition 9 in drafting
their ballot arguments against the mea-
sure. Six prominent religious, educa-
tional and political leaders signed the op-
posing arguments, which were chal-
lenged in court by the lobbyist for the
Catholic Conference.
The ACLU lobbied against this mea-
sure when it was before the Legislature, (c)
and has long held that such a practice is
unconstitutional on the grounds of sep-
aration of church and state.
Jail Expenditure
Proposition 2
On October 4, the Executive Com-
mittee decided to recommend to the
Board that the ACLU-NC oppose Prop-
osition 2, the County Jail Capital Ex-
penditure Bond Act. The recommenda-
tion was made in consideration of the
ACLU's position that increased jail con-
struction will not. solve the very real
problem of overcrowded, inhumane con-
ditions in our jails.
At the time the ACLU News went to
press the full Board had not yet voted on
the recommendation. That vote will
occur at the October 14 Board meeting.
Civilian Complaints
Measure A
Measure A on the San Francisco city
ballot is a proposed amendment to the
San Francisco Charter establishing an
Office of Civilian Complaints. The
OCC, which has long been supported by
the ACLU as a means to monitor and
check police misconduct, would establish
civilian investigation of complaints, and
the possibility of hearings before civilian
hearing officers.
According to ACLU-NC staff coun-
sel, Amitai Schwartz,
make a difference because good, solid, |
unbiased investigation is extremely im-
portant for police accountability. Under
the present system, police officers in-
vestigate other police officers. The Police
Department is a tight fraternity - it is
difficult for many people to believe that
officers can be free of bias when they
investigate other police officers."'
Schwartz noted that the OCC would
be responsible for investigating com-
plaints of police misconduct and com-
plaints that a police officer did not per-
form a duty required by law. The OCC
would also recommend disciplinary :
action to the Chief of Police when such
action is warranted. Currently all com-
plaints of police misconduct go to the In-
ternal Affairs Bureau of the Police De-
partment. .
The OCC was first proposed by the
S.F. Bar Association in 1976. Since then,
despite intensive lobbying by the ACLU
and other organizations, it has faced a
rocky road in City Hall, opposed both
by the Police Commission and Mayor
Feinstein. In May, 1982 the Board of
Supervisors supported a proposal by
Supervisor Harry Britt to submit the
OCC to the electorate at the November
election.
Independent Judiciary
ACLU-NC Executive Director Doro-
_thy Ehrlich told the Board that because
"The OCC will
of the growing attacks on the indepen-
dence of the judiciary, and in particular,
strident criticism from the right to three'
new appointees to the state Supreme
Court, the ACLU is receiving many in-
quiries about its position on the current
campaign.
After a lengthy discussion, the Board
passed the following resolution,
The ACLU of Northern California is
concerned that the California system for
the periodic confirmation of judges by
the electorate is abused when it focuses |
on the particular philosophy of a judge
rather than his or her overall Coe:
tence.
An independent judiciary, a funda-
mental element of the separation of
powers, has proven during the last 200
years to be one of the greatest contri-
butors to the preservation and strength-
ening of Constitutional government.
Judges who must weigh the likely popu-
lar reaction to any particular decision
and to bear in mind, as they decide cases
in light of the Constitution, that their
own tenure in office may be at stake,
cannot be expected to perform their
functions adequately.
The ACLU believes that the basic no-
tion of an independent judiciary is being
perverted in the name of politics in the
current campaign against confirmation
of four Supreme Court justices in
November. The ACLU is committed to
the active participation of an informed
electorate and will seek to educate and
inform the people of the role of indepen-
dent judiciary in our system.
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aclu news
october 1982
Top Court Puts Lid on Secrets
The ACLU's 6 year court battle to win
access to secret files kept by the state for
the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit
(LEIU) ended on September 27 when the
California Supreme Court ruled that the
Attorney General was not required to
make the files available under the Cali-
fornia Public Records Act.
The ACLU had sought a sample of
the index cards used by the LEIU in
order to determine whether the state was
engaged in surveillance of political
groups and non-criminal private citizens.
The 5-1 decision of the high court,
authored by Justice Allen Broussard, al-
lowed the ACLU access to computer
printouts which contain non-confidential
information derived from _ public
records, but not to the more thorough
and up-to-date LEIU index cards.
"After careful examination of the
LEIU index cards,'' Broussard wrote,
`"we conclude that in the present case the -
public interest predominates against dis-
closure of the cards."'
Despite the fact that the ACLU had
specifically requested that all names and -
identifying information be deleted from
the cards before disclosure, the court re-
lied on provisions of the Public Records
Act barring disclosure of `"`personal
identifiers, confidential sources, and
confidential information relating to
criminal activity,'' to deny access.
The court admitted that some material
on the cards is not exempt from disclo-
sure. But the majority held that `"`It is
clear that the burden of segregating
exempt from non-exempt information
on the 100 cards would be substantial.'"
ACLU staff counsel Amitai Schwartz,
who argued the case twice before the
Supreme Court, described the decision as
a "mixed bag, but definitely a net loss
for the ACLU and for freedom of infor-
mation in general."'
``We are especially concerned that the -
ruling seemed to give more weight to the
bureaucratic inconvenience of sorting
out non-exempt material than to the es-
sential right to know.
"T fear that this will set a standard for
other state and local agencies to deny ac-
cess to information,'' Schwartz said.
`*Bureaucrats will look for a way to deny
people access to information.
"Unfortunately, the Supreme Court
decision opened the door for them to do
just that,'' Schwartz added. ``They can
now say `It's too much trouble.' "'
He added that the disclosure of the
computer printouts would be useful in
assessing what kinds of information the
Board Officers
At the September meeting, the ACLU-
NC Board of Directors elected the fol-
lowing officers to serve for 1982-1983
term: Davis Riemer, Chair; Richard Cri-
ley, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Eva Jefferson
Paterson, and Nancy Pemberton, Vice-
Chairs; and Lisa Honig, Treasurer.
In addition to the officers, the Board
elected the following persons to serve on
the Executive Committee: Donna Hit-
chens, Sylvan Heumann, _Drucilla
Ramey, Linda Weiner, and Frances J
Strauss. The Executive Committee also.
includes the chairs of standing commit-
~ tees: Sanford J. Rosen, Legal Commit-
tee; Peter Hagberg, Field Committee;
and Bernice Biggs, Development
Committee.
state was holding but noted that the
printouts contain mostly stale informa-
tion. `""The computer program ended in
1976,' Schwartz said. ``Although the
`LEIU still uses the old data, .it will only
provide us with`a minimal profile."'
Watergate Atmosphere
The ACLU originated the pursuit of
the. documents in 1976, when, in the
aftermath of Watergate, there was a
great deal of concern and _ suspicion
about government surveillance of poli-
tical opponents.
``Similar. cases in other states revealed
that state agencies feeding information
into the LEIU were engaged in political
spying of law-abiding citizens.
`Litigation in Chicago, for example,
revealed the name of former California
state Senator Nate Holden on one of the
LEIU index cards,'' Schwartz said. ``He
was on record simply because he had
rented a house for four months to a
member of the Black Panther Party.
"All of this indicated to us that the
LEIU, a quasi-public consortium of
INS Must Halt Illegal
The INS must stop illegal raids in
search for aliens and must cease retal-
iating against plaintiffs who filed suit to
halt those raids, U.S. District Court
Judge Robert Aguilar ruled on Septem-
ber 16.
Judge Aguilar issued a preliminary in-
junction which states that immigration
officers cannot enter business premises
without warrants or consent from em-
ployers. :
`"`The injunction simply orders the INS
- to operate within its own guidelines and
according to the Consitution of the
United States,'' said Mort Cohen of
Golden Gate University Constitutional
Law Clinic who argued the case for a
coalition of civil rights groups.
Robert Moschorak, chief of immigra-
tion investigations in San Francisco told
the press, however, that the order will
`effectively shut down 90% of our oper-
ations."'
The suit, International Molders v.
Nelson, was filed in August by the
ACLU-NC, MALDEF. and other legal
groups on behalf of a labor union,
workers, and employers who were the
spies, spooks and intelligence operators,
was, in fact, unlawfully intruding on the
private lives of law-abiding people.
After an in camera inspection of the
LEIU cards in 1978, a Sacramento Su-
perior Court judge stated that they were
full of ``gossip, rumor, and hearsay,"'
and should be made accessible to the
ACLU for inspection.
That decision was reversed on appeal
in 1980, with Justice euroruz Reynoso dis-
senting. Because of his participation in
the appellate decision, Justice Reynoso
did not take part in the Supreme Court
decision.
In a strong dissent, Chief Justice Rose
Bird stated that the decision was ``ab-
surd'' and undermined the whole
purpose of the Public Records Act. She
supported the ACLU contention that all
of the information should be made
public.
"The ACLU's concern stems from
mid-1970's revelations on the national
level of law enforcement abuses in the
acquisition and maintainence of infor-
mation for suveillance purposes,'' Bird
wrote. ``The fears expressed at that time
have increased as a result of the [Cali-
fornia Department of Justice's] recent
publication of a report purportedly re-
lating to organized crime and terrorism.
"The report suggests that the Depart-
ment views its duty to monitor organized
crime activities as covering `activities of
domestic extremist groups in the forms
of rallies and demonstrations.' "' (Empha-
sis added).
The report to which Bird_ referred,
Organized Crime in California - Ter-
rorism, was presented to the court by
Schwartz to illustrate what kinds of First
Amendment activities the Attorney
General considers to be worthy of crim-
inal surveillance.
Schwartz said that the ACLU will con-
tinue to fight for the right to know and
will seek immediate legislation to ensure
that public agencies cannot claim ``ad-
ministrative burden'' as an excuse for
denying access to public information.
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victims of ``Project Jobs,'' a massive
INS raid of workplaces in April. One
week after the suit was filed, warrantless -
raids took place against two employer
plaintiffs, Neve Roses and Pearl River
Mushrooms, both in Petaluma (see
ACLU News, August-September, 1982).
``We suspect that the quick repeat of
these raids was in retaliation against
these two employers for filing suit,'' said
Susan Brown, A MALDEF attorney.
`Judge Aguilar's injunction prohibits
such retaliation against the plaintiffs in
the `Project Jobs' case."'
The suit attempts to halt a wide range
of illegal practices which typically occur
in INS raids. The complaint charges that
during Project' Jobs and subsequent
raids INS agents surrounded workplaces
and blocked all exits. Agents questioned
and arrested Hispanic workers without
probable cause to suspect that they were
illegally in the country. Hundreds of
workers, including U.S. citizens, were
handcuffed and detained without being
told of their legal rights. Many were sub-
- ject to threats and physical abuse.
The suit charges that these actions are
Hotel Clerk Cleared
Gail Manning, the Oakland hotel clerk
who was charged with violating an 1872
statute prohibiting ``keeping a house of
public resort knowing that it is to be used
for the purpose of an assignation,'' was
vindicated last month when the Court of
Appeal struck down the statute as over-
broad (ACLU News, June-July 1982).
The ACLU and California Attorneys
for Criminal Justice supported Man-
ning's challenge to the consitutionality
of the law in the Court of Appeal after
her original challenge was denied in the
Oakland-Piedmont Municipal Court.
The ACLU brief argued that the pro-
scription of ``assignations'? - a vague
term nowhere defined in the Penal Code
- was particularly objectionable. Staff
attorney Margaret Crosby explained that
such prohibited conduct is virtually iden-
tical to ``private consensual sexual be-
havior'' which has been repeatedly pro-
tected by decisions of the state Supreme
Court.
The Court of Appeal agreed with the
ACLU, finding the statutury prohibition
of conduct described as ``assignation'' so
worded that its enforcement ``could in-
fringe upon an individual's constitu-
tional right to privacy.'
Acting Presiding Justice Allison Rouse
wrote that in 1872, when Penal Code 316
was enacted, ``assignation'' was `"`gen-
erally understood to denote conduct
involving the commercial exploitation of
illicit sexual activities,'' but that the pre-
sent understanding is ``sufficiently un-
certain as to make it unlikely that an
average individual would have any clear
idea of what conduct fell within the pur-
view of that term."'
Such vagueness, ruled the court,
allows for the unfettered discretion by
the police in determining for themselves
what conduct shall constitute ``assigna-
tion."'
The unanimous decision by the Court
of Appeal sustained Manning's request -
to have the charges against her dropped
cave
Raids
the common practice of the INS and vio-
late the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amend
ment to the Constitution.
Though. a federal court decision in
July, ILGWU y. Sureck, placed strong
limits on workplace raids, INS raids have
continued in California. International
Molders v. Nelson addresses the alien
raid question more widely than the Los
Angeles case because it represents
employers whose workplaces were
disrupted as well as workers and unions.
It also raises such issues as the. unfair
singling out of Hispanic workers and the
denial of rights to counsel and to remain
Silent.
Joaquin Avila, president of
MALDEF, said, ``We hope the order
will, in fact, stop these raids which whip .
up anti-alien hysteria and terrorize His-
panic communities."'
Joining as co-counsel in the suit are
ACLU-NC, MALDEF, National
Lawyers Guild, Asian Law Caucus, Cali-
fornia Rural Legal Assistance, the Con-
stitutional Law and Immigration Law
Clinics of Golden Gate University, and
the law firm of Van Bourg, Allen, Wein-
berg, and Roger.
aclu news
october 1982
aclu news
octoboer 1982
You should have been there! Over 200 ACLU members and
supporters converged on the Claremont Hotel in Oakland on
the weekend of October 2 - 3 for our Annual Conference. They
came from Fresno and Marin, Stockton and Sonoma - they
came from all over northern California to learn about the many
issues the ACLU is working on and to plan for the year ahead.
Excitement was in the air from the very first breakfast
plenary session where Wade Henderson, our lobbyist in
Washington, D.C. gave an insider's report on the victories and
setbacks in Congress this year - from the extension of the
Voting Rights Act to the defeat of the school prayer and anti-
abortion amendments. He gave a stunning analysis of the
various components of what we loosely call the `New Right,"
and warned that their agenda is as varied as their interests
(which vary from a Cold War stance on national security to a
racist stance on immigration) and that though we achieved alot
this year, we should not let our guard down for a minute.
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The workshops - Winning Reproductive Rights, The Right
to Know - The Right to Speak, Crime and the Climate of Fear,
Registration Minus the Draft, Immigration - the Land of the
Free?, and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze - were led by im-
pressive panels of experts and the lively discussions allowed
us all to really explore the issues behind the headlines. Did you
know that even ACLU members don't always agree?
Author and First Amendment advocate Nat Hentoff gave the
keynote address on Saturday night - he told a variety of tales
to underscore his point that lack of education about one of our
most fundamental freedoms - the First Amendment - is a
growing threat to freedom of expression. Citing recently
enacted legislation such as the Intelligence Identities Pro-
__| tection Act (which makes it a crime to publish the name of an
intelligence agent even if the source of the information is
public) and the Blitz Amendment (which outlawed CETA grants
| to members of political parties that advocate the overthrow of
| the government), he warned that many legislators - though
they are lawyers - "don't have the remotest idea of what they
| are doing when they enact such laws," and called on_-all civil
_| libertarians to Speak out against these violations. )
; Sea
Our Saturday night - which was enlivened by a surprise
visit from Representative Ron Dellums - did not wind down
until the wee hours of the morning, thanks to the Salsa music
of Chevere. People who never thought they could, just cha-
cha'ed, rhumba'ed and samba'ed all night.
Aileen Hernandez - who has a wealth of experience in the
women's, civil rights and labor movements - shared with us a
beautiful tribute to Rosie Jimenez (the first woman to die after
funding for abortion was cut off by the federal Hyde Amenda-
ment) and to all of those whose deaths were caused by racism, |
sexism and class oppression. Their deaths, she told us, must
be vindicated by our continuing fight to change this society. .
San Francisco Municipal Court Judge Mary Morgan
reminded us "not to leave the fight for justice to lawyers and
judges," and that it is up to all of us - community activists,
labor organizers, ordinary, caring people - to make sure that
the rights that have been won in the courts are preserved and
strengthened by our own efforts in the workplace, in our
neighborhoods, in the political arena.
Een ae
The clapping that accompanied the Bluestein Family's
blues, reggae, Irish and Cajun songs was not, | suspect, just
for the very lively musical beat, but spontaneous applause for
the whole weekend!
We were all so impressed by the efforts of the Field Ex-
ecutive Committee - Bernice Biggs, Dick Criley, Peter Hag-
berg, Anne Jennings, and J.R. `Jake'? Rubin, - and the Staff
- Field Organizer Marcia Gallo assisted by Sally Smith - in
organizing the weekend's events. They really know how to put
on aconference! :
And have | forgotten to mention the view, the chats by the
pool, the relaxing hospitality suite hosted by the BeAeK and
Earl Warren Chapters, ... You really had to be there! We'll see
you next year - for sure!
ak
6 aclu news
october 1982
Challenges Begin
Prop 8 OK'ed by Court
by Dorothy Ehrlich
ACLU-NC Executive Director
Proposition 8 opponents were handed
a narrow defeat on September 3 when
the California Supreme Court issued its
4-3 decision upholding the validity of the
Gann anti-crime initiative passed by the
voters in June.
The close court decision addressed
only the question of whether
Proposition 8 - a massive overhaul of
the criminal justice system which the
ACLU vigorously opposed - failed to
comply with the procedural requirement
that ballot measures brought directly to
the voters may only address a single
subject.
Opponents had argued that Proposi-.
tion 8 failed to meet the ``single subject"'
test, since the measure embraced /2 sep-
arate changes in the criminal justice sys-
tem - changes as diverse as establishing
a "right to a safe school'' to repealing
the entire California Evidence Code.
Opens the Door
The high court decision means that
Proposition 8 is technically valid. It does
not mean, however, that the 12 sub-
stantive changes in criminal law con-
- tained in the measure are constitutional.
Thus the September ruling opens the
door for a wave of lawsuits to challenge
each of the 12 separate issues covered in
the proposition.
Immediately following the decision a
coalition of public interest lawyers, pub-
lic defenders and community organi-
zations called an emergency meeting to
begin considering challenges to the var-
ious components of the measure and to
assess the immediate consequences.
Training sessions for attorneys have al-
ready been arranged.
A subcommittee to monitor Proposi-
tion 8 issues as they develop in the lower
courts was also set up.
Issues which the ACLU is particularly 7
concerned about include: the so-called
truth-in-evidence provision, which pur--
ports to repeal the exclusionary rule even
when the police violate the state consti-
tution in searches; certain. provisions
dealing with sentencing ``habitual'' of-
fenders; and provisions restricting bail.
Popularity Polls
The right to a fair trial, the right to be
presumed innocent until proven guilty,
the right of reasonable bail and other
constitutional guarantees may not pre-
vail in popularity polls this season. There
is, however, reason to believe that this
current wave of anti-crime hysteria is
waning.
And reason to believe that the
ACLU's insistence on protecting those
rights - which ultimately protects us all
from the potential abuse of a lawless
government - must also, in time, pre-
vail.
As the first convictions for failure to
register for the draft were handed down
this summer, the government launched a
massive effort to force the over half a
million young men who have not ye
registered to do so. :
Draft Dragnet Tightens
ter in February specify the call-up of 20-
year olds first in a draft. Those born in
1963 will be 20 years old in 1983."'
Also in August, HR 6030 - the Solo-
mon Amendment - was passed by Con-
gress and signed into law by the Presi-
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In August, the Selective Service Sys-
tem sent out 33,000 letters in IRS en-
velopes warning men born in 1963 to
register within fifteen days of receipt.
The IRS plans to randomly select 200
names out of the list and hand them over
to the Justice Department.
According to ACLU Board member
Judy Newman, an anti-draft activist,
`The selection of young men born in
1963 was not accidental. The Rules and
Regulations entered in the Federal Regis-
Death Law Sent Back for Review
On September 16, the U.S. Court of
Appeals sent the death sentence convic-
tion of Robert Alton Harris back to the
state Supreme Court for a far-ranging re-
view, blocking executions in the state for
an indefinite period.
A three judge panel ordered the state
high court to hold a hearing to ``deter-
mine whether the penalty in this case is
proportionate to other sentences
imposed for similar crimes.'' A propor-
tionality review is aimed at determining
whether a death sentence was imposed
according to previously accepted
standards and was not ``arbitrary and
capricious."
The California Supreme Court must
now reconsider Harris' death sentence
and include a proportionality review in
more than 100 other pending Death Row
cases.
The ACLU-NC filed a joint amicus
brief with the State Public Defenders
Office in support of Harris' petition in
federal court for a writ of habeus corpus.
Harris was the first San Quentin Death
Row inmate to exhaust all his state court
appeals. No federal court had ever re-
viewed' the California death penalty
statute as it was adopted in 1977.
The joint amicus brief, prepared by
public defenders Michael Millman,
Charles Sevilla, Ezra Hendon and Eric
Multhaup and ACLU-NC staff counsel
Amitai Schwartz, had raised several ob-
jections to the law under which Harris
was sentenced. Millman explained, ``Un-
like every other state, California lacks
the procedural protections necessary to
ensure that there is a meaningful basis
for distinguishing the few cases in which
the death penalty is imposed for the
many where it is not."'
Millman said that the protections in-
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clude a requirement of jury unanimity on
capital punishment, clear objective
standards to guide the jury on their death (c)
penalty decision, and some statewide ap-
pellate review mechanism to ensure that
the death penalty is not being arbitrarily
or capriciously applied.
It was the last requirement that the
federal court found lacking in the Cali-
fornia law, although it upheld the state
capital punishment statute on all other
grounds.
The Court of Appeal also decided that
even if the California Supreme Court
finds the death penalty was not being
applied in an arbitrary or capricious
fashion - or disproportionately - the
U.S. District Court may nonetheless
have to hold hearings on claims of dis-
crimination. -
Harris' attorney, Michael McCabe
from San Diego, argued that in 1980,
67% of those people given the death
penalty for robbery-murder (Harris'
conviction) had murdered white victims,
while only 4% had murdered blacks and
29% had murdered victims in other
minority groups. :
``The death penalty is being applied in
a way that discriminates against those
convicted of murdering whites,''
McCabe explained.
The federal appeals court noted, ""We
do not believe the state accorded Harris a
full and fair hearing on these constitu-
tional claims."'
Deputy state public defender Michael
Millman said that he was gratified by the
decision and expressed hope that the
state's death penalty law would even-
tually be declared invalid, based on the
grounds raised in the Harris case.
Millman said it would be "`uncon-
scionable'' for the state to consider
further executions until the constitu-
tional questions in Harris' case were con-
clusively resolved in state and federal
courts.
Harris came within days of an execu-
tion last March before the Court of Ap-
peals agreed to stay the execution. No
one has been executed in the state since
1967.
dent when he signed the Defense Author-
ization Bill. This provision bars student
loans, grants or other aid under Title IV
of the Higher Education Act to any male
student who. cannot prove he has
registered. 4
The bill goes into effect on July 1,
1983.
David Landau, lobbyist with the
ACLU National Legislative Office in
' Washington, D.C. and an editor of |
Draft Action, said that constitutional
arguments such as discrimination and
lack of due process will be raised in any
- court challenge to the implementation of
the aid cut-off.
Nationwide there have been 10 indict-
ments of non-registrants. There have
been two trials and two convictions.
In Roanoke, Virginia, Enten Eller, a
religious objector, was convicted and
sentenced to 3 years probation and 250
hours of community service with the
proviso that he register in 90 days. He
maintains that he will not register.
Ben Sasway was convicted in San
Diego on August 26. During his trial, the
judge denied all defense motions and
sustained all prosecution motions. Sas-
way was denied bail as the judge said
that he ``posed a threat to the com-
munity'? because he would ``very likely
continue to advocate subversion of this
country's judicial process which goes to ~
the heart of our national interest.'' An
emergency appeal to the Ninth Circuit
was denied 2-1. Sasway was sentenced on
October 4 to 30 months in prison.
According to Newman, who also
heads up the local Parents and Friends
_ Against the Draft, several Bay Area
registers have now received letters from
U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello giving
them 30 days to register. `""We expect.
local indictments in 3 or 4 weeks,'' she
added.
The national ACLU and the Public
Education Law Institute have set up the
Selective Service Law Center to provide
attorneys and others with information
and briefings on legal issues in draft
prosecutions. The center will also
develop a national network of draft law
attorneys to defend non-registrants. If you
need such assistance, contact the Selec-
tive Service Law Center, Suite 611, 1346
Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington,
D.C. 20036 or call 202/223-5524.
aclu news
october 1982
Martinez, Wicker f or Rights Day
continued from p. 1
expand civil liberties. _
``Though there were many proposed
candidates, we felt no one deserved that
distinction more than Vilma Martinez,"'
said ACLU-NC Chair Davis Riemer.
``As president and general counsel of
MALDEFF for ten years, she directed the
major national advocacy program
seeking equality under the law for the
country's 14.5 million Latinos.'' Riemer
noted that Martinez's work had special
significance in California, where Latinos
are the largest minority in the state.
Martinez, who took on the directorship
of MALDEF in 1973 at the age of 29,
transformed the organization from an
understaffed, underfunded storefront
- operation into a zealous and sophisti-
cated advocate of the nation's fastest.
growing minority. Until May of this year
when she stepped down from her
MALDEFEF post to enter private practice,
she directed a staff of 80 in six cities
across the country.
Her litigating and organizing skills en-
abled MALDEFEF to take the leading role
in a wide-ranging legal assault on em-
ployment and educational
discrimination, immigration abuses,
violations of voting rights and other
issues central to the Hispanic com-
munity.
A graduate of Columbia University
Law School (she was told that a Chicana
Fall Fund Drive
in Full Swing
Bernice Biggs, ACLU-NC board
member, is the new chair of the Develop-
ment Committee. Biggs replaces Nancy
Pemberton who resigned the position in
August to enter Boalt Hall School of
Law.
Biggs, a professor of English, coordi-
nates an experiental learning program at
San Francisco State University. Last year
she was the president of the United Pro-
fessors of California at the S.F. campus.
Pemberton became Development
Committee Chair in 1980 and in 1981,
with the start of a new annual Major
Gifts Campaign, led the ACLU-NC
Board to a record year of fund raising
for the legal program of the ACLU
Foundation of Northern California.
Pemberton will continue to serve on the
board as Vice-Chair.
This year's Major Gifts Campaign has
reached $75,000 toward a $180,000 goal.
According to Associate Director Michael
Miller, the gifts received so far are re-
continued on p. 8
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could not get into law school in her
native Texas), she has argued before the
U.S. Supreme Court on many occasions
and participated in some of the most im-
portant civil rights cases in the last
twenty years. Among her victories are -
the invalidation of standardized general
intelligence tests which discriminate
against minorities, and-a suit which in-
validated the 1970 census in which the
Census Bureau was forced to admit that
they had overlooked at least 644,000 His-
panics in California alone.
Martinez also emphasizes the need for
community activism to secure rights won
by law. ``I remember winning Serna v.
Portales,' she explained, ``establishing
that people had the right to bilingual
Tom Wicker - Keynote speaker.
education in school. But the people of
Portales still didn't have it because we
couldn't keep the political pressure on
the school district.
`So I decided that we needed a com-
munity education component,'' she
added. From that decision, MALDEF's
top-notch litigation unit was enhanced
with a community education project, a
media coordinator, and a division of re-
search and policy analysis.
`""MALDEF has gone beyond just the
legal actions, and we've become not the |
law firm that I envisioned, but a multi-
disciplined entity,'' explained Martinez.
In addition to her leading role at
MALDEF, Martinez serves on the
Board of Regents of the University ot
California, on the California Federal Ju-
diciary Selection Committee, and, as a
result of her vigorous advocacy against
discrimination in the Census, she was
appointed to serve on the Census Ad-
visory Committee on Spanish Origin
Population to raise the Hispanic count in
the 1980 Census.
In 1978, when she received the Col-
umbia University Medal of Excellence,
the President of her alma mater
described Martinez as ``a major figure in
American civil rights and the foremost
Chicana lawyer in the U.S."'
Martinez, the daughter of a San An-
tonio carpenter, says, ``I like to go back
to the University of Texas and tell them
that story."'
Bill of Rights Day keynote speaker
Tom Wicker is well known to every New
York Times reader.and beyond as one of
the country's foremost thinkers on civil
liberties issues. His Jn The Nation
column in the Times' Op-Ed page has
provided thoughtful, comprehensive
analysis of such topics as race
discrimination, prison conditions, and
attitudes toward crime since 1966.
A native of North Carolina, Wicker
worked as an editor at several Southern
newspapers before joining the New York
Times as a Washington correspondent in
1960. He became chief of the Washing-
ton Bureau in 1964 and was appointed
_ Associate Editor in 1968.
He has authored seven novels and
four non-fiction books, including A
Time to Die, which was also the basis for
a movie on the prison uprising at Attica
in 1971. His articles have appeared in
numerous magazines from The New
Yorker to TV Guide.
In 1979 Wicker was given the William
O. Douglas Award for defense of civil
liberties by Public Counsel, the public
interest arm of the Los Angeles Bar As-
sociation.
`This tenth anniversary celebration of
Bill of Rights Day is especially significant
in light of the Reagan attacks on civil
liberties, and particularly the rights of
minorities. We will be hearing from two
very seasoned activists, Vilma Martinez
and Tom Wicker, who have a wealth of
experience in fighting for civil rights
during other difficult times,'' said Bill of
Rights Day Campaign chair Rubin.
"I'm sure that this year's event will
prepare us well for the decade ahead,"'
he added.
The Campaign committee is also plan-
ning music and entertainment for the
celebration.
The Bill of Rights Day Celebration
_ will be held at the Sheraton Palace Hotel
in San Francisco, December 5 from 5 - 7
PM (no-host bar from 4 - 5). Tickets for
the event are $7.00 each and are available
from the ACLU-NC office. Send in the
form below, or call Marlene DeLancie at
415/621-2488.
T
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Bill of Rights Day
Please send me
lam enclosing a check for $
Name
| want to be there on our Tenth Annual Celebration of
tickets at $7.00 each.
Address
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Lizzy Brotherton
Lizzy Brotherton, a volunteer on
the ACLU-NC Complaint Desk for
ten years, died on October 3 in San
Francisco.
In July, more than 30 volunteers
and staff members gathered at a
luncheon to pay tribute to Lizzy for
her extraordinary work over the last
decade. Lizzy donated a full day each
week to assist callers seeking legal ad-
vice to the ACLU. She also shared her
expertise by training new volunteers
who joined the Complaint Desk staff.
_ACLU-NC Executive Director
Dorothy Ehrlich honored Lizzy as
"an outstanding person, a source of
strength for the ACLU."' Ehrlich
said, ``Lizzy combined the three es-
sential - and rare - qualities
necessary for work at the Complaint
Desk, compassion, toughness and
experience."'
In addition to her calm expertise on
the desk at the ACLU, "renaissance
woman'' Lizzy was an artist and had
published a Chinese cookbook.
Lizzy wisely assisted thousands of
people who called and visited the
ACLU during her ten years as a vol-
unteer. Her devotion to the ACLU
and her straightforward advice and
compassion will be deeply missed.
Help Wanted
COMPLAINT DESK COUNSELORS
Every week the ACLU gets hundreds of
calls from people whose rights have been
abused. Some of these calls become law-
suits, some require other action by the
ACLU, some are referred to other
agencies - some just need a sympathetic
ear.
All of the callers are received by
ACLU Complaint Desk counselors who
volunteer one or more days per week for
the front lines in the battle for civil
liberties.
If you can devote one day a week from
10 to 4 to work on the ACLU Complaint
Desk, please call Gwen Owens at the
ACLU, 415/621-2493. You will be given
a complete orientation to the ACLU-NC
and trained by an experienced counselor.
- It won't be easy - but it will be re-
warding, and your presence will mean
alot to the growing number of people
_ whose rights are being threatened.
BAK."
BOARD MEETING: (Fourth Thurs-
day each month.) Thursday, October
28; 8:00 p.m. Contact Joe Dorst,
415/654-4163.
EARL WARREN
ELECTION RESULTS: Congratula-
tons to Barbara Littwin, re-elected
chapter chair; Michael Coppersmith,
chapter vice-president; Dennis Bel-
- court, secretary; and Pat Watters,
treasurer.
BOARD MEETING: (Third Wednes- |
day each month.) Wednesday, Octo-
ber 20; Wednesday, November 17.
7:30 p.m., Sumitomo Bank, 20th and
Franklin Streets, Oakland. Contact
Barbara Littwin, 415/452-4726.
FRESNO
BOARD ELECTION RESULTS: Con-
gratulations to new Fresno Chapter
board members Nadya Coleman, John
Konior, Bill Krieg, Carolyn Phillips,
Howard Watkins, and Scott Williams.
BOARD MEETING: Wednesday,
October 20, 7:30 p.m. Contact John
Konior, 209/439-5018.
MARIN
BOARD MEETING: (Third Monday
each month.) Monday, October 18;
Monday, November 15. 8:00 p.m.,~
Fidelity Savings, Throckmorton
Street, Mill Valley.
CIVIL LIBERTIES FORUMS: Be-
ginning in November, the chapter will
sponsor monthly public forums with
guest speakers on current civil liberties
concerns.
Wednesday, November 10, ACLU of
Northern California Staff Counsel
Amitai Schwartz will speak on police
surveillance and brutality. 8:00 p.m.,
Mill Valley Community Center. Con-
tact Dr. Milton Estes, 415/383-6622.
MID-PEN
BOARD MEETING: (Last Thursday
each month.) Thursday, October 28,
8:00 p.m. Contact Harry Anisgard,
415/856-9186.
MONTEREY
Yes on 12: Public Meeting on the Bi-
_ lateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Ini-
tiative. Guest Speaker:. Dr. Francis
Tomosawa, of Watsonville, survivor
of Hiroshima bombing. Tuesday, Oc-
tober 26, 8:00 p.m. Monterey Public
Library, Monterey. For more infor-
mation, contact Richard Criley, 408/
624-7562.
ANNUAL CELEBRATION: Satur-
day, November 20, Santa Catalina
School. The 1982 Ralph Atkinson
Civil Liberties Award will be presented
to Dr. Russell Williams; guest speaker
_ will be Frank Wilkinson, director,
National Committee Against Repres-
sive Legislation. Contact Richard Cri-
ley, number above. ;
MT. DIABLO
ELECTION RESULTS: Congratula-
tions to new chapter chair Eve Gil-
martin; vice-chair Beverly Bortin;
treasurer Andrew Rudiak; and secre-
tary David Bortin.
FILM FESTIVAL: Saturday, Novem-
ber 13, 8:00 p.m., Auditorium of Con-
tra Costa County Water District, 1331
Concord Boulevard, Concord. The
Front with Woody Allen and Zero
Mostel. Tickets $5.00; coffee and re-
freshments will be served. Contact
Betty Kunkel, 935-3585.
NORTH PEN
BOARD MEETING: (Please note
day change: Third Monday each
month.) Monday, October 18; Mon-
Calendar
day, November 15; 8:00 p.m. Con-
tact Richard Keyes, 415/367-8800.
~SACRAMENTO
BOARD MEETING: (Third Wed-
nesday each month.) Wednesday, Oc-
tober 20; Wednesday, November 17;
7:30 p.m. New County Administra-
tion Building, 7th and I Streets, Hear-
ing Room 1, Sacramento. Contact
Cliff Anderson, 916/451-5025 (eve-
nings).
SAN FRANCISCO
BOARD MEETING: (Last Tuesday
each month.) Tuesday, October 26,
6:00 p.m. ACLU-NC office, 1663
Mission Street, San Francisco; 415/
621-2493.
SANTA CLARA
BOARD MEETING: (First Tuesday
each month.) Tuesday, November 2,
7:30 p.m., Community Bank Building,
San Jose. Contact Vic Ulmer, 408/
379-443 1 (evenings).
SANTA CRUZ
MEMBERSHIP MEETING: Sunday,
October 17; 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Guest
Speaker: ACLU of Northern Cali-
fornia Executive Director Dorothy
Ehrlich. Contact Blanche Greenberg,
408/476-8653.
ANNUAL DINNER: Wednesday,
November 17, Louden Nelson Center.
Guest Speaker: ACLU of Northern |
California Executive Director Dorothy
Ehrlich. Contact Blanche Greenberg,
408/476-8653.
DRAFT COUNSELING CONFER-
ENCE: Saturday, November 6, Forum
Building, Cabrillo College. Guest
speakers are Jon Landau and William -
Smith. Contact Bob Taren, 408/429-
9880.
SONOMA
BOARD MEETING: (Third Thurs-
day each month.) Thursday, October
21; Thursday, November 18; 7:30
p.m. Center for Employment Train-
ing, 3755 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa
Rosa. Contact Andrea Learned, 707/
544-0876 (evenings).
BALLOT ISSUE COFFEES: Final
Sunday in series: Sunday, October 17.
Hosted in Santa Rosa, Sebastapol,
and Petaluma; 3:30 p.m. Contact
Russell Jorgensen, 707/538-1502.
STOCKTON
BOARD MEETING: (First Tuesday
each month.) Tuesday, November 2.
Contact Bart Harloe, 209/946-2431.
ELECTION GET-TOGETHER: |
Monday, October 25. Stockton Pub-
lic Library, Central Branch. Contact
Bart Harloe, number above.
YOLO COUNTY
BOARD MEETING: Regular board
meetings include potluck dinner and
discussion of issues - next meeting
Thursday, October 21, on The Right
`to Dissent, with guest speaker; 6:30
p.m. Contact Julius Young, 916/758-
5666 (evenings).
SPEAKERS SERIES: at King Hall,
U.C. Davis Law School. Contact Julia
Duffy, 916/756-6715 (evenings).
FIELD PROGRAM
PRIORITY DISCUSSION AND
TRAINING SESSION: Saturday, No-
vember 13, 10 a.m. - noon. Discus-
sion of Field Program priority areas
for 1983. 1- 4 p.m., Training session
for mew (and experienced) chapter
and field program activists. Contact
Marcia Gallo, 415/621-2494.
Fund Drive
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newals of Major Gifts ($1,000 and
above) given in 1981. Board member
solicitors are seeking another $45,000 in
renewal gifts and $60,000 in new Major
Gifts `from ACLU members and sup-
porters in 1982.
All 45 ACLU-NC board members are
involved in fall fundraising activities
through the Major Gifts and the 198
Bill of Rights Campaigns.
This year's Bill of Rights fundraising,
with a goal of $70,000, is headed up by
Jake Rubin, long time Sonoma Chapter
board member and representative to the
ACLU-NC Board.
With help from the Bill of Rights
Campaign Committee, Rubin is recruit-
ing solicitation teams and other volun-
teers from all 16 ACLU-NC chapters.
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a Ways and Means committee that deals
with Corrections.
As a result of the turnaround, the Sep-
tember 3 court appearance reverted to a
substantive hearing on the original cen-
sorship of the Scar. 5
Judge William Jensen agreed with
ACLU arguments that the two articles
censored by CMF officials should be
printed and also that the prison officers
had been holding the articles for review
for an unnecessarily long period of time.
Though he did not find them in con-
tempt, the judge sternly reminded the pri-
son Officials that the terms of the pre-
liminary injunction still stand and that
they should cease their harassment of the
Vacavalley Star.
"The Vacavalley Star, which had been
shut down by the statewide directive on
August 16, went back to press after the
Department reversed its position,''
Goodman said.
`But we will continue to keep a close
watch to preclude any further harass-
ment or censorship of the paper either on
a state level or by CMF officials,'' he |
warned..