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Volume LV
march 1991
War Emergency Desk Handles
Complaints on Key Issues
he ACLU-NC War Emergency
Desk, established during the first
week of the war in the Persian
Gulf, has responded to more than 100
complaints of civil liberties violations dur-
ing its first month of operation.
Calls ranged from charges of police
abuse by those protesting the war on the
Streets, to questions about restrictions. on
- speech in the work place - "Can I wear a
peace button on the job?" or "My boss
won't allow me to wear a yellow ribbon."
. Legal interns Anne Salisbury and Alan
Zeltserman, the War Desk's two full-time
staff members, are in direct contact with
the many individuals and organizations
who call the ACLU-NC for assistance.
Above all, they say, they hope to prevent
civil liberties from becoming domestic
casualties of the war. According to
Salisbury, a University of Pennsylvania
law student, the War Desk has perhaps
been most successful in assisting those
who have been blocked in their attempts to
protest the war.
Explains Salisbury, "When we get a
call from a group in San Francisco that is
being told by public officials that they
can't distribute literature on the sidewalk
without a permit, we're able to intercede
directly and let the public official know
that the protestors do not need a permit in
order to distribute leaflets on a city side-
walk, as long as they're not blocking any-
one's way. When the ACLU calls and sets
things straight, we can usually fix the
problem right on the spot."
Arab-Americans
Some of the problems the War Desk is
confronting are not so easily cured. The
desk has focused its primary attention on
discrimination against Arab-Americans,
and particularly on the FBI's recent efforts
- to investigate and interrogate Palestinians,
Iraqi nationals, Arab-Americans, and oth-
ers who are or who appear to be of Middle
Eastern origin.
The ACLU has strongly criticized the
program.
Law interns, working in concert with
veteran ACLU-NC staff counsel Alan
Schlosser, have begun monitoring the
FBI's attempts to investigate and inter-
view Arab-Americans, and have provided
assistance and information to a number of
individuals and groups targeted by the
probe. Protesting the FBI's program as a
tragic reminder of the government's now
thoroughly discredited policies against
Anne Rushing
No. 2
Japanese-Americans during World War II,
the ACLU hopes to develop a strategy to
end continuing abuses in the Bay Area and
throughout the nation.
Among the many calls that Salisbury
has handled from Arab-Americans, she
noted one example as especially disturb-
ing. In this instance, FBI agents forced a
school administrator to order an Arab-
American student to be sent out of a local
community-college classroom so that she
could report for an interrogation.
At a time when war tensions are run-
ning high, it is particularly humiliating for
minority students to be subjected - in
front of their classmates and peers - to
treatment which suggests that there is a
reason to suspect them of wrong-doing.
Official government action, unfortu-
nately, often echoes in the private sector,
and there have been many recent com-
plaints that Arab-Americans throughout
the Bay Area have been harassed by pri-
vate parties.
Press Censorship
On February 13, 1991 the ACLU-NC
co-sponsored a forum on media coverage
of the war in the Gulf and the dissent here
at home. The forum, entitled "Covering the
War - Is Truth the First Casualty?" was
co-sponsored with the U.C. Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism and Media
Alliance. The forum, held on the UC cam-
pus, drew a lively response from the audi-
ence, which heard from UC Berkeley
sociology professor Todd Gitlin; free-lance
Continued on page 4
Police Tactics at Demos Get Mixed
ACLU Reviews
news - bad news."
That's how ACLU-NC
Police Practices Project director John
Crew summarized the police response to
the recent anti-war demonstrations in the
Bay Area.
"On the positive side," Crew said,
"there were considerably fewer complaints
66 I t was the proverbial good
Prop. 96 Stay
Dissolved by Court
ix San Francisco County jail
S inmates, and a physician who used
to work at the jail, sued the San
Francisco Health Department and the San
Francisco Sheriff's Department to block
implementation of the jail/prison provi-
sions of Proposition 96, which required
reporting of all HIV-infected inmates.
Those provisions would require health
_care workers in the jail to report the names
of all inmates infected with HIV or other
communicable diseases to all deputies,
and others working at the jail who might
come into contact with the inmates.
The suit was filed in San Francisco
Superior Court on January 14. The plain-
tiffs asked the court to issue a preliminary
injunction, ordering the Health
Department (which employs all jail health
care workers) and the the Sheriff not to
implement the reporting rules for inmates
with HIV and Hepatitis B.
The Superior Court heard the injunc-
tion request on January 31, and denied it
with a one line order on February 7. That
afternoon, the Sheriff announced that
implementation would begin six days
later. Two days before the deadline, the
plaintiffs appealed the order. Late that
same afternoon, the inmates' lawyers
asked the Court of Appeal to issue a stay
ordering the Sheriff and the Health
Department not to implement during the
appeal.
The inmates also asked the court to
issue an emergency stay directing the
defendants to do nothing to implement
until the court could consider the request
for a stay pending appeal. The Court of
Appeal issued the emergency stay at 5:15
that same afternoon. But the stay was dis-
solved later in February.
The prisoners are represented by
ACLU-NC co-operating attorneys Jeff
Continued on page 3
of serious acts of police brutality and
fewer injuries than in the past. On the
other hand, a California Highway Patrol
officer sent at least two demonstrators to
the hospital in a shocking over-reaction to
civil disobedience, and the San Francisco
Police Department continued to use certain
tactics that we fear will have a chilling
effect on people wishing to express their
views. There was also an incident of police
intimidation of demonstrators in Oakland
that was disturbing."
San Francisco police officers were
operating under a crowd control manual
negotiated with police and city officials
just last year by the ACLU's Police
Practices Project and other community
groups. Among other things, the manual
sharply limits the use of police batons
against demonstrators. It was widely cred-
. ited for the relatively non-violent nature of
the police tactics.
When asked why the police did not use
more force in controlling the crowds, San
Francisco Police Chief Willis Casey was
quoted as saying, "This is not Lithuania."
Mayor Art Agnos noted that the city was
in the process of settling United Farm
Workers' leader Dolores Huerta's police
brutality lawsuit for $825,000 because of
injuries she suffered during a 1988 protest.
However, during mass arrests at three
demonstrations, San Francisco police
swept-up some people who had engaged in
no criminal activity. The ACLU-NC
received complaints from passers-by, legal
observers, media, and others who claimed
that they were arrested while lawfully
standing on sidewalks or under circum-
stances when police had given no clear
warning or opportunity to disperse.
"Police must make fundamental dis-
tinctions about people's conduct when
making mass arrests in civil disobedience
circumstances," Crew said. "If arrests are
made because some people are sitting
down in the street and intentionally block- -
ing traffic, others who lawfully observe or
protest on the sidewalks should not be
arrested. If police have legal cause to
declare an event an unlawful assembly,
they must make clear announcements and
give people an adequate opportunity to dis-
perse before arresting people for failing to
do so."
Crew also noted that police exacer-
bated the situation when some demonstra-
tors were not released from custody with
citations because they were labelled
"repeat offenders." According to Crew,
"This represents the worst type of preven-
tative detention - especially when so
many of the arrests were apparently
improper in the first place."
The ACLU-NC also received com-
plaints about conditions at a San Francisco
pier that had been set-up as a temporary
jail to accommodate the 1,600 people
arrested during the first week of anti-war
protests. Protestors complained that they
were denied access to phones, lawyers,
food, water and bathrooms during the sev-
eral hours they were held in pens in the
pier behind a sign scrawled, "Operation
Desert Keep."
In another incident now under ACLU-
NC review, two demonstrators were
viciously attacked by a CHP officer when
they joined others in sitting on the shoul-
der of Highway 101 in San Francisco.
After a shouted order to "move!" was
ignored by the protestors, the officer
immediately began delivering brutal blows
with his side-handle baton.
Continued on page 3
aclu news
march 1991
`Domestic Partners Celebrate Victory on
Valentine's Day
tic partnership law finally took
effect on February 14, Valentine's
Day. Approximately 290 couples regis-
tered their relationships with the county
clerk during the first day, many of them
lining up hours before the office's official
opening at 9 a.m.
The city clerk set up a special area to
process the anticipated large first day
crowd in the Registrar of Voter's office.
Potential new partners were given an
information sheet written by the ACLU-
NC, and a set of processing instructions
printed on pink paper. Each clerk's station
was marked with a heart shaped red bal-
loon.
After each new couple presented a
swom declaration and $35 filing fee to
the clerk, they were given a "Certificate of
Domestic Partnership" signed by the clerk
and printed over a lavender city seal.
Registration continued throughout the
_ Day, alongside the traditionally large num-
ber of marriages performed on Valentine's
day. As the day wore on, the two crowds
mixed in the rotunda, laughing and asking
each other to take pictures of the couples
and their friends. It became difficult to tell
who came from which group.
S an Francisco's long awaited domes-
There were few discernable patterns in
the new domestic partners. Most of the 0x00B0
couples were same sex, although about 20
percent were not. The gay couples divided
about evenly between women and men.
There were many senior couples along
with many couples in their 20s. "I don't
see many political people here," one of
clerks remarked. "These look like average
working people to me."
About half the couples joined in a cele-
bration in the City Hall rotunda at 4 p.m. .
Announcers at either side of the grand
marble staircase in the center of the
rotunda read the names of the members of
each couple as they appeared at the top of
the stairs. The couples then descended the
staircase into a large cheering crowd in the
rotunda, while a swing band provided
background music.
`One couple, both members wearing
cowboy hats, threw bouquets into the
crowd half way down the stairs. Another, a
man and a women who had been together
over 12 years, marched down the stairs
with their daughter. When two men in tux-
edos appeared at the top of the stairs, the
speaker announced that this was their 15th
anniversary. Two women in tuxedos came
down the stairs holding an infant, also
Sonoma Students Rights
Affirmed
he right of student journalists to
produce an underground newspa-
~ per without signing their names to
articles has been affirmed by a school
board of trustees in Sonoma County.
The board decision came as a result of
action by the Sonoma County chapter of
the ACLU. "Ipso Facto" first appeared on
the campus of Sonoma Valley High School
in November. It featured articles on the
Persian Gulf, safe sex, and a criticism of
the school principal.
Previous school board policy had
required all material distributed on campus
to bear the name of a sponsoring organiza-
tion. Students who distributed "Ipso Facto"
contacted the Sonoma ACLU and asked
for help in reversing that policy.
ACLU cooperating attorney Steven
Fabian wrote to the school board, pointing
out that banning anonymous materials vio-
~ lates both the freedom of speech provi-
sions and the California education code.
"Under these rules," Fabian pointed out,
"the Federalist Papers, written in favor the
adoption of our Constitution, would have
been banned, and our forefathers sus-
pended if they attended Sonoma Valley
High School."
The school board agreed, and was
scheduled to formally ratify its decision
allowing anonymous publications in a late
February meeting.
the measure.
ACLU stalwarts Anne Forfreedom (1.) and Dawn Huber at the ACLU-NC
information table during a commemorative event held on the eighteenth
anniversary of Roe v. Wade in Berkeley in January. At an ACLU co-
sponsored press conference marking the anniversary in Sacramento,
Assemblywoman Jackie Speier announced she had introduced a resolution
asking the president and Congress to enact the Reproductive Health Equity
Act. She was joined by State Senator Rebecca Morgan in speaking in favor of
Anne Rushing
dressed in a tuxedo.
Later, the crowd heard remarks from
Supervisor Harry Britt, who has sponsored
the law for over ten years. After other
speakers, the crowd moved to the Green
Room at the War Memorial for a reception
sponsored by the Lesbian Agenda for
Action.
ACLU-NC attorney Matt Coles, who
has worked on the law since it was first
proposed in 1981, looked at the rotunda
crowd and said, "People are having so
much fun, but you can tell by looking at
their faces that this is so important. It is
easy to forget how important it is to peo-
ple not to have to hide any part of their
lives. This is great."
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march 1991 3
Why There are More and More
Police Review Commissions
By John Crew
n the last few years, there has been
enormous growth in the number of
communities nationwide creating
civilian review boards for their police
agencies. The overwhelming support for
civilian review in a variety of localities -
whether large or small, liberal or conserva-
tive - has finally put to rest the tired, old
claim that these boards are solely the prod-
uct of narrow special interest groups who
have some ax to grind wae law enforce-
ment.
In reality, the recent rend nae civil-
ian review is the product of two funda-
mental facts of life in contemporary police
work.
First, in an era of ever-shrinking fund-
ing for local government, there is an inten-
sified need for tax dollars to be spent
wisely. With a large share of these limited
funds being devoted to public safety, local
governments simply cannot afford police
officers who are not performing their jobs
professionally, and who create liability
risks for the taxpayers.
Independent civilian review boards can
help identify problem officers, and prac-
tices which fail to reflect the true policing
needs and values of the communities they
serve.
Second, police officers are asked to
perform very difficult and dangerous tasks"
that should not be further complicated by
strained police-community relations. An
effective and credible system for investi-
gating complaints of police misconduct is
a critical component of healthy police-
community relations. A system that asks
the public to blindly trust the police to
"police" themselves is often neither effec-
tive or credible. And, therefore, such a
system is usually ignored by the very peo-
ple whom law enforcement should be
encouraging to come forward with their
concerns.
Many arguments have been used by
those opposing civilian review boards.
These arguments rest on myth. Let's look
at them one by one.
Myth No. 1 - "Civilian review is an
outdated idea." In fact, of the ten civilian
review agencies and boards now operating
in California, six were created in the last
five years.
Myth No. 2 - "Civilian review is
inconsistent with laws governing police
discipline." In fact, every attempt to chal-
lenge the legality of California's civilian
review systems has failed.
Myth No. 3 - "There is universal oppo-
-gition to civilian review in the law enforce-
ment community." In fact, support for
civilian review among professional admin-
istrators and associations is growing. For
example, the sheriff of San Diego County,
the San Francisco Chief of Police, and the
National Black Police Association all have
endorsed strong, independent civilian
review systems.
Myth No. 4 - "Civilian review systems
create extra layers of bureaucracy." In
fact, the most efficient civilian review sys-
tems replace rather than duplicate the
usual practice of using police officers to
investigate complaints. This allows trained
civilians to specialize in these sensitive
investigations, while freeing police for
more urgent needs.
Myth No. 5 - "Civilians just can't
understand police work." Police work is
Alameda Police Lose
Second `"*Malicious
Prosecution" Suit
or the second time in less than a
year, police officials in Alameda
have attempted to sue citizens
bringing malicious prosecution
againstthem.
But, on February 11, an Alameda
Superior Court judge, for the second time
in a year, dismissed such a suit.
Raymond Seeterlin and his attorney
were sued as a result of bringing a police
brutality action against police officer
Robert A. Villa and the City of Alameda.
The suit was settled, but Villa persisted in
filing a malicious prosecution action.
Superior Court Judge James R.
Lambden dismissed the suit. "By dismiss-
ing Villa's malicious prosecution action at
an early stage, the court was telling civil
rights plaintiffs that their settlement will
not be allowed to come back to haunt
them in the form of legal harassment after-
suits
ward," according to ACLU staff counsel
Ed Chen.
The suit was similar to one filed last
March by three Alameda police officers
following the filing of a civil rights law-
suit by a woman who alleged she had
been beaten after a routine traffic stop.
"The filing of malicious prosecution
actions by police officers accused of
police brutality is a very troubling trend,"
says Chen. "Most such suits are thrown
out by the courts as unmeritorious, but
they nevertheless may have their intended
effect, deterring people with legitimate
claims from seeking redress for police
misconduct."
Diana L. Lee, of Howard, Rice,
Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson and Falk
served as cooperating attorney on this
case.
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like any other professional occupation; it
can be explained, if the effort is made, to
outsiders willing to learn. If there is a
police tactic or policy that cannot be
explained in a manner that the public can
comprehend and accept, it probably
should not be used at all.
Independent civilian oversight of
police is merely the implementation of a
very fundamental American belief that
abuses of government power can be
avoided through systems of checks and
balances. With the legal authority to arrest
and use force, police officers are given
unique powers over the public which they
serve. A police officer is more visible and
can have greater impact on the day-to-day
lives of the residents in some communities
than any other government employee.
In many ways, a local police agency is
in greater need of public scrutiny and an
independent system of checks and balances
than any other local government institu-
tion. Professional police officers and
administrators should have little to fear
from the creation of civilian review sys-
tems designed to act as the public's impar-
tial "watchdogs."
In fact, they have much to gain.
Staff attorney John Crew directs the
Police Practices Project for the ACLU-NC.
A version of this article appeared in the
Santa Cruz Sentinel. The Coalition for a
Police Review Commission is advocating -
the establishment of civilian review agen-
cies for police and sheriff s departments in
Santa Cruz county.
Ann Brick Joins ACLU-NC
Staff
nn Brick, an attorney since 1978
A with Howard, Rice, Nemerovski,
Canady, Robertson, and Falk, has
joined the ACLU-NC as staff counsel.
_ Ms. Brick has been an ACLU board
member for the past two years. She has
worked with the ACLU as a cooperating
attorney since 1978, on the school book
censorship case, Wexner vs. Anderson
Union High School Board of Trustees.
(The case, involving the works of the late
Richard Brautigan, was won after eleven
years of legal proceedings.) She also
served on the ACLU-NC legal committee.
A native of Wyoming, Ms. Brick is a
graduate of Tulane University and Boalt
Hall Law School. She clerked for U.S.
District Court Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli
before joining Howard, Rice.
"After having worked with the legal
staff here as both a cooperating attorney
and a board member," she says, "actually .
joining the staff feels like coming home."
Dorothy Ehrlich, ACLU-NC executive
director, says that "Ann Brick's addition
to our legal staff couldn't come at a better
Elson-Alexandre
time. Having such an experienced litigator
who knows our issues so well will help us
immeasurably at a time when so many
civil liberties issues are being referred to
us for action."
Proposition 96 Reporting ...
Continued from page I
Cole and Valerie Pierce of Jackson, Tufts,
Cole and Black, and by ACLU-NC staff
counsel Matt Coles.
The inmates argue that since most peo-
ple with HIV do not know they are
infected and show no outward signs of the
disease, health care workers could report
only the names of a minority of those who
are infected. That means, the inmates say,
that jail workers trying to minimize the
already small risk of exposure must use
"universal precautions:" i.e., wear gloves
whenever encountering blood.
According to Cole, the prisoners' posi-
tion is supported by the United States
Centers for Disease Control, and by "the
most prominent experts on AIDS in cor-
rectional facilities." Three of those
experts, Steven Safyer, the head of New
York City's jail medical service; Robert
Cohen, one of his predecessors; and
Lambert King, whom Cole called "the
nation's leading expert on prison medi-
cine," gave sworn statements in support of
the inmates. -
The inmates were also supported by the
jail's own doctors, according to attorney
Pierce. She said that after the suit was
filed, the plaintiff's lawyers took the depo-
sitions of Dr. Elizabeth Kantor, head of
medicine for the county jails, and Dr.
Joseph Goldenson, her assistant. -
Kantor and
According to Pierce,
Goldenson supported the experts' testi-
mony that in view of the need for universal
precautions, reporting serves no useful
purpose. She said that both doctors also
"agreed with the experts that reporting
would lead to a false sense of security by
corrections workers and would discourage
inmates from being honest with physi-
cians."
Coles explained that the challenge is
based on the state and federal constitu-
tional rights to privacy and the Federal
Rehabilitation Act, which bans discrimina-
tion against persons with disabilities.
Police Tactics at
Demos...
Continued from page I
The first victim received several lacer-
ations on his leg. The second man suffered
a severely fractured shin bone that
required several hours of emergency sur-
gery. Immediately after breaking the
man's leg, the officer began kicking him.
The entire incident was captured on video-
tape.
Crew notes that side-handle batons
have been purchased by. several law
enforcement agencies because can they
deliver more force than conventional
batons which lack the handle protruding at
a right-angle from the stick. "If this is an
example of the amount of force involved
with these weapons, perhaps law enforce-
ment agencies should re-think their use.
It's difficult to imagine any circumstances
when it would be necessary for a police
officer break someone's leg with a baton."
aclu news
4 march 1991
ACLU War
Emergency ...
Continued from page 1
writer and media critic Laura Fraser;
Soheir Morsey, a University of Cairo
anthropologist; and editors at Channel 2
and the Chronicle.
A capacity crowd of more than 300
people expressed a high degree of skepti-
_cism, anger and frustration over the way
information about the war has been manip-
ulated through the imposition of military
press restrictions, and heartily agreed
when Gitlin referred to news organiza-
tions' distressing tendency to cover the
war as though it were a sporting event.
In other ACLU-NC efforts, an emer-
gency project was undertaken in mid-
February to gather support from local
media workers for an effort to abolish mil-
itary censorship on mideast reporting of
Operation Desert Storm.
The Pentagon restrictions include the
requirement that reporters travel in "pools"
accompanied at all times by military
escorts, who are present at interviews with
troops; and that all dispatches from these
pools must be reviewed in advance by a
military censor. The statement, which was
signed by 64 Bay Area reporters and edi-
tors, was transmitted to Washington for
release in conjunction with Senate
Hearings on this subject which began on
February 20.
ACLU's national office is also filing a
friend-of-the-court brief in a case brought
to challenge "pool" and other press restric-
tions, particularly as they relate to the mili-
tary's efforts to exclude free-lance
journalists from covering the Gulf war.
_ The lawsuit was filed on behalf of eleven
magazines and news agencies, including
San Francisco-based Mother Jones maga-
zine and Pacific News Service. Well
known writers, including Sydney
Schanberg and E. L. Doctorow, have
joined the action.
Conscientious Objectors
ACLU-NC's War Desk has received a
number of inquiries from enlistees with
questions regarding conscientious objector
status, as well as from young people and
their parents worried about the possibility
that a military draft may be reinstated.
ACLU-NC has recruited lawyers and oth-
ers to be trained as counselors for the
Central Committee for Conscientious
Objectors (CCCO), an organization that
provides military and draft counseling in
the Bay Area.
In response to these concerns and to
rumors that have begun circulating about
the possibility of a renewed draft, ACLU-
NC Field Representative Marcia Gallo
worked with CCCO to present a program,
billed as the "largest draft counseling
workshop ever held," at U.C. Berkeley's
Zellerbach auditorium on February 12th.
More than 700 young people and parents
attended the event, which was moderated
by H. Lee Halterman, chairperson of
ACLU-NC's board of directors. According
to Gallo, the effort allowed many young
people to examine the complex and serious
issues involved in making a decision to
become a conscientious objector.
The ACLU, believing that individuals
have a right to obey their consciences, and
that anti-war convictions need not be
expressed in traditional theistic or religious
terms, has long been concerned with pro-
tecting the legal rights of conscientious
objectors.
Outside the Bay Area
The ACLU-NC's 17 chapters through-
out the Northern California area are also
hearing increasing complaints about war-
related civil rights abuses. Our Mt. Diablo
Chapter reviewed a complaint from an
Arab-American who had been contacted
by the FBI, and the Monterey Chapter
received a number of hot-line calls
requesting both assistance with first
amendment abuses related to anti-war pro-
tests and information about CO status, the
rights of enlistees, and the draft. Chapter
hot-line coordinators are consulting with
the War Desk in the San Francisco office.
The Emergency War Desk was estab-
lished in part to assess civil liberties prob-
lems raised by the Gulf war, and to
provide the organization with the informa-
tion we will need to respond adequately to
those concerns.
At this stage, the desk continues to han-
dle about fifty calls a week. Our ability to
respond effectively and to marshal our
resources appropriately has _ clearly
improved with the consistent staffing that
is provided by our legal interns. The
Emergency War Desk will continue to
operate and can be reached by calling
(415) 621-2493. Ask for either Alan
Zeltserman or Anne Salisbury, from 9:00
ACLU chapter's
annual meeting to
elect a board of
directors.
Glasser has been ACLU executive
director since 1978. From 1970 to 1978
he was director of the New York Civil
Liberties Association, and from1967 to
1970 served as associate director of the
NY CLU.
Further information on the meeting,
as well as a ballot, will be sent to all San
Francisco Chapter members. People
interested in helping to organize the
event should call Phil Mehas, program
committee chairman, at 863-2733.
(Announcing..... An evening with....
ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser
Monday, April 22, at the San Francisco
to.5:00 p.m. every weekday.
Tom Tyburski/
Chapter
Meetings
(Chapter meetings are open to all inter-
ested members. Contact the chapter acti-
vist listed for your area.)
B-A-R-K (Berkeley-Albany-Richmond-
- Kensington) Chapter Meeting: (Usually
fourth Thursday) Meeting on Thursday,
March 28, 1991 in Berkeley. Contact
Julie. Houk, 415/848-4752, for further
information.
Wednesday, March 13, 1991. Focus on
police practices. For time and address of
meetings, please call Irv Kermish, 415/
836-4036 or Abe Feinberg, 415/451-
1122.
Fresno Chapter Meeting: (Usually third
Monday) Meeting on Monday, March
18, 1991 at San Joaquin Law School.
New members always welcome! For
time and address of meetings, please call
tact Gary Waldron, 209/221-1114 (eve.)
Gay Rights Chapter Meeting: (Usually
first Thursday) Meet Thursday, March 7,
1991. Meeting at the ACLU Office, 1663
Mission, #460, San Francisco at 7:00
p.m.. For more information, contact
Terese Friend, 415/272-9700.
Marin County Chapter Meeting:
(Third Monday) Meet Monday, March
18, 1991 at 7:30 p.m., Westamerica
Bank, Community Room, Strawberry
Shopping Center, Mill Valley. John
Crew, Director of ACLU-NC Police
Practices Project, will discuss "Ideas For
Police Reform and Accountability". For
more information, contact Bernie Moss,
415/332-3153.
Mid-Peninsula (Palo Alto area)
Chapter Meeting: (Usually first
Thursday) Chapter pot-luck on Thursday,
March 7, 1991 7:00 p.m. New members
welcome! For more information, contact
Harry Anisgard, 415/856-9186.
Monterey County Chapter Meeting:
The Monterey County Chapter will have
their Board Meeting on Tuesday, March
Library, Community Room, Pacific and
Madison Streets, Monterey. Dorothy
Ehrlich will be speaking at the Theater of
Monterey Community College on
Wednesday, March 20, 1991, 7:30 p.m.
on censorship. For more information,
contact Richard Criley, 408/624-7562.
Mt. Diablo (Contra Costa County)
Chapter Meeting: (Usually fourth
Thursday) Mt. Diablo Chapter will meet
on, Thursday, March 28, 1991. For more
information, contact Mildred Starkie,
415/934-0557. Calling all teachers: Are
you interested in working with the chap-
ter on a civil liberties essay contest for
students? If so, contact Mildred Starkie,
number above.
North Peninsula (San Mateo area)
Chapter Meeting: (Usually third
Monday) March meeting will be on
Tuesday, March 19, 1991. For more
information, contact Emily Skolnick, 340-
9834. Note: The North Pen Chapter
has a new Hotline number: 579-1789.
The Chapter Annual Meeting will be on
Sunday, May 5, 1991, 2:30 p.m. at the
Beresford Center, 2720 Alameda De Las
Pulgas. A light buffet will be offered. The
featured speakers will be ACLU-NC
Executive Director Dorothy Ehrlich and
Larry Bensky, National Affairs
Correspondent for Pacifica Radio. The
winners of the High School Essay
Contest will be presented. -
Earl Warren (Oakland/Alameda
County) Chapter Meeting: (Usually
second Wednesday) Meeting on.
the chapter hotline 209/225-7380 or con- -
5, 1991 at 7:30 p.m. at the Monterey
Field Program Monthly
Meetings
North Valley (Shasta, Siskiyou,
Tehema, and _ Trinity Counties)
Chapter Meeting: (Usually fourth
Wednesday) March 27, 1991, Board
Meeting at 6:30 p.m. and the Chapter
Meeting at 7:00 pm. at MHarry's
Restaurant, Cypress and Hilltop in
Redding. For more information contact
Frank Treadway, 916/365-4336 or 916/
241-7725.
Sacramento Valley Chapter Meeting:
(Usually second Wednesday) Special
Meeting on March 28, 1991, 7:00 pm at
the Sacramento County Offices, 700 H
Street, Hearing Room 1. John Crew,
Director of the ACLU-NC Police
Practices Project, will discuss develop-
ment of a Police Practices Committee for
the Sacramento Area. For information,
contact Ruth Ordas, 916/488-9956.
San Francisco Chapter Meeting:
(Usually third 0x00A7 Monday) Meet
Wednesday, March 18, 1991 7:00 p.m.
at ACLU office, 1663 Mission, #460,
San Francisco. The Annual Meeting of
the San Francisco Chapter will be held
on Monday, April 22, at the First
Unitarian Church in San Francisco at
6:00 p.m. Featured speaker will be Ira
Glasser of the National Office. For more
information call Leon Seville, 415/681-
4747. :
Santa Clara Valley Chapter Meeting:
(Usually first Tuesday) Meet March 5,
1991 7:00 p.m. at Commerce Bank
Building, 111 West St. John Street, 2nd
Floor Conference Room, San Jose.
Contact John Holly, 408/554-9478, for .
further information.
Santa Cruz County Chapter Meeting:
(Usually second Wednesday) Meet
Wednesday, March 13, 1991 at 7:15
p.m.. Chapter will continue to work on
combatting Hate Crimes. Look for pro-
gram on Homeless issues in May.
Contact Keith Lesar, 408/688-1666, for
further information.
Sonoma County Chapter Meeting:
(Third Thursday of the month) Meet
Thursday, March 21, 1991 7:30 p.m., 821
Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. All mem-
bers welcome. Contact Fran Byrn, 707]
546-3237.
Stockton Chapter Meeting: For infor-
mation contact Beverly Ford 209/948-
6759.
Yolo County Chapter Meeting: (Third
Thursday of the month) For more infor-
mation, contact Doug Powers, 916/756- 0x00B0
8274.
Field -
Committee
Meetings
(All meetings except those noted will be
held at the ACLU-NC Office, 1663
Mission Street, Suite 460, San Francisco.
_To RSVP, or for more information, con-
tact Marcia Gallo or Michele Hurtado at
the ACLU-NC 415/621-2493.)
Student Outreach Committee:
(Usually third Saturday) Contact
Marcia Gallo, number above, for more
information.
Pro-Choice Action Campaign: (Usually
third Tuesday) Contact Marcia Gallo,
number above, for more information.
Death Penalty Action Campaign:
Contact Marcia Gallo, number above,
for more information.