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Volume XXXX-

1975 Bill of Rights Celebration:

Fenn benefit to highlight |

November-December 1975, San Francisco

No. 8

rights contributions of women

_ By DEBBE BOYCE

Administrative Assistant

The American Civil Liberties Union

Foundation of Northern Caifornia will

celebrate the 184th anniversary of the

Bill of Rights on Sunday, December 14,

at the Sheraton Palace Hotel's Grand

Ballroom. Innovation is the key to this

year's Bill of Rights Day which will take

on an entirely new and entertaining

format.

_ The event will be hosted by Dorothy -

Smith Patterson,

member. since 1972, and an active

ACLU-NC_ Board

participant in Women for Peace and

the Medical Committee for Human

Rights.

The Mistress of Conc HOLES for the

celebration will be Joy Carlin, a twenty

year veteran of the theater, currently

appearing with the American Con-:

In December of -

setvatory Theater.

1973, Ms. Carlin became the first

woman to direct a play for A.C.T. when ~

she directed Lorca's ""Bernarda Alba'"'.

A graduate of the University of

Chicago, Ms. Carlin studied at Yale

Drama School with Lee Strasberg.

Along with playing major roles in the .

theater she has also appeared in TV

and films.

In honor of International Women's

Year, this year's event will feature

dramatic presentations by professional

`actors and actresses on the civil liberties

contributions of women. Armed with

research provided by Dru Ramey,

Nancy McDermid, and Marilyn Patel

(ACLU-NC _ Board Members),

JOY CARLIN

Stephanie Smith, of the Berkeley Stage:

is providing the artistic

staging, and

She is being

Madeline

Company,

direction by writing,

directing the sketches.

assisted by scriptwriter,

Puccioni. ce

The Third Annual Earl Warren Civil

Liberties Awards will be presented to

ACLU-NC founders: Helen Salz, who

will be attending the celebration, and

the late Alexander Meiklejohn. Mrs.

Helen Meiklejohn will accept the ward

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Molly Ivins to be speaker

"Molly Ivins has been called `"`one of

_the funniest writers in America.'' She's

also a fire-breathing public speaker,

with a righteous concern for human

dignity and an unbridled irreverence

toward institutions and practices that

threaten civil liberties and personal

freedom.

A native Texan who went back home,

Molly is the Co-editor of the `Yexas

Observer, one of the most highly

respected political news journals in the

United States. Her freelance work has

appeared in The New York Times,

The Washington Post, Atlantic, The

Los Angeles Times and_ other

publications. She is also a frequent

contributor to the Civil Liberties

Review.

`Ivins pursued her education at Smith

College in Massachusetts (B.A. in

history), Columbia University (Masters

in journalism), and the Institute of

Political Sciences in Paris.

Her journalistic career began at the

Houston Chronicle, where, in her own

words, she "Tapidly worked her 1 up

to sewer editor."'

She then spent three years willy the

continued on page 2

MOLLY IVINS

Cee sD a we a el oR

~ Co-founder

Helen Salz

to be honored

HELEN SALZ, at 92 years of age,

richly deserves the honor shortly to

be bestowed on her by the American

Civil Liberties Union of Northern

California. A lifetime resident of San

Francisco, she will be honored (along

with the late Dr.

Meiklejohn) with the Earl Warren

Civil Liberties Award on Sunday,

December 14, for her outstanding

contributions to civil liberties.

She has been a guiding force

history. In 1934, viewing the vigilante

violence and police lawlessness which

accompanied San ~ Francisco's

general strike, Mrs. Salz enlisted the

aid of Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn,

distinguished educator and defender

of free speech, for the purpose of

establishing a local civil liberties

union. The American Civil Liberties

Union of Northern California was

thereby permanently established to

protect the constitutional rights of all

persons.

Helen Salz is a lifetime member of

ACLU and serves on the ACLU-NC

Board of Directors as Vice Chair-

person for life. The organization

grew from a handful of devoted civil

libertarians to one with fifteen

chapters throughout Northern

California, with a membership of

over 18,000.

Mrs. Salz has actively supported

the arts through assistance to young

artists and with generous donations

_ of paintings and other art objects to

the University of California and to

the San Francisco Public Library.

In 1918, Helen Salz, along with

) her husband and Flora and

Lawrence Arnstein, founded the

Presido Open Air School, the first

progressive school in the Bay Area. It

Alexander

throughout ACLU-NC's 42-year -

has been published

- three

grandchildren and great-grand-

HELEN SALZ

continues today under the name

Presidio Hill School.

Helen Salz is a poet, and -her work

in poetry

magazines and anthologies, as well

as one collection privately published

entitled Poems and Pictures, printed

-by Adrian Wilson. Her watercolors

and drawings have been exhibited in

museums and galleries actoss the

United States. She is a linguist,

fluent in Italian, French, German,

and Russian, as well as her native

tongue.

For 46 years, she was the wife of

the late Ansley Salz - businessman,

violinist, and art collector. Mr. Salz

.served on the National War Labor

Board during World War II, and

chaired a number of California state

commissions. They had one son and

daughters - and many

children.

Few people can claim the ac-

complishments of Helen Salz.

Through her dedication, the political

and humanitarian environment of

Northern California have been vastly

improved. Weare grateful to her and

_ delighted to have this opportunity to

honor her.

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Celebration

continued from page I

on his behalf. The awards will be

presented by Eva Jefferson Paterson,

former director of ACLU-NC Students'

Rights Project, who is _ currently

_ working as an attorney for the Alameda -

Legal Aid Society, and Louise Roth-

man-Riemer, former Chairperson of the

Oakland Chapter, and plaintiff in.

ACLU-NC's case Riemer v. Jensen (suit

challenging the prostitution laws in.

Alameda County).

The Major address for the event will

be given by Molly Ivins, Co-editor of

The Texas Observer and freelance

writer, noted as ``one of the funniest

_ writers in America."'

The celebration will begin at 7:00

p.m. with no host cocktails and the

main program will commence at 8:00

p.m. Tickets are available at the ACLU-

continued from page I

Minneapolis Tribune, where she was

the first woman police reporter, and

later covered a beat called ""movements

for social change," which included

militant indians, student radicals,

liberated women, and "a _ motley

assortment: of other misfits and

troublemakers.'' She received an award

in 1969 in the Minnesota AP

Newswriting Contest as well as. first

place in the division for "`Best Series,"'

plus. several . awards. for. spot

newswriting from. the. Twin Cities

Newspaper Guild.

In 1970, she returned to Texas,

citing, among other things, the Texans'

`pleasant open vulgarity" as one of the

attractions. ``I rather relish," she wrote,

"the political situation here, if only

because there is no shortage of proper -

villains in Texas ... The battles here

are battles worth fighting."

Writing in the Civil Liberties Review

in Fall of 1974, Ivins displays. her

typical hardnose humor:

"In June of this year, the very

first, Texas. Gay, Conference was _.

held in Fort: Worth.: During a

workshop on "Dealing with Public

Officials," a Houston gay group

called Integrity released the results

_of its recent poll of the Texas

Legislature. In response to the

question, ``Do you favor the im-

position of religious or moral

convictions on one group by

-another?"' 15% of the state's

lawmakers who replied said,

"Yes.'' The unanimous reaction to

this intelligence by those familiar

with the Legislature was a shocked,

"Only 15%?! " :

Molly Ivins will be the main speaker

at the 184th Anniversary Celebration of

the Bill of Rights on Sunday evening,

December 14, 1975, at the Sheraton-

Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

DOROTHY PATTERSON

NC office for a modest $3.00, priced for

friends and family.

The 1975 Bill of Rights Day

Celebration is being coordinated by

ACLU-NC staff member Clarence

Maloney, whose unceasing energy over

the past four months has resulted in

what will be one of the most en-|

tertaining programs sponsored by

ACLU-NC. He has been assisted in the

program planning and _ fundraising

effort for the event by Fran Strauss, an

ACLU-NC Board member who has

dedicated her services for the past three

years to ensuring a successful Bill of

Rights Day Celebration.

This year's anniversary of the Bill of

Rights has been planned as a

celebration should be - with music,

entertainment, and the presentation of

two well-deserved awards. Come

celebrate the Bill of Rights, Sunday,

December 14 at the Sheraton Palace

Hotel in San Francisco.

Meiklejohn to

be honored

Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn was one

of the 50 founders of national ACLU

in 1920 and also helped to found the

ACLU of Northern California af-

filiate in September, 1934. Dr.

Meiklejohn was a member of the

Board of Directors of ACLU-NC for

thirty years, from 1934 until 1964,

serving as its vice-chairman for many

years. He was also a member of

ACLU's National Committee.

uncompromising foe. of HUAC,

loyalty oaths and McCarthyism. He

insisted that under the First

Amendment, political freedom may

not be limited. And he fought for the

_ right of academic communities to

_ govern themselves.

Dr. Meiklejohn attended Brown

and Cornell universities. He taught

philosophy at Brown and served as

President of Amherst College from

1912 to 1923. At Ambherst, Dr.

troduction of his notable series of

experimental projects in liberal

education. In 1926 he became

professor of philosophy at the

University of Wisconsin, where he

established the now famous Ex-

perimental College "to formulate

and to test under experimental

conditions, suggestions for the

improvement of methods of

Alexander Meiklejohn was an

_ wife Helen, nee Everett, conducted

renown educator, recipient of the

Meiklejohn undertook the in- December 14, on the 184th. an-

~ Warren Civil Liberties Award for

the field of social and economic

`institutions, will accept the award for

DR. ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN

teaching, the content of study and

the determining conditions of un-

dergraduate liberal education."' In

the 1930's Dr. Meiklejohn and his

the San Francisco School for Social

Research, accomplishing out-

standing work in adult education,

particularly among industrial and

underpriviledged groups.

Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, world-

Presidential Medal of Freedom and

one of the nation's leading civil

libertarians died in December of

1964 at the age of 92. On Sunday,

niversary of the Bill of Rights,

Alexander Meiklejohn will be

honored posthumously with the Earl

outstanding service to civil liberties

in Northern California. His wife

Helen, an economist and writer in

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ACLU challenges `Manson'

Before starting to select jurors for the

trial of Lynette `""Squeaky'' Fromme on

charges of attempting to assassinate the

President, Chief U.S. District Judge

Thomas V. MacBride banned the film

``Manson" in the twenty-six counties

under his jurisdiction. He ordered that

the ban be in effect until a jury in the

Fromme trial is either chosen and

sequestered, or if they are not locked up

during the trial, until a verdict is

reached.

Fromme and her public defender co-

counsel asked for the order arguing that

the film would prejudice potential

jurors against her. They made no

factual showing that the film would

make selection of an unbiased jury

impossible and only presented the film

itself as support for their motion. The

_judge's findings were that the free press

Smith and

Madeline Puccioni (above)

wrote and directed the

dramatic sketches for the

event.

Eva Jefferson Paterson

and Louise Rothman-Riemer

(left) will present the Earl

Warren Civil Liberties

Awards.

Stephanie

rights of the producer-distributor and

the fair trial rights of Fromme were

`irreconcilable' and that the former

had to yield to the latter.

ACLU-NC Legal Director Charles

Marson responded immediately saying,

"The judge went too far in directly

restraining the film, which enjoys the

same rights as radio, television, or

newspapers. There is a world of dif-_

ference between ordering lawyers,

police and other officers of the court not

to talk to the media about a case and in

ordering the media itself not to talk.

"If Judge MacBride can tell theaters

not to show movies about the Manson

family in those counties, he could also

tell Newsweek not to distribute articles

about the Manson family, or bookstores

not sell the Bugliosi book Helter

Skelter."

On October 24, ACLU filed suit on

behalf of Jerry Evans of Sacramento,

Larry Berg of Davis, and Fred Herman,

a film critic for a Modesto paper, who

claimed they have a right to see the

film. Judge MacBride refused' the

film gag order

ACLU's request to cancel the gag order.

Marson immediately filed a notice of

appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of

Appeals and asked that court to stay

the execution of MacBride's order until

a hearing could be held. The Ninth

Circuit postponed its decision on the

stay so Marson applied for an

emergency stay from U.S. Supreme

Court Justice William O. Douglas..

Both applications were pending when

a jury had finally been selected and

sequestered by MacBride. Justice

Douglas resigned from the court before

responding and the Ninth Circuit

dismissed the case on the ground that it

had become moot.

Marson plans to request a re-hearing

by the Ninth Circuit, arguing that

MacBride's order should be reviewed,

and its constitutionality determined,

because a similar order could be issued

by Judge MacBride or another judge in

the future. Marson said `Judge

MacBride's ban on the film goes way

beyond any permissible gag orders

under federal law."'

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LEGISLATIVE

New laws provide greater

arrest records protections

By MARY WILLANS-IZETT

Legislative Assistant -

Last April, the ACLU News

published a chart explaining the then

current laws covering California Arrest

Record Remedies, prepared by

Stanford Law Student Jeffrey Ross.

Since that date, there have been several (c)

legislative and legal improvements in

the system.

At that time, there were only very

weak protections for innocent adults

who were wrongly arrested and there

were numerous loopholes allowing for

abuse of the arrest records of juveniles.

Arrest records still harm countless

individuals but the following reforms

will provide at least some of the needed

protections. ,

S.B. 299, by Senator George

Moscone, Chapter 904 of the Statutes of

1975, effective January 1, 1976 provides

as follows:

`Whenever a person is acquitted ofa

charge and it appears to the judge

presiding at the trial wherein such

acquittal occurred that the defendant

was factually innocent of the charge,

the judge may order that the records in

the case be sealed, including any record

of arrest or detention, upon the written

or oral motion of any party in the case

or the court, and with notice to all

parties to the case. If such an order is

made, the court shall give to the

defendant a copy of such order and

inform the defendant that he may

thereafter state that he was not arrested

for such charge and that he was found

innocent of such charge by the court."

The bill also requires that the Justice

Department be informed of the court

order to seal the record, and that the

state Bureau of Criminal Identification

and Investigation must in turn notify all

law enforcement agencies which had

received information on the arrest that

the record has been sealed. :

It is also the present law, under Penal

Code Section 849, that if a person is

arrested by a peace officer and released

without having a complaint filed

(excepting arrests for intoxication), it

shall be so noted on the record, and the

arrest shall be deemed a detention only.

Under A.B. 1277, by Assemblyman

-MAYDAY

The National Capital Area Civil

Liberties Union (our Washington, D.C.

area affiliate) is still trying to- locate -

some of the 1,200 people who were

awarded $10,000 each in damages in

the well-known May Day case, Dellums

v. Powell.

Each of the 600 missing persons

stands to lose $10,000 if he cannot be

located. Specifically, the NCACLU

seeks to contact each of the people

arrested on the steps of the United

States Capitol on May S, 1971.

Anyone who believes he is entitled to

damages under this class action suit

should write NCACLU-May Day, 1345

E Street N.W., Washington D.C. 20004

or call (202) 638-6263.

- Investigation.

Sieroty (Statutes 1975, Chapter 1117),

the person will also be issued a cer-.

tificate describing the action as a

detention, and any references to arrest

are to be deleted from the records of the

arresting agency and the Bureau of

Criminal Identification and

The procedure for reviewing your rap

_ sheet has also been improved. Under

S.B. 763, by Senator Song, the

Department of Justice will be required,

after January 1, "`if the applicant is

unable to review the record at the time

and place set by the department,

authorize the applicant to review the

record at any police department or

sheriff's office which agrees to make the

record available to the applicant.'

(Penal Code Section 11124 as amended

by Statutes 1975, Chapter 667.)

On the legal side, the First District

Court of Appeal has strongly stated that -

under the Equal Protection Clause, a

person who has been arrested but has

had the charges,against him dismissed

at the preliminary hearing, may be

entitled to have his record sealed.

In McMahon vy. Municipal Court, 6

Cal. App. 3d 194 (1970), the Second

District'Court of Appeal held that if a

minor who had been accused of a crime (c)

in a petition to the juvenile court, and

had been convicted, was entitled to have

that record sealed when he reached

majority, then a minor who had been

arrested as an adult but had not even

had a criminal complaint filed against

him was certainly entitled to have his

record sealed also.

On September 29 of this year, the

First District Court of Appeal decided,

in People v. Municipal Court

(Blumenshine), 51 Cal. App. 3d 796,

that because the Legislature has made

-ho provision for arrest records to be

destroyed under any circumstances, the

Municipal Court was incorrect in or-

dering Mr. Blumenshine's arrest record

destroyed after he was discharged

Policy rescinded

Last month's ACLU News cod

that the Board of Directors adopted a

. policy recently on nuclear power and its

threat to civil liberties. That policy

statement identified civil liberties

problems in the security measures

necessary to protect the radio-active

wastes, the secrecy and withholding of

vital information from the public by

federal agencies, and the health

dangers of the nuclear waste-products

themselves.

At its November meeting, the Board

of Directors reconsidered its nuclear

power policy. Some members of the

Board felt that the policy had been

_adopted without the in-depth con-

sideration which is warranted for such a

complex matter. The view was also

expressed, that if the Board is to havea

policy on nuclear power, the statement

should express more fully and clearly

the civil liberties ramifications of

aclu news 3

Nov.-Dec.

Eason Monroe

(1909 - 1975)

A great man died this past month

here in San Francisco. Eason

_ Monroe, born ironically in Loyalton,

munity north of Lake Tahoe, died at

his home on October 20th after a

long bout with lung cancer.

Eason was executive director of

the ACLU of Southern California for

twenty years, from 1952 to 1972. His

tenure with the ACLU was oc-

casioned by his dismissal. from San

Francisco State College in 1951 for

refusing to sign the "loyalty oath"

required by the Levering Act. He was

the chairman of the Language Arts

Department, but his principled

refusal on the Levering Oath spelled

the end of his academic career. The

Levering Oath was finally declared

unconstitutional in 1967.

. During his years with the ACLU,

Eason moved both the Southern

California affiliate and the National

ACLU to new frontiers of civil

liberties activism. He led major

campaigns against capital punish-

ment, school segregation and racial

and sexual injustice. Also during his

tenure, the ACLU of Southern

California grew from 800 to more

than 15,000 members.

. A memorial resolution recently

adopted `by the National ACLU

stated in part: `"`California has

produced its fair share of heroic

`figures. Eason Monroe was one of

them. The American Civil Liberties

Union is a finer instrumentality for

the protection and furtherance of the

constitutional rights of all people

because of Eason Monroe's con-

California, a small mining com-

EASON MONROE

`tribution to the never-ending

struggle. The state of California and

the nation are beneficiaries of his

devotion to the principles for which

the ACLU stands."

In 1972, Eason's own lawsuit for

reinstatement at San Francisco State

was finally won. He returned to the

institution which had spurned him

21 years previously and taught there

until only a few months ago when he_ |

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The man born in Lapiiton

remained loyal to his principles and

his belief in what the Bill of Rights .

said and stood for throughout his

life. Civil libertarians in California

and throughout the nation will sorely

' miss Eason Monroe.

He is survived by his wife Laura,

who was associate director of ACLU-

NC after they moved to San Fran-

cisco. She later served as executive _

director of the Alameda County

- American Cancer Society. He also

- leaves his son, :

daughters, Marilyn and Jamie, and

Michael, two

two granddaughters.

Eason asked that there be no

memorial service but that gifts in his

honor be donated to the ACLU of (c)

Northern California or the ACLU of

Southern California.

under Penal Code Section 871 (in-

sufficient cause to believe he had

committed a public offense). It then

declared, citing McMahon and the

equal protection of the laws, that "`{hJad

the municipal court ordered appellant's

record sealed, it could well be held that

it acted within its powers."'

Board to study nuclear 1 issues further |

nuclear power development and

proliferation and the organizations

views on these matters.

The Executive Committee of the

Board recommended that the present

policy on nuclear power be rescinded

and .that a special committee of the

Board, drawing on such experts in the

field as deemed necessary, study the

question of nuclear power and civil

liberties and return a recommended

policy proposal to the Board ata ae :

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meeting.

The Board rated to accept this

recommendation and thereby rescinded

the nuclear power policy. The Board

also asked that the views of the

membership be solicited through the

newsletter on this matter. If you have

thoughts or views you would like to have

considered, write to:"- ACLU Nuclear

Power Committee, 814 Mission Street,

San Francisco, California 94103.

Legislative.

meeting planned

On Saturday, January 17, 1976

from 11 a.m. to 3p.m., 4-Conference -

on Legislative Action will be held at'

the ACLU offices, 814 Mission Street

in San Francisco. The conference,

which has been planned by the

Chapter Committee, will be a ``how

to" event with an emphasis on

setting up the machinery for

organizing the chapters and the

general membership into effective

lobbying units to further the goals of

the ACLU in local, state, and

national legislative matters.

Telephone trees, letter writing

committees, visitation groups and

other aspects of legislative

organization will be discussed. The

legislative staff of the ACLU will be

persent to explain how they operate

and what assistance they need from

the chapters and membership.

_ A regular, business meeting of the

`Chapter Committee will be held at 10

a.m. the same day and any chapter

people who plan to attend the

Legislative Conference are urged also

to attend the Committee meeting.

Details on the conference will be

sent to each chapter. If you would

like to attend, contact your local

chapter or the affiliate office.

avin

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Nov. -Dec.

San F rancisco

STOP S.1, the Criminal Justice

Reform Act of 1975 by attending the

San Francisco Chapter's Community

Meeting on Sunday, December 7, 7:30

p.m., at Congregation Beth Sholom,

14th Avenue and Clement Street. Frank

Wilkinson, Executive Director of the

National Committee Against Repressive

Legislation will`speak on the ``Threats

to Civil Liberties in Senate Bill No. 1".

Everyone is welcome ... come and

bring your friends. |

MEMBERSHIP CALL-IN J is.

scheduled for December 1, 6 p.m. at the (c)

Chapter. office, 814 Mission Street.

Some members have not renewed their

membership, they need reminding. We

need as many Chapter members as

possible to assist us. If you can par-

ticipate in the membership call in,

please call the Chapter office 777-4880.

Our annual meeting held last month

was highly successful. An important

part of the-meeting was devoted to the

Civil Liberties and the Mayoral

Campaign. Nearly all candidates for

Mayor attended and responded to the

Civil Liberties Questionnaire prepared

and distributed by the committee under

the leadership of Andy Moran.

The Chapter's Second Annual Essay =

Contest for San Francisco High School

students is eff to a good start. The topic

is ``Civil Liberties - The Bill of Rights

and Me''. Anyone desiring additional

information, please contact the Chapter

office, 777-4880.

Members of the Board have aceepted

~ speaking engagements on behalf of and

to bring information to the community

on S.1. They were: Ernest Fleischman,

Anson Moran and Richard Rogers, a

newly elected member to the Board.

Reminder: Chapter members are

always welcome to attend Board of

Directors meetings. Should you wish to

attend, please call the office ahead of

time and advise our staff member

accordingly.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Oakland -

Captain J. Colletti of de Oakland

Police Department discussed _ civil

liberties from a police perspective at the

November meeting of the chapter. As

The Chapter has been actively involved

in the jail and prostitution issues in the

- county, it was most informative to have

a better understanding of where the

police department is coming from.

Chapter committees continue to be

active and all are looking for new

members to join their ranks. The

Political Repression Committee has had

quite a bit of success obtaining

signatures for their petition requesting

Committees of Congress to investigate

the CIA, FBI, and IRS, particularly

asking them to look into the. civil

liberties abuses suffered by all minority

and civil rights organizations. They are

also continuing their attack on S.1.

The Jail Committee is continuing its

~ watch-dogging of that issue in Alameda

County. They have also submitted a

letter to the Judicial Coordinating

Committee for Pretrial Services,

stressing ACLU's concerns regarding

pre-trial alternatives. The Committee is

also researching how the greater Boston

area, with a larger population than

Alameda County, has so few pre-trial

detainees - less than 400 compared to

Alameda County's 800.

The Privacy Committee, as well as

the Jail Committee, are looking into

legislation in their respective areas and |

will soon be asking .the - Chapter

membership to actively support or

oppose specific legislation. The Privacy

Committee is also exploring the use of (c)

computer systems within the county

and run by the county.

The Legal Committee is continuing

to receive a large number of calls on the

Chapter's new phone service (534-

ACLU). Because of the large number of

calls received, the Committee could use

more non-lawyers who are interested in

screening calls. Anyone interested, call

Janice Lapides at 339-9781. Training

will be provided. =

The December meeting of the

Chapter will be on the 17th at the

Sumitomo Bank, downtown Oakland,

at 7:30 p.m. All are invited.

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Mt. Diablo

The next meeting of the Chapter

Board will be on Monday, December 15

at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Johnson

Clark, 6 Blackthorne Road, Lafayette

(283-1747 or 254-4523). All chapter

members are invited to attend.

The Board is engaged in several

projects. The petition to bring the new

Contra Costa County jail to a vote of the

electorate was successful. The Chapter

is still awaiting action by the Board of

Supervisors on the petition. Also, the

Chapter has successfully gotten the

Lafayette ordinance prohibiting fortune

tellers modified and is opposing a

`proposed County ordinance on fortune

tellers.

An evening at the theater featuring

the Lafayette Dramatuers is planned

for early 1976 as a fundraiser, and the

Board has decided to sponsor an essay

contest in the schools in Spring of 1976.

More people are needed on the Board

to actively participate in the Chapter's

work. A new publicity chairperson is (c)

especially needed. Try to attend the

next chapter meeting and find out how

_ you can help.

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Yolo

The Yolo County Chapter has kept

very active of recent planning several

exciting upcoming events and con-

tinuing its YgpFoUs legal assistance

_ program.

In the planning stages for next kune

26th and 27th is a conference to be

sponsored by the Yolo County chapter

intitled ``Civil Liberties and Social.

Order: A Bicentennial Projection."

Scheduled to be held on the U.C. Davis

campus, the conference will stress our

heritage of freedom and examine the

effects of recent and future develop-

ments within our society on our civil

liberties.

Attending the conference will be

several speakers recognized nationally

and internationally for their views upon

the effects of technology and societal

changes upon personal freedoms. The

event will be advertised across the

-nation and all interested persons are_

invited.

Also in the planning stages is a

vigorous fund-raising drive to be kicked -

off in January with a recruitment

cocktail party.

The legal affairs committee of the

Yolo chapter can now look back on a

very busy and successful year of legal

action. The committee, under the

- direction of chairperson Tom Frankel

and with assistance of several volunteer

attorneys, has tackled such issues as

affirmative action policies of the public

schools, field interrogation records of a

local police department, and the

`promotion policies of the State College

system. Also of concern to the Yolo

County chapter has been the rights of

farm laborers in the support of union

organizer field access rights and the use

of public facilities by farm labor unions.

The chapter has also been examining

the extradition procedures of Yolo

County and given support to the

Sacramento Chapter in the ACLU

action to fight court action preventing

showing the Manson family film during .

the trial of Ms. Fromme.

The Chapter now has a civil liberties

HOTLINE. The number in Davis is

758-1301. If you live in the Yolo County

area and feel your civil liberties have

been abused call the HOTLINE and

leave your name and number. You will

be called back by a member of the

chapter.

M Sten suis

The Mid-Peninsula Chapter will hold

its regular Board meeting on Tuesday,

December 18, from 8 p.m.-10 p.m., at

All Saints Episcopal Church on the

~ corner of Hamilton and Waverly in Palo

Alto.

Members interested in getting in-

volved or in just learning more about

the Chapter's activities are urged to

attend.

Santa Clara

About forty-five pickets spent the

afternoon of Halloween demonstrating

their protest against Senate Bill 1 and

against the recently disclosed un-

constitutional behavior of the FBI. The

scene of the dual purpose demon-

stration was the sidewalk around the

Pruneyard in Campbell. The locat FBI

office is pene in the Pruneyard

~ Tower.

A delegation of eight people visited

the FBI offices. prior to the demon-

stration. They represented ACLU,

WILPF, National Lawyers Guild, San

Jose Peace Center, Unitarian Churches,

San Jose Fellowship of Reconciliation

and the Northern Californians Against

-Repressive Legislation. The agent with |

whom the group had an appointment

was not present but another agent met

with the group, after unlocking the

door. The delegation was not invited

into the office, but stood in the hallway

while Chapter Chairman Mike Chatzky

read a statement to the agent standing

in the doorway.

The statement was presented in the

form of a letter to FBI Director Kelly

and protested the illegal activities of the

FBI and stated that the people will no

longer tolerate the abuse of their

constitutionally protected rights and

privileges. The letter urged the head of

the FBI to do all in his power to insure

that his office abides by the Con-

stitution of the U.S. and. all the laws

thereunder.

The delegates then adjourned to the -

sidewalk where they were joined by the

demonstrators who carried many very

colorful and cleverly worded picket

signs, using a Halloween theme. Some

of the signs read, "Unmask S 1,"

`Wiretapping is spooky," "FBI tricks

are no treat,"' etc.

The demonstration lasted about

three hours and the response from the |

passers-by was very positive. Shouts of

"right on" from passing cars and a

general interest in the pamphlets being

handed to people in cars and to

pedestrians indicated a climate sym-

pathetic to the protest.

- Local newspapers covered the event,

as did radio stations. Channel 11, the

San Jose TV station didn't, apparently,

feel that it was newsworthy or in-

teresting enough to cover.

Chapter members have been making

Free Speech Messages and doing radio .

interviews on Senate Bill 1 and the

Speakers Bureau has a speaker who

gave a number of talks on Senate Bill 1

at churches and local organizations

_ during the past month.

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Marin

Marin Chapter is currently involved

in their membership renewal campaign

`and determining a delegation to attend

the Bill of Rights Day Celebration. The

Chapter is also considering a Bicen-

tennial project as well as film on jail

conditions in Marin, to be shown over

cable TV.

The Chapter is considering litigation |

against the City of San Rafael for its

classification of an ecology flag as a

"sign" or "advertisement", and is

looking into the local CHP Surveillaner

of Sunday motorcyclists in West Marin.

David Mayer of the Marin Chapter is

working on regulations designed to

improve conditions in the detoxification

unit at Marin County jail, at the request

of the jail staff.

Sonoma

Sonoma County Chapter's annual

dinner will be December 12th at the

Santa Rosa Vets Memorial Building

across the street from the Sonoma

County Fairgrounds Racetrack. Dinner

will be $2 per person and cocktails will

- be served from 6:00 p.m. Al Siegler, 8th

district State Assemblyman will speak

after dinner. For more information, call

Eric Koenigshofer (707) 527-2703.

Chapter board member Dick Blair

was nominated and elected Treasurer,

replacing Peter Rosenwald, on the -

condition that. someone else perform

the publicity chores. Eric Koenigshofer

volunteered to assume the Publicity

Chairperson's duties and the board

agreed. The new treasurer, Dick Blair,

reported that after expenses the chapter

made a little more than $1,000 profit on

the ACLU picnic art auction that was

held at the Villa Chanticleer in

Healdsburg. Compared with the

previous year, the 1975 picture art

auction was a huge success.