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~ Protests Greet New

he Cinco de Mayo launching of the

T= Immigration Reform and Con-

trol Act was met with a storm of

protest in the Bay Area-and only a handful

of applicants to the legalization program.

"Unfortunately, today begins a 12-month

period. of legalization for some-and

discrimination for others," said ACLU-NC

Field Representative Marcia Gallo at a May

5 press conference at the ACLU-NC office.

Gallo was joined at the press conference

by ACLU-NC Board member Bill Tamayo

of the Asian Law Caucus and the National

Network for Immigrant and Refugee

Rights, Sylvia Baiz, an attorney with

Instituto Laboral de la. Raza; Francisco

Garcia, staff attorney with MALDEF; John

Prieskel, Director of the Fr. Moriarty Center

Central American Refugee Program; and

Gloria, a Salvadoran refugee who works

with CRECE, a refugee rights and services

program.

Tamayo warned that the new law will

"usher in a whole new period of discrim-

- ination, unlawful terminations, and depor-

tations for millions of people."

Chinese Exclusion Act

"For the Asian community in particular,"

Tamayo noted, "the implementation of the

new act is a telling reminder that the

discriminatory policies that shaped immi-

gration law in the past are still with us.

This is the 105th anniversary of the Chinese

Exclusion Act of 1882 and the same

sentiment that supported the exclusion of

Chinese is behind the passage of the

Simpson-Mazzoli bill."

Prieskel questioned whether undocu-

mented workers, and Central American

refugees in particular, would show up at

the INS office, ready to trust the INS with

their application for legalization. "After

years of running from the INS, of being

deported by the INS, refugees still see the

INS as a tool to exploit them," he said. __

That question was answered later in the

day as the major immigrant and refugee

rights coalitions joined forces to picket the

newly opened INS office which opened that

morning just across the street from the

ACLU.

Over a hundred people-including -

Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees,

attorneys, and civil liberties advocates-

gathered outside the almost empty offices.

Carrying signs and chanting, the protes-

tors heard a number of speakers denounce

the dangers in the new law.

"Employer sanctions, which will be

implemented on September 1, 1987, will

deny thousands the most basic of all rights -

the right to work," said Jeff Greendorfer

of the San Francisco Labor Council.

"Employer sanctions will also create more

job discrimination against minorities who

might `look or sound foreign.'

-"At the same time. some industries,

specifically agriculture, will have practically

limitless access to temporary workers. This

will make organizing of agricultural workers

even more difficult."

Anti-Discrimination Provision

Gallo targeted the Reagan administra-

tion's lack of implementation of the anti-

discrimination prohibitions of the new law.

"The Reagan administration did not

support the anti-discrimination measures in

Congress, and the proposed regulations

reflect that apparent hostility. There is only

minor indication that the Justice Depart-

ment has begun to establish the Office of

Special Counsel mandated by Congress six _

months ago despite the growing evidence

of job discrimination caused by the Act.

"Further the proposed regulations do not

envision the establishment of regional

offices for the Special Counsel-which

places a tremendous burden on _ people

suffering discrimination who would be

directing their complaints to a central office,

probably 3,000 miles away in Washington,

D:euro..-

"Even more troubling," Gallo added, "the

proposed regulations interpret this Act to

prohibit only intentional discrimmination-

continued on p. 7

Senate Cuts

Funds from

n May 28, the state Senate voted

19-17 to severely restrict Medi-Cal

funding for abortion in this year's

Budget Act. The narrow defeat followed

weeks of intense grassroots lobbying by

ACLU members and others committed to

abortion funding, and a May 4 poll showing

that a clear majority of Californians believe

that Medi-Cal funding for abortion must be

maintained.

The vote by the Senate, and an earlier

vote in the Assembly means that, for the

ninth consecutive year, both Senate and

Assembly versions of the Budget Act have

the same restrictive language and the

likelihood of changing it in Conference

Committee is slim. ;

ACLU-NC Field Representative Marcia

Gallo condemned the legislative vote. "Not

only did they not heed the opinions of their

constituents-55% of whom support Medi-

Cal abortion funding according to the

California Poll-but they are willing to:

sacrifice the health care and lives of the

80,000 women each year who depend on

Union Maid photos

Salvadoran children joined the protest at the S.F. INS office

Immigration Law

Medi-Cal Abortion

Budget

Medi-Cal funds for abortion.

"As the Budget Act goes to Conference

Committee and then to the floor, the

legislators must consider whether they are

willing to pass a budget which, according to

the California Supreme Court, violates the

state Constitution," Gallo said.

As in years past, the life-and-death

question of abortion funding 1s being fought

on the terrain of the approval of the Budget

Act.

Every year since 1978 the Legislature has

cut out the crucial Medi-Cal abortion funds.

Every year, the ACLU-NC has challenged

the Legislature's restrictions with a success-

ful lawsuit. Because of the ACLU-NC

challenges, funding has been maintained for

the 80,000 indigent women and teenagers

who need them each year. _

"But this year is different," explained

ACLU-NC Executive Director Dorothy

Ehrlich. "The three new appointees on the

California Supreme Court are joining two

justices who previously voted to rehear

arguments on this issue. There is only one

justice remaining from the 1981 decision

striking down the elimination of funding as

unconstitutional. See

"It is therefore unclear as to whether the

new court will honor legal precedent and

prevent the termination of Medi-Cal

abortion funds. That is why our

grassroots lobbying efforts in the Legislature

are even more important this year," she

added.

To fight the battle, the ACLU-NC,

Planned Parenthood, California Abortion

Rights League, NOW, and numerous other

groups formed a statewide coalition to lobby

for choice.

Speaking at a Sacramento press confer-

ence on May 12, three weeks after the

Assembly rejected a measure by Burt

Margolin which would have eliminated

restrictions on abortion funding, representa-

tives of the pro-choice groups outlined their

strategy. -

Mary Luke of Planned Parenthood

announced that her organization was

launching a public education campaign with

a full page ad in the Sacramento Bee.

continued on p. 5

aclu news

2 june 1987

OCC Director Resigns

hen Frank Schober resigned as

the Director of the San Francisco

Office of Citizen Complaints on

May 21, those who had been monitoring

the work of the OCC were not taken by

surprise. :

For several months, Schober's faulty

directorship of the agency, which was

established by the voters in 1982 to

investigate citizens' complaints against

police officers, had been under scrutiny by

the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,

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the City budget analyst, the Police Com-

mission, the San Francisco Bar Association,

the ACLU-NC and the press.

On May II, City Hall Budget Analyst .

Harvey Rose issued a management audit

of the OCC stating that the agency was

. guilty of shoddy management practices and

policies. The report noted that the OCC's

investigations were routinely plagued by

lengthy delays, records were sometimes

erased or changed and documents were

frequently missing from OCC files.

On May 12, the ACLU-NC Police

Practices Project issued a report, "The

Office of Citizen Complaints under

Director Frank J. Schober, Jr.: A

Question of Credibility." The 20-page

report prepared by Project Director John

Crew contrasts Schober's public state-

ments on the OCC with the record of

the OCC performance; it also documents

his involvement in a number of scan-

dalous incidents.

The summary is based almost exclu-

sively on Schober's publicly-released

reports to the Police Commission, his

guest columns in local newspapers, and

news accounts about the OCC.

Here are some examples of what the

report contains:

Complaint Investigation

SCHOBER'S CLAIM: "The OCC is

today embarked ... in fulfilling the

process directed in its Charter mandate"

to promptly, fairly, and impartially

investigate all complaints of misconduct.

THE RECORD: 87%. of OCC com-

plaints are dropped at the "preliminary"

stage. The remaining 13% of the com-

plaints take an average of six months

to complete in the "detailed investigation"

stage. :

~ SCHOBER'S CLAIM: "The OCC is

sustaining every case it can."

THE RECORD: Only 19 cases were

sustained out of 1,267 complaints filed

in 1986. 1985 figures show only 23 cases

were sustained out of 1,612. In Schober's

first two full years as director of the

agency less than 1.5% of the complaints

were sustained. This compares with a

nationwide average of 22% for civilian

review agencies and 9% for the widely

Bureau during the 1970s.

On average other civilian agencies are

15 times more likely to sustain com-

plaints of police misconduct than San

Franciscos OCC.

OCC Policy Recommendations

SCHOBER'S CLAIM: The OCC is

fulfilling [its mission] to make (policy and

training) recommendations to the

department.

THE RECORD: Schober's

recommendations include a call for better

parking facilities for officers' private cars.

OCC: A Question of

Credibility

SCHOBER'S CLAIM: Part of the

complaints filed.

_ plaints. Schober's stated goal of com-

to be "field training officer," a role model

discredited SFPD Internal Affairs

"policy".

"Implied Mission" of the OCC

OCC's goal is to reduce the number of

THE RECORD: Complaint reduction

of the OCC rather than the police

department, puts the agency in direct

conflict with its Charter mandate of

receiving and investigating all com-

plaint reduction has led to inappropriate

OCC practices and policies that ensure

fewer complaints will be filed and that

his complaint reduction goals will thus

be achieved.

Detailed Information

SCHOBER'S CLAIM: All "problem

officers" statistically identified by the

OCC "are being dealt with."

THE RECORD: Schober has admitted

that he does not track and does not know

what happens to officers identified as

"problems" by the OCC.

SCHOBER'S CLAIM: "The SFPD is

cooperating with and properly reacting

to the information being provided by the

information process set up by the OCC.

THE RECORD: An officer recently

singled out on an OCC "Early Warning

Report" as having a terrible complaint

record (10 complaints in 20 months,

including six in the first eight months ~

of 1986) was appointed by the SFPD

for new recruits. (One of those recruits

has since accused the officer of sexual

assault and harassment.)

~ OCC Scandals ~

Larry Lumpkin Shooting Investigation:

Larry Lumpkin was fatally shot by two

police officers in May 1986. Among the

many irregularities in the OCC inves-

tigation of the family's complaint against

the officers was the fact that two

investigators assigned to the case both

concluded that the shooting was not

justified, and yet Schober publicly stated

that the two did not agree on the initial

report.

The OCC's handling of the Lumpkin (c)

investigation is currently being investi-

continued on p. 7

~

Spurred by complaints from the Board

of Supervisors and the press, Mayor

Feinstein `asked the Police Commission to

examine another major problem with the

OCC- allegations that the agency improp-

- erly handled cases of police officers accused

of brutality and other misconduct.

Credibility

On May 18, less than a week after the

cricital management audit, the ACLU-NC

Police Practices Project issued its report,

"The Office of Citizen Complaints under -

Director Frank Schober, Jr.: A Question of

Credibility," (for excerpts of the ACLU-NC

report, see sidebar this page).

This fully documented expose, compiled

by Project Director attorney John Crew,

held Schober's statements and actions up

to the harshest light-reality. Carefully

dissecting Schober's two-and-a-half year

directorship of the agency and documenting

it with 76 footnotes, the ACLU-NC report

was a scathing indictment of mismanage-

ment and deception. "It is apparent that

the voters' wishes continue to be thwarted

by the very officials charged with imple-

menting the plan," the report concluded.

The ACLU-NC report was widely

covered in the press on May 20. Less than

24 hours later, Schober resigned.

"In the welter of criticism leveled at my

office by certain groups," he said in his

resignation letter to the Police Commission,

"I have become the major issue, and the

crucial needs of the Office of Citizen

Complaints are being neglected."

Ironically, some of the most damning

crticism of Schober, contained in a report

by the San Francisco Bar Association, was

published after his resignation.

The 38-page report prepared by a special

_ Bar Association committee following a two-

month investigation, was released on May

26. It revealed dozens of previously

unreported management problems at the

OCC and indicated that the agency was

in worse disorder than even its harshest

critics had charged.

Perhaps the most stunning allegation was

that Schober slurred minorities who

complained to the OCC about police abuse.

"It is natural for Blacks to lie," Schober told

his employee investigators, according to the

Bar report. "That is a characteristic they

developed in slave times when they lied to

their masters," he is quoted as_ saying.

Schober later denied making the comment.

Positive Image Campaign

In addition, the Bar report noted that

Schober:

e misused the agency's tiny staff by

requiring investigators to perform

unnecessary tasks, including interview-

ing models for a "positive image" ad

campaign for the SFPD;

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plaints forwarded to the OCC by city

officials or

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objectivity by failing to maintain its

autonomy from the police force.

The Bar report also called Schober an

"absentee administrator" who spent little

time in the office until his agency came

under fire earlier this year.

Following Schober's resignation, Mavor

Feinstein appointed a special nine-member

citizens advisory committee to improve the

OCC by setting guidelines for its day-to-

day operations and outlining the criteria for

selecting a successor to Schober.

The Bar Association report had recom-

mended the formation of such a committee.

The Mayor also announced that a

nationwide search for a new Director had

already begun.

The special committee will be chaired by

attorney Peter Mezey, a member of the Bar

Association's investigative team, and

includes representatives of the Black,

Chinese and gay communities, among

others.

According to ACLU-NC attorney Crew,

"The departure of Frank Schober is an

important first step in reforming the OCC.

"The formation of the special committee

to advise the Mayor and the Police

Commission is another important step.

"But we will not have won the battle until

the OCC fulfills the promise made to the

citizens of San Francisco of a watchdog

agency which will fairly, honestly and

effectively investigate police misconduct. _

"Until that time, the ACLU-NC and

others will continue to be vigilant and vocal

about the workings of this vital agency,"

-Crew concluded.

The work of the Police Practices Project

has just been extended with a recent grant

from the San Francisco Chapter of the

ACLU-NC. The generous. donation will

support the crucial work of the Project while

additional funding is sought.

VOLUNTEERS

NEEDED

The ACLU-NC is looking for sharp

volunteers who can help organize and

maintain the ACLU subject files. The

files, which include information on every

civil liberties issue from Abortion to

Zoning, are a primary resource for

attorneys, media spokespeople, reporters

and other researchers.

The subject files are under the.

supervision of ace librarian, volunteer

Clara MacDonald-but she desperately

needs assistance. If you have a back-

ground in library work, or are willing

to learn, and can spend an afternoon

a week (or more!), we urge you to call

Volunteer Coordinator Jean Hom at

415-621-2493.

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Rastafarians Win Damages in

Police Abuse Suit

Rastafarian priest who was falsely

arrested and beaten by a San Francisco

police officer was awarded in settlement

$35,000 in damages in May as a result of

an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit.

A.second Rastafarian who died of cancer

during the course of the lawsuit received

$3,000 for his surviving daughter.

The personal injury and civil rights

lawsuit, Stevens v. Hance, was filed in

February 1985 in San Francisco Superior

Court by ACLU-NC cooperating attorneys

James J. Garrett and Michael F Ram of

Morrison and Foerster and then ACLU-NC

staff attorney Amitai Schwartz.

The suit charged thatthe two Rastafarian

priests, Ras Ion and Ras Soma, were

standing in front of a Fillmore District home

when they were addressed by plainclothes

police officers in a manner disrespectful of

their religion. When they protested. the

harassment, they found themselves under

arrest for interfering with a police officer

and resisting arrest.

According to the lawsuit, Ras Ion and

Ras Soma were handcuffed, choked, and

ridiculed by the police officers, including

having their dreadlocks-the long wooly .

strands of beard and hair symbolic to their

religion-pulled out.

The suit further alleged that he

Hance beat and strip searched Ras Ion and

Ras Soma at the police station while Lt.

Huegle and Officer De Martini watched.

All charges against Ras Ion and Ras Soma -

were subsequently dropped.

Attorney Ram was pleased with the

settlement. "The only reason the City agreed

to pay this money is that there was extremely

strong evidence that Inspector Daniel Hance

systematically beat each plaintiff in a

holding cell at the Hall of Justice," Ram

said.

"We hope that Inspector Hance will now

think twice before beating up San Francisco

residents in the future," he added.

Ram also pointed out that this was not

the first time that there were complaints

against Hance for excessive force. "There

have been numerous other complaints of

brutality in recent years against this

particular officer," he noted.

Attorney John Crew of the ACLU-NC

Police: Practices Project added, "All

members of the San Francisco Police

Department must be made to understand

that an individual's unusual appearance or

non-traditional religious beliefs do not make

them fair game for police abuse.

"Police officers cannot be allowed to

brutalize any San Franciscan," Crew said.

"We hope this settlement will remind officers

of this simple truth."

ACLU Fights to Keep Disabled

Children's Records Private

n May 15, the ACLU-NC appealed a

1986 superior court decision that

developmentally disabled children may not

receive state-funded treatment unless

records of their intimate behavior are placed

in a centralized state computer.

ACLU-NC cooperating attorneys Mark

White and Anna Rossi of Rogers, Joseph,

O'Donnell and Quinn, and staff attorney

Margaret Crosby argue that the Depart-

ment of Developmental Services is violating

the children's individual privacy rights

established by Article I, Section 1 of the -

California Constitution.

The case was originally filed in Sacra-

mento Superior Court in 1985 on behalf

of two. developmentally disabled children -

who receive services funded by the Depart-

ment of Developmental Services.

As a condition of funding, the state

agency requires individualized, highly

detailed reports known as "CDERs." The

agency maintains the CDERs in its central

state computer, in a form which allows the

reported information to be identified by

individual client name.

"It is DDS's requirement of this personal

information in name-identifiable form

which we are challenging," explained

attorney White. "The DDS has numerous -

alternative means of compiling client

information which would fully serve its

administrative needs and, at the same time,

fully protect the constitutional privacy rights

of the children," said attorney White.

The trial court argued that the intimate

information contained in the CDERs was

protected by the State Constitution. The

ACLU charges that the trial court erred

in- finding that the current information

process of the DDS is justified by com-

pelling state interest.

De Lancie

Honored

Marlene De Lancie, a veteran ACLU

activist,

Kauffman/Roy Archibald Memorial Civil

Liberties Award by the North Peninsula

Chapter of the ACLU-NC at the chapter's

annual award brunch on May 3.

De Lancie first became a member of the ~

ACLU while a graduate student on the

Berkeley campus during the."loyalty oath

movement." She is currently Chapter

representative to the ACLU-NC Board of

Directors and has just been named Chair

of the Bill of Rights Fundraising

Committee.

Active in the pro-choice movement, De -

Lancie has served on the Board of Planned

Parenthood of San Mateo County and is

a member of the ACLU-NC Pro-Choice

`Task Force. She also serves on the Northern

California Coalition against the Death

Penalty.

The award brunch was addressed by

attorney James Brosnahan who spoke about

civil liberties and international law.

was presented with.the Meta.

Allende's Visa Denial

Wrong, Court Says

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? Human rights leader Hortensia Allende :

ore than four years after her speaking

tour to California was scuttled by the

U.S. State Department denial of a visa, a

federal judge in Massachusetts determined

that Hortensia Allende, widow of slain

Chilean president Salvador Allende, was

improperly denied entry into the United

States by the government.

On March 31, U.S. District Court Judge

Andrew A. Caffrey granted a summary

judgment to a group of plaintiffs including

religious leaders and scholars who had

issued an invitation to Mrs. Allende.

Allende and the inviters were represented

by Steven R. Shapiro of the New York Civil

Liberties Union, civil rights lawer Leonard

Boudin, and the ACIU-NC.

In January 1983, Mrs. Allende, an

internationally known human rights activist,

was invited by the Northern California

Ecumenical Council to speak in the Bay

Area during the March 1983 International

Women's Day Celebrations. Numerous

other universities and individuals, in

California and Massachusetts, extended

similar invitations to Mrs. Allende for ue

period of her planned visit.

In February 1983, Mrs. Allende applied

to the U.S. Embasssy in Mexico City, where

she lives in exile, for a nonimmigrant tourist

visa. On March 3, the day before her

departure to the U.S., the consular officer

denied her visa. The government cited

Subsection 27 of the Immigration and

Nationality Act which prohibits the issuance

of visas to "aliens ... whe seek to enter ~

the United States to engage in activities

which ... endanger the welfare, safety or

security of the United States."

The U.S. government said that Allende

was excludable because she was a member

of the Women's International Democratic

Federation and Honorary President of the

World Peace Council, two organization they

claimed are affiliated to the Communist

Party of the Soviet Union.

The former Chilean First Lady had been:

to the U.S. under every administration since

1973 except the Reagan administration.

ACLU-NC staff attorney Crosby hailed

the District Court ruling. "The use of the (c)

visa process is an impermissable and

unconstitutional abridgement of free

speech," she said.

"The practice of ideological exclusion is

inconsistent with the basic premises: of a

free society. The Administration's actions

deny American citizens the opportunity to

continued on p. 7

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David M. Balabanian

Incumbent: Yes

Nominated by: Board of Directors

Only those opinions which survive .

unrestricted debate are worthy of accep-

tance. The task of persuading the majority

to allow room for the unconventional never

ceases.

I share these two beliefs with the ACLU.

As a lawyer active in bar work, I often found

ACLU-NC defending basic freedoms which

the popular mood would have restricted.

I was pleased to accept an interim appoint-

ment to the Board and would be honored

to serve a full term.

Patsy Fulcher

Incumbent: Yes

Nominated by: Board of Directors

Since coming to the Board of Directors

in 1984, I have served on the Nominating,

Executive, Long Range Planning, Field,and

Legislative Committees. My long term

commitment and work in civil, women's,

and minority rights have been greatly

renforced by service on the Board of

Directors.

Due to the current climate and the

Courts, the role of ACLU in defense of

individual rights has become greatly

increased. The growing number of obstacles

] encounter in employee rights, reproductive

rights, and privacy rights for teens have

increased my resolve to work to bring those

- known. supporters of ACLU issues to

become more vocal. To this end and the

vital tasks before us, I want to continue

to participate in the work of the organi-

zation and its dedicated Board of Directors.

Antonio G. Gonzales

Incumbent: No

Nominated by: Board of Directors

For the past six years I have worked

extensively at the International Indian

Treaty Council, a non-governmental organ-

ization in consultative status at the United

Nations. In the course of my involvement

with the IITC I have participated four times

as an IITC delegate at the U.N. Commission

on Human Rights held in Geneva, Swit-

zerland, presenting the human rights and

land struggles of Indigenous. Nations of the

Americas and the Pacific.

I have come to realize that the particular

situation of Indigenous peoples throughout

the worid, at a time when Indian Nations

are still under colonial domination, neces-

sitates our understanding of the law and

economic systems.

I and the IITC look toward U.S.

attorneys to begin developing an awareness

of international laws and standards and to

begin to apply those instruments effectively

in domestic court cases for the protection

of civil and human rights. It is indeed a

privilege and an honor to be considered for

the ACLU Northern California Board of

Directors.

Poona S. Karpman,

M.D.

Incumbent: Yes

Nominated by: Board of Directors

For 17 years I have worked with and for

ACLU. The Marin County Board took me

in, in 1970. I served as Treasurer, Chair,

and Chapter Representative. I have been

on the ACLU-NC Board as a Member-at-

Large since 1983 and have served on the

Board Nominating Committee, the Devel-

opment Committee, and the Founders

Circle (Co-Chair).

Outside of ACLU I am a cardiologist at

Kaiser Hospital. I have been on the Board

of the San Francisco Heart Association and

have served as Vice-President in charge of

aclu news

june 1987 5

Community Programs and Research,

Chairman of the Personnel Committee, and

President.

I am also a court-appointed member of

the Adult Detention Advisory Committee

reporting to the Mayor and the Board of

Supervisors. I am a member of the

Physicians for Social Responsibility and

have spoken in public. fora as a pro-choice

spokesperson.

_ Inthis time of adversity and greater need

to defend civil liberties, I ask that you allow |

me another term to up my ante in this cause

and I ask you to consider doing the same.

Debbie Lee

`Incumbent: Yes

Nominated by: Board of Directors

Since 1984, I have served as an at- -large

member of the ACLU-NC. During the past

two years, I have been the chair of our

Northern California Chapter Conference

Planning Committee, as well as served on

the Board Nominating and Field

committees.

Since 1976 I have worked as an activist

in the field of domestic violence, and

minority and women's rights. My interest

in civil liberties began through this work

as I became increasingly involved in state

legislation. I beleive that the ACLU's work

through its public education and legislative

efforts plays a most critical role in protecting

civil liberties. I hope to continue this work

with the ACLU and help bring the

understanding and commitment of civil

liberties to a yet broader community.

Francisco Lobaco

Incumbent: Yes

Nominated by: Board of Directors

My introduction to the day-to-day world

of the ACLU-NC was in the summer of

1980 when I worked as a legal intern and

then as a volunteer attorney. I gained a

tremendous amount of respect for the

organization's vigilance in safe-guarding our

liberties. My brief tenure on the Board has

only strengthened that initial impression.

For the past several years I have

supervised law students and represented

poor people in housing-related matters as

a staff attorney for the East Palo Alto

Community Law Project-the - clinical

education project of Stanford Law School.

The recent changes in the California

courts will require additional commitment

and effort by the Board, staff, and mem-

bership in preserving and expanding the

civil rights. of all. I would like the oppor-

tunity to continue to serve on the Board.

Tom Lockard

Incumbent: Yes

Nominated by: Board of Directors

It is an honor to be nominated for the

ACLU-NC Board of Directors. I look

forward to the opportunity to contribute

to the continued success of ACLU-NC.

For the past two years I have enjoyed

working on the Investment Sub-Committee

of the Budget and Finance Committee.

Through this involvement I have been

introduced to the complexity of managing

the finances of a successful non-profit

operation. I look forward to continuing to

work on matters of finance as well as in

those areas of civil rights that insure access

to the legal system by immigrants and

refugees.

Before taking an advanced degree in

finance and becoming a banker in municipal

finance, I was a staff consultant to the

Foundation Task Force on Refugee Affairs.

`Working out of the Central YMCA, I

assisted Bay Area social service and

philanthropic organizations in targeting the

delivery and distribution of human services

and self-help funds to the growing com-

munities from Southeast Asia, Central |

America, and Eastern Europe.

Jack Londen

Incumbent: Yes

Nominated by: Board of Directors

I] began as a cooperating attorney seven

years ago on Jamison v. Farabee, in which

ACLU-NC obtained a consent decree that

restricted the drugging of persons involun-

tarily committed to mental institutions, and

on McKamey v. Mt. Diablo Unified School

District, a successful ACLU-NC challenge

to restrictions on access. to Ms. magazine

in school libraries.

-I have also worked on prison litigation,

a gay rights case, indigent criminal defense

in trial and appellate courts, and protecting

federal funding for legal services programs.

| am the nominee to become chair-elect of

the State Bar of California's Legal Services

Section this year.

I was appointed an at-large member of

the ACLU-NC Board last May. I would be

honored to continue on the Board.

Nancy S. Pemberton

Incumbent: Yes

Nominated by: Board of Directors

I am honored to have been a member

of the ACLU-NC Board since 1979 and the

Board Chairperson for the last three years.

During my tenure, I have chaired the

Development Committee and sat on a

number of organizational and substantive

committees.

I actively participated in the five-fold

growth of our individual donor program

between 1980 and 1987. The fundraising

campaigns have permitted the organization

to vastly expand its civil liberties program

over the last seven years.

This year I plan to participate in

ACLU-NC''s battle against California's death

penalty. ACLU-NC is rapidly becoming the

only voice in support of the rights of

criminal defendants. I am privileged. to be

a part of strengthening that voice.

Beverly Tucker

Incumbent: No

Nominated by: Board of Directors

During the next three years, the ACLU's.

clients will face an uphill battle against

conservative judges and an unsympathetic

state administration. The Board must

respond by developing creative new strate-

gies to serve the interests of its clients.

I have extensive and varied experience

in public interest law, including work as a

staff attorney for the California Department

of Fair Employment and Housing, as

associate general counsel for the United

Auto Workers, and currently as deputy

attorney general in the civil rights enforce-

ment unit of the California Attorney

General's Office. In those positions, I have

developed a familiarity with many of the

legal issues which concern the ACLU. I

currently serve as a member of the board

of governors of California Women Lawyers.

I look forward to serving on the board

of an organization which plays an indis-

pensable role in championing civil liberties

and the rights of minority groups.

Medi-Cal Funds |

continued from p. 1

ACLU-NC Field Representative Gallo

reminded the press of Justice Mathew

Tobriner's words in the landmark 1981

California Supreme Court decision: ... "the

decision whether or not to bear a child or

have an abortion is so private that each

woman-rich or poor-is guaranteed the

constitutional right to make this decision as

an individual, uncoerced by governmental

intrusion."

"We are here today to emphasize that

basic constitutional rights-suclvas the right

to choose-cannot be subject to a means

test," Gallo said.

Grassroots Lobbying

Through coordinated lobbying days in

Sacramento and the districts in April and

May, every state legislator was contacted by

constituents about the issue.

In addition, over 45,000 postcards urging |

the maintenance of Medi-Cal abortion

funding have been sent to the state

legislators.

Members of the coalition also met with

editorial boards of newspapers and televi-

sion stations throughout the state. Meetings

with the Los Angeles' Times,

Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee,

the Oakland Tribune, and the Los Angeles

Herald Examiner produced strong and-

substantive pro-choice editorials.

"The consequences of denying abortions

- to the poor will be far more damaging to our

society than any currently available alterna-

tive," the Tribune concludes.

The San Francisco Chronicle, addressing

the juxtaposition of the California Poll and

the Assembly's initial votes against funding,

wrote on May 5, "One wonders whether the

members of the Legislature in Sacra-

mento-a group surely sensitive to the

public will-will take this sounding of the

populace to heart. Or whether they will go

through the same old, mean-spirited annual

charade and block budget funds for

abortions for women on welfare.

"The people of California show a

reasonable, humane case of mind on this

issue. Perhaps the Legislature can be equal

to their example," the editorial stated.

The ACLU is calling on all members and

supporters to contact your legislators

protesting the passage of an unconstitu-

tional budget which would restrict funding

of Medi-Cal abortions. Address your letters

to the legislators at the State Capitol,

Sacramento, CA 95814.

the San

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6 june 1987

U.S. Supreme Court OK's Press Freedom Decision

hen the United States Supreme Court

on May 4 let stand the California

Supreme Court ruling that threw out a

multi-million dollar libel judgment against

two reporters and the San Francisco

Examiner, the final period was put on an

ll-year battle for press freedom.

The court's one sentence order did not

include any reason for the decision; only

Justice Byron White voted to review the

case.

By refusing to hear the case, the Supreme

Court upheld the California high court's -

1986 unanimous decision reversing a $1.6

libel judgment against reporters Raul

Ramirez and Lowell Bergman and a $3

million judgment against the Examiner and

the Hearst Corporation.

~The California court ruled that a series

of articles written by Ramirez, then a staff

writer at the Examiner and Bergman, a

freelance reporter, published in 1976 about

the way police inspectors Edward Erdelatz.

and Frank McCoy and former Assistant

District Attorney Pierre Merle had inves-

tigated and prosecuted a Chinatown murder

case were not written with "actual malice."

The three law enforcement officials filed

a libel suit against the reporters and the

newspaper for accusing them of misconduct

in the trial of 19-year-old Richard Lee who

was convicted of killing ok Leong in

1972.

The seven-figure libel judgment was

awarded by a jury in 1979 and upheld by

the state Court of Appeal in 1985.

ACLU-NC cooperating attorney Arthur

Brunwasser and staff attorney. Margaret

Crosby represented the reporters on appeal.

Unanimous Opinion

The unaminous California Supreme

Court opinion, written by former Chief

Justice Rose Bird, was based on constitu-

tional decisions which give special free

speech protection under libel laws to press

reports about public officials.

Bergman, now a producer for CBS

television's "Sixty Minutes," was_ thrilled

with the decision. "It's been a. nightmare

for Il years, but I knew we were right,"

he said, "It was just a question of eventually

having the courts agree.

"Hopefully now, when law enforcement

authorities introduce a witness into court

and use his testimony to send someone to

prison for life and then we go to interview

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that witness, they can't then come back and

tell us we used an unreliable source."

Ramirez, now a city editor with the

Oakland Tribune, said, "The actions of both

Supreme Courts uphold the integrity of our

work. The courts have reiterated that

journalists must have and have strong legal

protection to scrutinize how public officials

use power."

Attorney Brunwasser, who argued the

case before the California Supreme Court,

said, "The U.S. Supreme Court's action

leaves a significant precedent for press

freedom because the California Supreme

Court decision, which is left standing,

establishes that appellate courts have a

responsibility to closely examine jury

verdicts in public official libel cases to assure

that they are not punishment for freedom

of unpopular speech."

Attorney Crosby praised the two jour-

nalists for enduring the long fight, adding,

"The high court's action vindicates two

dedicated investigative reporters. The jury

verdict had been an injustice to them."

The journalists, who with the newspaper

faced the biggest libel judgment in state

history, praised the work of the ACLU-NC

and Media Alliance, a Bay Area journalists

organization which helped publicize the case

and raise money for the defense.

Bilingual Ballot Probe _

Goes to U.S. Supreme Court |

Spanish and Chinese speaking voters became the target of the U.S. Attorney's probe.

he United States Supreme Court

announced in April that it would hear

arguments next term in an appeal by the

government of a lower court ruling that U.S.

Attorney Joseph Russoniello's investigation

of bilingual ballot seekers violated the voters'

constitutional rights.

The class action suit, Olagues v. Rus-

soniello, was filed in 1982 by the ACLU-NC,

MALDEF and California Rural Legal

Assistance on behalf of Jose Olagues, a

Concord voter who requested Spanish

voting materials, and several organizations

dedicated to assisting Chinese and Spanish

speaking voters to participate in the political

process.

Shortly after being apoointcd US.

Attorney by President Reagan and three

weeks before the voter registration deadline

for the 1982 California primary elections,

Russoniello initiated an investigation of

bilingual ballot seekers in nine northern

California counties.

Russoniello sought ne received ihe

cooperation of. the district attorneys to

forward randomly selected names of

bilingual ballot seekers so that he could

investigate their citizenship status.

ACLU-NC staff attorney Alan Schlosser

explained that the investigation was not only

in violation of the U.S. Constitution's

guarantees of equal protection and freedom

of association, but also of the Voting Rights

Act which mandates multilingual materials

for persons who desire language assistance

at the polls.

The voter registration groups also

documented that the unwarranted investi-

gation had a chilling effect on bilingual

ballot seekers and that its timing-three

weeks before registration deadline-adver-

sely affected the minority communities'

participation in the elections.

The August 1986 decision of the Ninth

Circuit Court of Appeals noted that the

investigation had frightened many new

citizens out of registering to vote.

Judge Harry Pregerson, writing for the

majority, said, "Voting is a fundamental

right. [The investigation] for all practical

purposes chose its targets based on race and

national origin.

"The courts have long recognied the |

history of discriminatory treatment inflicted

on Chinese and Hispanic people," Judge

Pregerson noted as the court ordered the

- case to trial.

Attorney Schlosser was disappointed that

the Supreme Court decided to hear the

government's appeal. "The U.S. Attorney's

investigation was outrageous," Schlosser

-said. "To focus on people for no other reason

than that they applied for bilingual ballots

_ has a very damaging effect on participation -

in the political process and on minority

rights in general."

"The Ninth Circuit's ruling not only

reaffirmed our contention that the inves-

tigation was insensitive to minorities, it also

affirmed that the probe imperiled funda-

mental constitutional rights.

"We hope that the Supreme Court will

reject the Solicitor General's argument that

federal courts have no power to restrain or

even review a racially discriminatory

investigation," Schlosser added.

aclu news

June 1987

ACLU-NC

Volunteers

Honored

ACLU-NC Complaint Desk veteran

Mollie Lieberman (seated), shown here

`receiving an ACLU-NC Board resolution

from Development Associate Sandy

Holmes, was one of more than 25 ACLU

volunteers who were honored at the annual

Volunteers Luncheon on May 28 at the

- ACLU office.

The luncheon was organized by

Volunteer Coordinator Jean Hom to thank

the volunteers for their "tireless efforts in

helping the ACLU-NC become a strong

and healthy organization.

"You are our special human. trea-

sures-and real livesavers," Hom said of

the volunteers who work on every aspect

of ACLU work from responding to

prisoners' letters to research.

The volunteers also received apprciuon from Board chair Nancy Pemberton

and heard updates on drug testing, police practices and the fight for Medi-Cal abortion

funding from staff members.

If you would like to come to next year's luncheon, why don't you volunteer

at the ACLU-NC. Call Jean Hom at 415-621-2493 to find out how you can become

an ACLU-NC Volunteer.

OCC Director

continued from p. 2

gated by the Police Commission and the

state Attorney General.

SFPD Custody of OCC Files Older than

_ One Year: A November 13, 1986 SFPD

memorandum indicating that the OCC

had agreed to hand over its case files

older than one year to the legal division

of the Police Department was discovered

in February 1987. The ACLU protested

that this action would compromise the

independence of the agency.

the missing cases, key evidence may be

lost. The disappearance of the files

remains a mystery. Schober did nct

answer several questions posed during

the issue on April 9, 1987.

Violation of Complainants' Rights: In

a story broadcast in April on KRON-

been turning over confidential complain-

S.F. Police Misconduct Files Lost: In.

the Police Commission's consideration of

TV, it was revealed that the OCC had (c)

ant statements and tapes to the District

Attorney and police legal division

without the knowledge or consent of the

complainants. This practice is in viola-;

tion of complainants' right against self-

incrimination and right to privacy and

inappropriately casts the OCC in the role

of surrogate investigator for law enforce-

ment entities.

Failure to Investigate Pattern of Bru-

tality Complaints: On April 16, 1987

KRON-TV also reported that a five- to

six-week police decoy operation in 1986

had netted 24 arrests and 13 OCC

complaints alleging unnecessary force by

the same two or three officers. KRON

reported that the OCC not only did not

sustain any of the allegations, they did

not even fully investigate them.

Shredding Materials to Protect Police

from Liability: In major newspaper and

television stories, it was reported that

Schober had adopted a policy requiring

that investigators' notes and draft reports

be destroyed to ensure that they would

not later be obtained in court by

complainants suing police officers.

Ken Reeves .

Visa Denial

continued from p. 3

hear about foreign affairs from people with

a perspective which clashes with the official

government position."

Similar ACLU visa denial cases on behalf

of Nicaraguan Minister of the Interior

Tomas Borge and two representatives of the

Cuban Women's Federation are currently

before the U.S. Supreme: Court. In 1986,

the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington,

D.C. reversed a trial court order upholding

the exclusions and the government appealed

to the U.S. Supreme Court.

ACLU-NC Executive Director Dorothy

Ehrlich noted, "Mrs. Allende's exclusion

from the United States was not an isolated

event. Rather the Reagan administration

was employing the visa power to shape and

limit political debate within the United

States.

"The purpose of this policy has been to

deny Americans the chance to hear and

meet with significant and respected critics

of U.S. policy and advocates of policies and.

social systems which differ from ours,"

Ehrlich said. She noted that the same law

had been used to deny visas to Nobel Prize

winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez,

nuclear disarmament advocate former

NATO General Nino Pasti, and Italian

playwright Dario Fo.

Almost: simultaneously with the sum-

mary judgment issued by Judge Caffrey, a

court in Chile issued a temporary order

allowing Mrs. Allende and other women

exiles to return to their homeland. Ironically,

prior to these court orders, the only

countries the respected Chilean human

rights leader was not allowed to enter was

the United States and her own.

" Brown

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Open House at the ACLU-NC

ACLU-NC's new Associate Director Martha Kegel (left, pictured with Executive

Director Dorothy Ehrlich) was welcomed by over 150 members and supporters at the

ACLU-NC Open House on May 21. Visitors were also treated to a tour of the newly

renovated offices of the affiliate.

New INS Law

continued from p. 1

and while this may reflect the civil rights

agenda of the Reagan administration, it does

not reflect the will of Congress, which

prohibited employment decisions that have

a discriminatory effect, whether the effect

is consciously intended or not."

Gallo noted that the ACLU has pledged

to "do all we can to insure that discrim-

ination arising from the implementation of

the Act be challenged."

Already Fired

Attorney Baiz said that her office had

already heard from numerous employees

who had been laid off or fired because of

the law-even before the law had been

implemented and the regulations finalized.

"The biggest problem is the ignorance of

employers because of lack of information -

from the INS," Baiz said.

"There is a great deal of anger in the

Latino community-we see this Act not as (c)

an immigration law but as an employment

discrimination law," Baiz said.

To qualify for legalization, undocumented

workers must prove that they have lived in

the country continuously since January 1,

1982, have no criminal record, and are

gainfully employed. In addition to produc-

ing massive documentation to prove this

_ residency, they must pay processing fees of

$185 per adult and $50 per child. The

legalization program ends in May 1988.

Gloria, a spokesperson for Salvadoran

refugees, said that the new law was going

to cause more suffering for Central Amer-

ican refugees, most of whom came to this

country after 1982. "We cannot return to

our countries," she said, "because of the

violence and repression that awaits us there."

On May 13 the U.S. General Accounting

Office testified that 56 Salvadorans who had

expressed fear of political repurcussions on -

being deported from the U.S. had disap-

peared upon return to El Salvador. The

ACLU Political Asylum Project has doc-

umented a similar number of disappearan-

ces of deported refugees. .

Many Central American refugees have

already fled to Mexico and Canada, fearing

the implementation of the Immigration Act

would lessen their ability to find work in

the U.S. and hasten their deportation.

"We will continue to fight for the

implementation of the Moakley-DeConcini -

bill," said Gloria, "which would give

Extended Voluntary Departure status to

Salvadorans." The national ACLU is a

prime mover behind. this bill, which -has

twice been rejected by Congress.

Even San Francisco INS chief legaliza-

tion officer Cecil Fullilove seemed to

recognize why undocumented workers were

fearful of coming into the INS office, where

only 8 applications were processed on the -

first day. "It's hard for them to understand -

that yesterday we were trying to deport

them, and now we are offering to legalize

them," the INS official said.

aclu news

8 june 1987.

San Jose State University

Saturday and Sunday, August 1 and 2 |

Unfulfilled Promises of the Constitution

O, let America be America again

The land that never has been yet

And yet must be

Langston Hughes

Saturday

Session I. Hopes Not Realized

Plenary: :

Historical Overview and

Current Struggles

Workshops:

Right of Privacy

Right to Know/Right to Dissent

Racial Injustice

Session II: All of Us or None

Plenary:

The Impact of

Immigration Laws on Civil

Liberties

Workshops:

Immigration and First Amendment Rights

Immigration and International

Human Rights

Immigration and Discrimination

Session III. Things the Founding

Fathers Never Thought Of...

Plenary:

Reproductive Technology:

Information Panel and

Surrogacy Debate

Sunday

Session IV. Civil Liberties at the

Crossroads: the Battles Ahead

Plenary:

The Courts and Civil

Liberties

Workshops:

Lesbian and Gay Rights

Death Penalty

Access to Services

Keynote Speakers:

AnnMari Buitrago

FOIA, Inc.

Wade Henderson

Associate Director, ACLU Washingto

Office

Donna Hitchens

john powell

National ACLU Legal Director

Dr. Melanie Tervalon

Ron Wakabayashi

Japanese-American Citizens League

Additional guest speakers to be

announced.

*Saturday Night Entertainment: `Barbara Dane and The Goodnews Bonanza Band

Co-sponsored by Mid-Peninsula Chapter, ACLU and Santa Clara Valley Chapter, ACLU

Chapter Calendar

Board Meetings

B.A.R.K. BOARD MEETING: (Usually.

fourth Thursday) Volunteers are needed to

staff hotline. Contact Florence Piliavin,

415-848-4752 or 415-848-5195.

EARL WARREN BOARD MEETING:

(Third Wednesday) June 17, 7:30 pm prompt,

Sumitomo Bank, 20th and Franklin Streets,

Oakland. Contact Rose Bonhag,

415-658-7977.

FRESNO BOARD MEETING: (Note

change: usually third Tuesday) Contact

Mindy Rose: 209-486-7735.

GAY RIGHTS BOARD MEETING: (Usu-

ally first Tuesday) June 2 and July 7, 7:00

pm, ACLU-NC, 1663 Mission Street, Suite

460, San Francisco. Contact Tom Reilly:

415-434-7337. Chapter will staff booth at

Lesbian Gay Freedom Day Parade and

Celebration, Sunday, June 28. Volunteers

contact Doug Warner: 415-621-3900.

MARIN COUNTY BOARD MEETING:

(Third Monday) June 15, 7:30 pm. Citicorp

Bank, 130 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill

Valley. Contact Jack Butler, 415-453-0972 or

June Festler, 415-479-7317. Potluck Brunch,

Dreyfus Award to be presented to Virginia

Franklyn. RSVP. For more information,

contact: June Shaffler, 415-479-7317.

MID-PENINSULA BOARD MEETING:

(Usually fourth Wednesday) June 24, All

Saints Episcopal Church, 555 Waverly, Room

15, Palo Alto. Contact Harry Anisgard,

415-856-9186.

MONTEREY BOARD MEETING: (Usu-

ally fourth Tuesday) June 23 and July 28,

8:00 pm. Open Forums: Update on the Death

Penalty: Amnesty International World Wide

Campaign Against the Death Penalty in the

U.S.; What's Happening in the Legislature

and the Courts. Both at Monterey Library,

Pacific and Jefferson Streets, Monterey.

Contact Richard Criley, 408-624-7562.

MT. DIABLO BOARD MEETING: (Usu-

ally third Wednesday) Schedule for 1987 is

June 17 at the home of Betsy Ehlers, July

15 at the home of Mildred Starkie, and

September 16 (location to be announced).

Annual Potluck Dinner: Sunday, August 23

at the home of Helen Grimstead, 5:00 pm.

Guest Speaker: 7:00-8:00 pm. Contact

Andrew Rudiak, 415-932-5580. Fundraiser:

Production of Agatha Christie's The Unex-

pected Guest, presented by the Dramateurs

of Lafayette. $14 ticket includes buffet supper.

Saturday, June 13, 1987. Moraga Road, 9

School Street, Lafayette. For more informa-

tion or tickets, contact: Guyla Ponomareff,

415-284-4300.

NORTH PENINSULA BOARD MEET-

ING: (Second Monday) Monday, June 8 and

July 13, September 14 at. 7:30 pm. (No

meeting in August.) Bank of America, 3rd

and El Camino, San Mateo. Contact Bob

Delzell, 415-343-7339.

SACRAMENTO VALLEY BOARD

MEETING: (Usually second Wednesday)

June 10, July 8, August 12 and September

9 at 7:30 pm. County Administration

Building, 7th and I Streets, Main Floor

Conference Room, Sacramento. Contact Joe'

Gunterman, 916-447-8053.

SAN FRANCISCO BOARD MEETING:

(Usually fourth Tuesday) 6:00 pm.

ACLU-NC, 1663 Mission Street, Suite 460,

San Francisco. Contact Marion Standish,

415-863-3520.

SANTA CLARA BOARD MEETING:

(Usually first Tuesday) Contact Walter

Krause, 408-258-7963.

SANTA CRUZ BOARD MEETING:

(Second Wednesday) Contact Bob Taren,

408-429-9880:

SONOMA BOARD MEETING: (Usually

third Thursday) The Roseland Law Center,

1611 Sebastopol Road, Santa Rosa. Contact

Colleen O'Neal, 707-575-1156. :

June 7, 1:00 pm. San Rafael. Benjamin / vee ee is

STOCKTON BOARD MEETING: (Third

Wednesday) Contact. Eric Ratner,

209-948-4040 (evenings).

YOLO COUNTY BOARD MEETING:

(Usually Third Wednesday) Contact Dan

Abramson, 916-446-770].

Field

Committee Meetings

PRO-CHOICE TASK FORCE: (first Wed-

nesday) June 3 and July 1, 6:00 pm. District

lobbying to maintain Medi-Cal funding for

abortion. ACLU-NC, 1663 Mission Street,

Suite 460, San Francisco. Contact Marcia

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RIGHT TO KNOW/RIGHT TO DIS-

SENT: (second Tuesday) June 9 and July 8,

7:00 pm. Organizing public education and

membership organizing on limits on infor-

mation/ activism. ACLU-NC, 1663 Mission

Street, Suite 460, San Francisco. Contact

Marcia Gallo, 415-621-2494.

IMMIGRATION WORKING GROUP:

(fourth Thursday) June 25 and July 23, 7:00

pm. ACLU-NC, 1663 Mission Street, Suite .

460, San Francisco. Contact Marcia Gallo,

415-621-2494.

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~ REGISTRATION FORM |

Advance Registration Deadline: July 24, 1987*

CONFERENCE COSTS:

1) Registration Fees (per person) Please check:

e Weekend

cent One Day (Saturday or Sunday)

e One Session

2) Housing/Meals Fees (per person)

three meals

cent One night lodging, double occupancy, dorm room (includes linen),

three meals

cent Three meals, no lodging

cent Individual meal(s):

Saturday or Sunday Brunch

Saturday Dinner

$25.00

$15.00

$10.00

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Please check:

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NAME

ADDRESS

N.B. There is no charge for children under 4; please bring cribs or sleeping bags with

you. Childcare is provided throughout the Conference except at mealtimes and

overnight.

/We enclose a total (1 and 2 above) of:

TELEPHONE: (DAY)

|/We would like to arrange childcare:

Number/ages of children

(EVE)

"Please reserve housing and order meals no later than July 24 so that we can better

_ estimate the need for dormitory rooms and food service. Late registration will be

available up to and during the Conference weekend.

Please return this form, with your payment, to:

Marcia Gallo, Annual Conference, ACLU-NC, 1663 Mission Street, #460, San Francisco,

CA 94103; 415-621-2493. You may also use your VISA or MasterCard: contact

`Constance Maxcy, 415-621-2493.