i want to recognize the hard work of the aclu in bringing issues to our attention. i want to say a few things to lay the context for why we are here, at least from the human rights commission. many of you who are here today were also present on september 23, 2010, when the human rights commission held a special hearing concerning the community. i believe that over 150 folks attended that hearing, many of whom spoke. what they said was heard. rolling from that hearing up through where we are today, a number of events have transpired, which i will identify in sequence. our commission convened unanimously and adopted a report of the hearing, and there were a number of recommendations in that report. what i will identify is number 12, which requested that the human rights commission, the board of supervisors, and the police commission ensure that all officers, including those deputized, follow and comply with local and state privacy laws, including the sfpd's general order, which provides guidelines for officers to ensure the protection of first amendment rights in their

the aclu waste nod time in attacking this new law. also attacked the governor on another initiative he signed in, a directive, that also requires many state employees to have to get random drug tests. the aclu has now filed suit in that case and expects to file suit as well on the law now that requires welfare recipients to be drug tested. joining me this morning, the executive director of the aclu of florida joining us, sir, thank you so much. i will just quickly ask you to react to what you heard from governor scott. >> well, our governor and we're only into five months of his term, you heard him say repeat the same things over and over again. we want to prevent the abuse of misuse of state funds, we don't want to subsidize drug addiction, we want to support personal responsibility. of course all of that is true. that we want to make sure that state moneys, welfare monies, go to the families and especially the children who are in need of that. but is there any evidence of abuse? what is the problem that this addresses? he said he did

attorney's office and there was some clarification of things that were said in the presentation by the aclu and the asian law caucus. we were told something differently. i do want to state for the record that the men and women of the f.b.i. and the men and women of the department of justice prosecute civil rights cases and i can say that being a former u.s. assistant attorney and what we saw today, i can't speak on behalf of those offices, but we saw people interested in the complapets we heard and that they -- complaint wes heard and they prosecute civil rights violations, they want the facts. we were also told today that there are no random assessments, there has to be a predicate of a criminal violation. they need to set the record straight that that's the business that the f.b.i. and the u.s. attorney's office is in and i refer back to what was quoted in an article about the f.b.i. director robert mull who are i worked for when there was a won flick in this issue and it was highlighted in "time" magazine issue where he asked that the attorney general not sign off on a particular warrant

we have had numerous meetings in collaboration with asian law caucus and the aclu on recommendations regarding civilian oversight of the law localjttf. the joint venture will combat possible acts of terrorism. it is memorialized in the memorandum of understanding between the parties. the issue of these joint terrorism task forces and their implication on civil-rights is a topic of discussion in many u.s. cities going on right now in portland and in oakland. you may have read the recent "chronicle "sports article -- " chronicle" article as well. a serious terrorism threat was uncovered after a city council resolution a few weeks ago. portland is the only incident of a local jurisdiction opting out of the jttf that we know of in the united states. issues we are facing now, as described in the recommendation, is not whether we should opt out, but whether we need -- what we can do to ensure that officers involved in activities have strong civilian oversight of their activities and report activities through the established civilian oversight mechanisms and procedures defined in 8.10. recen

transition to a resolution, but as long as that mou is there and the fbi is telling some of us, the aclu, i cannot speak for the human rights commission, but if they are telling us they will enforce it, and we don't have anything in writing, this is not -- i have a lot of respect for chief suhr. i don't think he can issue an order to the fbi and expect them to follow it. when i asked the question, is there any reason that san francisco cannot adopt a resolution, and she said san francisco is an independent city, certainly has the authority to set its own standards, as portland. we are operating under an mou that they can block. commissioner slaughter: i think we're all frustrated the fbi is not here to answer some of these questions. i think that would help us. with respect to representation'' you are making, i have heard of the representations about compliance with 8.10. i still don't see how this language in the order that says the lot -- officers must be in compliance come if they're not -- i will leave it that. i think the language here in this bureau order can be improved upon. i al

farout views of the aclu. on this question, mr. simon refuses to provide a clear answer. at his hearing he stated that -- quote -- "we do not necessarily agree with all of the positions taken by the american civil liberties union." end of quote whvment asked in follow-up question to describe the legal policy positions with which he disagrees, he argued that his advice to the aclu was confidential and subject to attorney-client privilege. in a second round of questions, committee members clarified they were not asking about advice to a client but policy positions with which he disagreed. this was met with -- quote -- "i'm not at liberty to describe the legal or policy positions advocated by the aclu with which i disagree." end of quote. the aclu does hold very liberal views, and mr. simon has been the voice for those views. for example, mr. simon wrote a letter to the courthouse in oregon expressing the aclu's concern with religious christmas signs and decorations. the letter encouraged the county to repeal its

. >> you are the policy director on the death penalty for the aclu in northern california. can you share with us how the efforts are happening in the united states and whether there is a healthy effort in the state of california? >> this is a great time to work on the issue of the death penalty. every day we get closer and closer to ending the death penalty in california and across the country and indeed, across the world. several states have into the death penalty in the last four years. most recently, the state of illinois into the death penalty in march of this year. [applause] we are now at the time when 16 states, puerto rico and the district of columbia do not have the death penalty. many more states are addressing this issue, connecticut and montana, colorado, kansas, these are all states that have had bills in their legislature to into the death penalty that have moved through least one house in some cases, both houses. connecticut passed a bill a couple of years ago to end the death penalty that was vetoed by the then republican governor who is no longer in office.

i would like to support the resolution put forth by the asian law caucus and aclu as a solution that is representing a sensible level of independence and collaboration between local law enforcement and federal law enforcement. thank you. >> good evening. my name is michael and i'm the president of the national lawyers guild in the san francisco bay area. we are a human rights legal organization made up of lawyers and other illegal workers with nearly 1000 members here in the bay and thousands of members across the country. our members know it is important to maintain constitutional protections in the bill of rights, the california right to privacy, and locally, the department general order 8.10. there's a reason we have these protections. there's a history of officers of using their powers. we need to maintain our protection to maintain liberties. we need effective civilian oversight of the police. i think that means that we need to adopt the portland resolution route of maintaining oversight. the national lawyers guild has its own history of being persecuted for constitutionally prot

a judge will decide whether to grant that injunction to planned parenthood and the co-plaintiff, the acluthey are saying it would block the law in indiana and block the access of low income women to essential medical services which exclude abortion because as you pointed out firm law requires that no federal dollars are used for abortion. the state says the planned parenthood gets the moneys and it pays for the infrastructure of the building which might also include abortion services. trace? >>trace: it is not just indiana, six other states have proposed legislation that would limit funding for planned parenthood? >>guest: no, this is a high stakes battle and a lot of states are payingancy to it because the possibility of defunding the medicaid program in the state of indiana has been tossed out and both sides in this court case this morning, the state of indiana and planned parenthood say $3.5 billion worth of medicaid funding could be pulled if the secretary's decision whether to allow funding to go forward if it is in violation of federal law. what the department of health and human se

. >> you are the policy director on the death penalty for the aclu in northern california. can you share with us how the efforts are happening in the united states and whether there is a healthy effort in the state of california? >> this is a great time to work on the issue of the death penalty. every day we get closer and closer to ending the death penalty in california and across the country and indeed, across the world. several states have into the death penalty in the last four years. most recently, the state of illinois into the death penalty in march of this year. [applause] we are now at the time when 16 states, puerto rico and the district of columbia do not have the death penalty.

the aclu opposes the sexting ban. >>> new study finds 1 million teens enrolled in public schools in california are not participating in physical education classes. the ucla study might shed light on childhood obesity problems in the country. california requires middle and high school students to get 400 minutes of p.e. every ten days. but nearly 40% of them do not get that. high school students can except out of p.e. for certain reasons but they largely blame the budget cut for lack of school-based programs. >> we don't have p.e. at our school. it's ridiculous. kids need physical education or they'll get fat. >> with the obesity epidemic happening we need to be sure that the kids have good health habits. part of that is physical activity. >> if the state expiring tax hikes are not extended, schools could see billions more dollars in cuts. >>> 4:57. change in policy for emergency responders in alameda. next at abc7 news at 5:00 -- what the island city will do now to make sure no one drowns again while police and firefighters just stand by and watch. >> if you're about to drive northbound 880, w

. >> reporter: so he joined veterans and the aclu in a lawsuit to force the va to rehab this facilityuse 200 to 300 vets with ptsd. the department of veterans affairs declined to talk to us. but insists it has gotten thousands of homeless veterans off the streets and into community centers. last week, the va announced a master plan to rehab buildings here for veterans suffering ptsd. but the plan has no timetable, and no budget. while the courts decide the best use of this property, freddy cordova will do the best he can helping one vet at a time. bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >>> coming up a little bit later on "the early show," republican presidential candidate michele bachmann on how sarah palin could affect her run for the white house. >>> plus the latest on mob boss whitey bulger's bizarre life on the lam. >>> and the bird men who jumped to fame after being profiled by "60 minutes" talk about their incredible death-defying stunts. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching, everybody. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. everybody. i'm betty ng

>> well, the plan the parenthood organization and aclu specifically think -- they are back again sayingt specifically going to fund abortion services. >> >> bill: legislature of indiana didn't have the right to do this. >> judge right now has denied the restraining order. the injunction that has been requested by the aclu. >> bill: illegal to give any money to planned parenthood in indiana. you concur. >> it's not illegal. but the indiana law, i do believe is illegal. it's unconstitutional violation of the federal constitution which says. >> bill: the judge as guilfoyle just pointed out wouldn't stay the law. >> has denied it and is going to hear additional evidence. >> it's not over yet. >> bill: you are saying that the legislature is going to be overturned? >> yeah. >> texas well. this is a rights issue. states rights. kind of like the npr funding. >> bill: we have two topics. that means we have to get to. jennifer lopez wants to block a video that was taken by her first husband or second husband. >> first husband. noah. >> the video is about what? >> it's about we don't know because

the scopes case was kind of a put up job and it was brought together by city boosters and by the aclu to make a stand in tennessee. but before that darrow have been writing and thinking about the ways in which certain forces in society were attacking free scientific inquiry. and in addition to the attacks on evolution and the scientific and supple. darrow have been looking for a way to argue that in court and he had been arguing it in print but now he had an opportunity to make a stand and the goal for the scopes case was actually to lose and dayton tennessee and take an appeal all the way to the supreme court to talk about the right of teachers and students to learn in an environment without the influence of outside political forces. >> the case actually became moot and it was never argue before the supreme court. but, if you have seen the film inherit the wind, it is based on that trial and in it, darrow faced off against williams jennings brian, another attorney who was famous in his time, the same as darrow was actually and that is one of the classic set pieces and american legal

they hired margerie pitts-haines who was a lawyer associated with the aclu to back them up in court. challenging the settlement. matthews confronted and other women confronted powerful lawyers in the courtroom and again, i want to share matthews' voice with you because i think it's quite powerful. she said in the courtroom, i represent poor people. and i think their children need equal education as well as the rich person's children. she continued, so i would ask the court to let us poor people be in on the decision as black and poor people. because we are the ones that live it. we are the ones that our children go to the ghetto schools. and she also said you don't know how it makes a mother feel when her children go all the way through 12 grades and come out who can't even spell her name. now, margerie haines didn't win her case, but even as i say that, i'll emphasize that "courage to dissent" isn't just winners' history. in fact, i think it's important to write the history of society's losers. the voice of ethel may matthews and her neighbors it seems to me is critically important t

the aclu agrees. >> he said, yeah, i was thinking about going after them until i saw you flip them off. so it's like, well, let's see. the person that breaks the two laws walks. and the person who kind of doing the first amendment free speech rights thing gets the ticket. >> got a point there. there is an ordinance on the books that governs body language behind the wheel. but officers say they rarely use it. now, the man plans to represent himself during his next court appearance. that will probably get a little attention. >> body language behind the wheel? >> sometimes it just happens. you get upset especially on the east coast. i mean, that's just pretty much standard driving procedure. hey! i don't know. >> california, too. >> we all get a little frustrated behind the wheel but i think he may have a point. >>> 6:21. will sarah palin run for president? the two people who not answer to that question coming up. -- who know the answer to that question, coming up. >>> later something we all look forward to, how receiving a paycheck or tax refund could be hazardous to your health. ,,,, ♪

the aclu says it will sign a bill to block it.n congresswoman michelle le block and will run for president, she says she will. now, trade say that she will make that official on monday. she is planning to do that in waterloo, iowa, the town she was born. this is a doctrine in the debate where she announced that she filed paperwork test run for >> it is still pretty warm. hot urns here are your current temperatures. you can see the fall pushing its way and from the coast and going into the east bay, the livermore valley by midnight. by the morning commute we will have mostly clear conditions and by noon a lot of sunshine. how the wind gusts will get up to about 24 mi. per hour. we will see a lot of sunshine in cooler conditions. no more 90s, '60s, '70s and '80s. here are your projected highs for tomorrow. >> take a look at your 7 day around the bay as we head into saturday. a cooling trend headed our way for next work week, temperatures getting into the low 80s. 70's for the day and made 60's for the coast. we will be right back af

. >> we also read that the aclu today coming out pretty strongly against this law saying "the bill invitesle in alabama." they plan to challenge t how confident are you that this law will remain upheld? >> well, mickey hammond who is the majority leader in the house of representatives and senator scott beson, the chairman of the rules committee have worked very tirelessly and diligently on this legislation to make sure that it was prepared in such a way that it would accommodate all the needs of all the people we are trying to reach, not a discriminatory fashion that is not the intent of the legislation. the intent of the legislation to provide equal opportunity for all people who want to come to alabama legally and meet the needs that each and every one of those individuals have and that's not asking too much. >> representative john merrill, i appreciate it. i'm going to take some of your points i and point them now to mary bow earthquake the director of the immigrant justice department with the southern poverty law center. mary, let's just begin with something representative merrill said

the aclu of florida filed a federal suit seeking to block the order, arguing that at least part of thehe case is pending, governor scott has directed his staff to suspend imp lemation, allowing testing to move ahead only in the department of corrections. now testing federal employees is not a new issue. it started under president reagan, actually, whose executive order required that federal employees be drug free whether or not they're on the job. in 1988 congress passed the drug free workplace act. and since then, states have increasingly been adopting similar requirements for employee drug testing. scott said he plans to move forward with implementing the order once the lawsuit has been resolved. our question today for the stream team is this. should state workers be drug tested? lisa blum is with us today with attorney and author of "think: straight talk for women to stay smart in a dumbed down world." mark di bernardo and will cain. mark, i'd like to start with you. if you were advising the state of florida, would you recommend that they try to randomly test employees? >> no. i thi

. >> the aclu and southern poverty law center say the law's unconstitutional and plan to file a lawsuitakes effect, which is supposed to happen september 1st. >>> u.s. military personnel traveling on orders will be able to check more bags for free on delta flights. the policy change takes place immediately. it follows the outrage stirred up by two u.s. soldiers returning from afghanistan who vented that delta charged them hundreds of dollars in bag fees and posted it on youtube. >> we had actually ended up paying out of pocket, our own money to allow the fourth bag to be taken. >> how much did you pay? >> 200 per bag. >> all that added up to nearly $3,000. mill ter personnel will be able to carry four bags in coach, five bags in first and business class for free. united continental made similar changes. american airlines announced today it will allow five free checked in bags for the military. >>> powerful moments in florida. photographs of anthony's murdered 2-year-old daughter were shown in court. [ female announcer ] only yoplait original has twice the calcium of the leading yogurt.

the aclu has vowed they will fight the law, and the u.s.reme court upheld last week arizona's law that goes after employers who hire illegals. the other part, the controversial part that police can check immigration status, that clearly is about to go before the supreme court. it's unclear right now how the obama administration plans to approach this alabama law if governor signs it, martha, which we expect him to do. martha: trace, thank you very much. so just to put this issue in context for you, according to the national conference of state legislatures, in the first quarter of this year alone state lawmakers in 41 states have brought forward 260 law enforcement-related immigration bills. that is a lot of legislation out there that is seeking to address this issue at the state level. so many of those bills address the determination of lawful status during a traffic stop or arrest. they give federal responsibilities to state and local law enforcement agencies on that. very interesting. it's cooking, really, all across the country on that

the aclu on behalf of hispanic groups won in federal court, they won again in the third district courtpeals. it went to the supreme court and the supreme court has now kicked it back to the third district saying hey, there's now precedent from the ruling from arizona. this is very important, because for contest, we focus so much on arizona over the past year, but look at the numbers here. over the past 15 months, in this country, there have been 2958 bills and resolutions introduced, 486 of those bills and resolutions have been enacted in just a 15 minute period of time, and the supreme court ruling, as it pertains to arizona, could open the flood gate to a lot more of these types of laws. and ordinances. martha: very interesting. a town taking on the issue on their own and getting backed up for it. trace, thank you very much. >> yeah, okay. martha: here's sort of a big question we've been thinking about. can america recover if we were to be in another depression? the troubling data that shows that it may be harder to recover a second time around. we're going to talk about that. radio

a situation where civilian women would have to be subject to registration for the draft because the aclumen and say, well, look, let's make it equal, let's force women into the military, into combat in time of war, registration for it, selective service. there are a lot more factors here than meet the eye superficially. and by the way, i do have to add this -- we're all proud of our women who serve. none of this is their fault. but the policymakers have to keep their priorities straight. then we can use women to the best capability that they have, and that would be best for everyone. >> elaine donnelly, general russel honore, thank you both for weighing in on this hot topic. >>> and it is time now for a cnn political update. senior white house correspondent ed henry joins me now from the white house. ed, big golf match scheduled for tomorrow for the president and john boehner. >> reporter: that's right, randi. it'd be interesting. vice president biden will be joining these two leaders, along with john kashich. he'll be playing on the republican side with john boehner. obviously, ohio gov

the aclu is worried about it and already promising to file a lawsuit to block this bill from becomingre would allow south carolina officials the right to revoke the business license of any employer who knowingly hires unauthorized immigrants. the bill also requires police to check the immigration status of any individual they suspect is in the country illegally. some this morning are calling that legalized profiling. governor nikki haley has confirmed she'll sign the bill into law. she's been critical of federal officials accusing them of preventing south carolina from enforcing its current anti-illegal immigration laws by denying the state access to electronic records used to verify a person's citizenship. if the bill becomes law, anyone stopped by police even, for example, for a minor traffic violation, would be subjected to an immigration check if the officer suspects they may be in the country illegally. arizona, utah, indiana, georgia, north carolina with a milder law, being targeted now by civil rights groups because of similar anti-immigration laws. >> i was going to say, when