natasha is the death penalty policy director for the american civil liberties union of northern california. she previously worked as a deputy public defender in alameda county, and was a staff attorney with the california task force on criminal instructions. she is also working on the effort to abolish the death penalty in california and pursuing the goal of reforming capital sentencing procedure. before we start with the first question, we have a short video. i have been told that this is a video from the former warden of the mississippi prison. >> it is clear that the execution will take place and something happens. they may not come out and say that they did this, but they will tell the victim -- i am sorry. and then they say, i did this. and i leaned down to whisper in his ear, and i thought i could reach them because i wanted to make certain that he is at peace with themselves. i said it is not important for you to confess to this crime and is not important for anyone in this room. the only thing that is important is that you let your god know the truth. and he looked at me and he sai

after internships at the american civil liberties union and other civil rights organizations. supervisor elsbernd: you throw out the civil rights division in the department of justice. they're typically the entity that sometimes challenges district lines. did you have any exposure to work like that? >> this was specifically in the department of education. so we dealt more with issues involving k-12 and higher education. after coming to san francisco in 1999, i started working in a small civil rights firm in oakland, and that transferred to a seckel civil rights from the representing plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases, wages, and accommodation that is. a family of five for housing is not granted the housing, either because of the size of their family or because they are a person of color, same-sex couple, things along those lines, as an example. ultimately, i decided to leave the practice of law to go to sf state, because i recognize that yes or more of a consensus- builder and an advocate in that regard than i was comfortable in working in a very different perspectiv

the american civil liberties union is suing the state on behalf of a transgender woman. alaska's dmv had refused to list her gender as female unless she provided documented proof she'd undergone a sex change operation. the aclu contends such a requirement to disclose sensitive personal information is unconstitutional. >>> anti-violence group reports a spike in hate crimes against bay area gays. it reports violent acts targeting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people jumped 65% in 2010 from the previous year. the group community united against violence says the rise in hate crimes could be tied to the downturn in the u.s. economy. >> groups of people get together, they often can figure out who they want to scapegoat and who do we want to sort of target and that's the way groups sort of bond with each other. >> prosecutors in san francisco say the disturbing trend continued as recently as last month. there were four separate attacks leading up to san francisco's gay pride parade. >>> time 4:48. a sacramento bounty hunter who spent thousands of dollars looking for ca

the american civil liberties union is in a legal battle with the department of state over the release of classified documents on the u.s. war on terror the diplomatic cables expose a washington methods of abduction interrogation and detention of suspected terrorists well they c.l.u. demands that they're made a public for official investigation despite the fact the documents have already been published by the online whistleblower wiki leaks well the shut some light of this story we cross live over to the atlantic to sacramento where allison we're president of the council for the national interest joyce says now thank you very much for joining us first of all alison these cables are already available for the public around the world so why bother to declassify them. that's that's one of the main points of this lawsuit these are public cables they have now been published in the new york times in many newspapers across the united states as well as the rest of the world so it's absurd for the state department to keep them that's fine truthfully they should not have been classified in the fi

the american civil liberties union is in a legal battle with the department of state over the release of classified documents on the u.s. war on terror. well the diplomatic cables expose of washington's methods of abduction interrogation and detention of suspected terrorists well the a.c.l.u. demands their made public for an official probe despite the fact that the documents have already been published by the online whistleblower wiki leaks the president of the counsel for the national interest alice said aware says that washington wants to avoid an investigation at all costs these are public cables they have now been published in the new york times in many newspapers across the united states as well as the rest room so it's absurd for the state department to keep them that's truthfully they should not have been classified in the first things they have nothing to do with national security issues these are our embassy cables talking about the torture of people about the terror getting their sense nations by people abroad this is finally all hands supposedly this approach is to keep it

. >> the american civil liberties union isn't touching this case >>> this video from prince edward islandda, prince william is flying that helicopter, splashed it down in the lake, it's okay because he was meant to do it. his bride catherine watched from the shore. the royal couple is in canada all week. he's trained to do this, by the way. jacqui jeras from atlanta. >> minneapolis-st. paul a cluster of thunderstorms in that area right now. that could cause some delays. we think that everybody's going to stay under an hour of possible delays. atlanta. san francisco, low clouds and fog. some morning issues there and denver and omaha looking for some minor delays. due to afternoon thunderstorms. ali, i like the vest. >> it's a reverse strip tease. jacqui, good to see you. >>> today's word of the day milky brown. find out what it means right after this short break. of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of

. >> the american civil liberties union has been questioning it since inception because it sees throughwed a detailed image of the naked body to a security screener in another room. >> i think outrage was wide spread. you got that from across the political spectrum. >> now a software upgrade seeks to quiet concerns by letting a computer look at the naked imagine stead of a person. all security screener sees is a generic outline with yellow dots on it goitsing to show if there is an october that needs further investigation f there is nothing it will just show okay on the screen. software, theç naked picture will never be seen by a human and never stored. >> i think this willnb make you more comfortable? >> that sounds right. yeah. >> that would be better. a lot better. >> this takes a creep factor out of it? >> yes. yes. it does. >> it's a relief, but the acl su. concerned. >> this depends on the very kinds of thing that's computers are worst at doing, which isht processing and ambiguous data. so if there are false positives, it could well be that people are going to be unnecessarily su

because i spend a fair good of time talking about how if you move from groups like the american civil liberties union to the law school clinics and programs education areas, you find a lot of overlap, cooperation, highly qualified personnel, you find the publications and the round tables and so forth are the key academics as to what it's been taking this week and vice versa. we have tremendous cooperation. wouldn't we want that cooperation between the groups that are at the opposite number of the aclu or would that make the law school much polarized and ideological? i have my doubts they should jump headlong into a relationship with the conservative and libertarian think tanks or much less groups that have lobbying agendas which would be disastrous, and so the question is therefore, should we tell them stop dealing with the aclu four times a month and they've been around for a true for idf groups if you see what i mean. >> why don't you stand up here or stay here for the concluding question. since i didn't know why john who introduced me needed to mention my servers on the u.s. commission of civil ri

the new policy is part of a settlement with the american civil liberties union of northern california. the aclu sued the department three years ago accusing it of unlawful detentions and racial profiling. >>> bay area union leaders are calling for the federal government to stop business audits that check the immigration status of workers. labor leaders say between 100 and 200 people in berkeley are at risk of losing their jobs. this after immigrations and customs enforcement asked the plant for its employee payroll information in february. labor leaders employers safe for workers. >>> it's expected to be another whirlwind day of debt limit negotiations. ktvu's allison burns is live this morning in washington d.c. with the new concessions president obama seems to be offering to try to reach a deal. allison. >> reporter: president oment baa ma has vowed repeatly not to even consider a short-term deal to raise the nation's debt limit. but now the word from the white house is he might accept an extension of just a few days if it buys time to do something bigger. but enthusiasm on capitol

spend a fair bit of time in the book talking about how, if you move from groups like the american civil liberties union to law school clinics and programs in adjacent areas, you find a whole lot of overlap. you find cooperation. even sometimes our revolving door of highly qualified personnel. you find that the publications and the roundtables and so forth are constantly informing many of they were thinking this weekend vice versa. your tremendous cooperation. would we actually want that cooperation between groups that are the ideological opposite numbers of the aclu? or would that just make law schools get more polarized and yet more ideological? i have my doubt that they should jump headlong into equally cozy relationship with conservative or libertarian think tanks, or much less with groups that may have lobbying agenda is which would be disastrous. so the question is, therefore, should we tell them stop seeing the aclu, stop digging the aclu four times a month. and at least date around for effective groups. i don't want to feel marriage to any of them, see what i mean? just stick let me ask the conc

the american civil liberties union is suing the state on behalf of a transgender woman.laska's dmv had refused to lift her gender -- list her gender as refail -- female unless she provided documented proof that she had undergone a sex-change operation. the aclu says disclosing such constitution -- such information is unconstitutional. >>> a report of violent acts tarting gays jumped 26% in 2010 from the previous year. the group, community united against violence, says the rise in hate crimes could be tied to the downturn in the u.s. economy. >>> prosecutors in san francisco say the disturbing trend continued as recently as last month. they say there were four separate hate crime attacks in the days leading up to san francisco's gay pride parade. >>> 7:53. casey anthony's whereabouts remain a closely guarded seat c -- secret. but a plane that landed in san francisco is causing speculation. it is reported that she boarded a jet and stopped in prescott, arizona. the jet is owned by one of anthony's lawyers. >>> new accusations that prosecutors withheld key information in th

the american civil liberties union says it will drop a school fees lawsuit if a bill passes that would ban california schools from charging students certain fees. the bill has already cleared the state assembly and a senate subcommittee. the aclu sued the state saying charging students for textbooks and other items violated the constitutional guarantee of free and equal public education. >>> the san francisco school district is looking into a teacher housing plan for the mission district. school board members are talking about the use of a 3600 square foot lot at 1950 mission street. according to the chronicle one idea is to build a 100 unit complex with about 40 of them dedicated to teachers. the others would go to low income residents, district staffers are investigating a public and non-profit agency to search for money to build that building. >> it is 7:38. through midnight the chp will continue their maximum dui enforcement period. as of 6:00 yesterday 161 people in the bay area were arrested for driving under the influence. last year 128 arrests were made in the same period. the

gutierrez: yesterday, the american civil liberties union, the puerto rican liberties defense and the national institute for latino policy published this first page in "roll call," one of the key newspapers here on capitol hill. these civil rights and policy organizations have denounced the civil and hamm rights crisis in puerto rico. they bought a full-page ad to alert congress about the serious concerns about civil and human rights, about abuses against the citizens of puerto rico by their government, including the infringement of right of free speech, peaceful assembly, freedom from police violence and abuse, end quote. and they make an essential point. if these abuses were happening anywhere in the 50 states they would not be tolerated. these abuses would be the front page on every newspaper as they are in puerto rico. it's time for this congress to start paying attention. students and working people, journalists and environmentalists in puerto rico are paying attention because the freedoms we take for granted in america are being denied to them each day. i'd like today to remind