The ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit on behalf of local nonprofits. The lawsuit challenges San Jose police officers’ practice of searching for location information collected by automated license plate readers (ALPRs) without first getting a warrant.

Criminal penalties for filing false claims against police officers were enacted 30 years ago, but the state Supreme Court says the Los Angeles Police Department's warnings about this law could discourage complaints.

Acrylamide caused cancer in animals in studies where animals were exposed to acrylamide at very high doses. Dietary acrylamide forms from sugars and an amino acid that are naturally present in food and can form in some foods during high-temperature cooking processes, such as frying, roasting and baking, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Prosecutors said they were unable to gather enough evidence showing free lance filmmaker Jeremy Portje intended to injure a Sausalito officer in a Nov. 30 incident when police confiscated video equipment at a homeless encampment.

Within hours of the his faux flyer trending online, the university's Office of Community Standards dropped the complaint and lifted the hold on Nicholas Wallace's degree.

California is one of four states, including Oregon, Minnesota and Tennessee, along with Washington, D.C., that have proposed new laws.

The opinion expressed impatience with the federal appeals court in California for disregarding the Supreme Court’s instructions.

The congresswoman joined 22 of her colleagues in demanding answers about government surveillance of peaceful protesters.

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit over San Jose’s secret negotiations with Google are questioning the impartiality of a new judge assigned to the case.