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The Sonoma County ACLU has been working since the 1950's to protect and promote civil liberties in our communities, in our state and in our country. We are a volunteer organization with over 1,500 households as members throughout all parts of Sonoma County. We have a Board of Directors which meets monthly at the Peace and Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Avenue in Santa Rosa (off Santa Rosa Avenue near Julliard Park). Meetings are open to all, and are held on the third Tuesday of each month at 7 PM. We advocate for civil liberties in city councils, boards of education, and other public forums. Our newsletter is published three or four times per year. We do not have attorneys who can represent you, but we would like to hear about your civil liberties concerns. You can reach us by calling our message telephone (707) 765-5005, by writing to us at P.O. Box 14181, Santa Rosa, CA 95402 or by sending us an e-mail.

Our areas of special concern include:

• Equal Educational Opportunity and Students' Rights
• The Criminal Justice System: Jail Conditions, Citizens' Review Boards
• Driving While Black/Brown 1st Amendment: Privacy, Free Speech, Political Process
• Gay/Lesbian: Youth Rights, Discrimination, Hate Crimes, Alternative Families
• Economic Justice: Criminalization of Poverty, Discrimination, Housing and Homelessness

For further details or to participate in the work of a committee, call the Chapter at (707) 765-5005 or send us an e-mail.

To contact Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, Congressman Mike Thompson, Senator Barbara Boxer and/or Senator. Diane Feinstein by fax or e-mail, go to Civil Liberties in Congress.

If you're already a member of the Sonoma County ACLU, send us an e-mail and tell us what you'd like to do to help protect and expand our civil liberties in Sonoma County. Of course, you are invited to our monthly Board meetings and tell us in person. We meet on the third Tuesday of each month at 7 PM at the Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Avenue in Santa Rosa (off Santa Rosa Avenue near Julliard Park).

If you're not already a member, please consider joining the 1,500 households in Sonoma County who are members of the ACLU. Joining is easy. You can join by printing and completing a printable registration form and mail it to us. It's that simple.

The Sonoma County ACLU Board is in the process of setting up a "listserv" for ACLU members who would like to be kept informed about activities of the chapter, and who would like to participate in ongoing civil liberties discussions online. If you would like to participate in the Sonoma ACLU listserv, and you are a chapter member please send us an email and request to be added.

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