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Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for California.
1,527Documented
39In custody
899Released
17Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in California
Where California’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 354
1970s 205
1960s 199
1910s 174
2020s 131
1980s 90
Recent dashboard entries from California
The newest published events and reporting located in California, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
Whistleblower alleges FBI targeted Los Angeles anti-ICE protesters
Prosecution
Charges dropped against five Stanford students over pro-Palestine protest
Prosecution
Judge dismisses all charges against the Stud Alley 18 arrested during San Francisco Pride weekend
Protest
Two injured at Teamsters protest outside Amazon warehouse; sheriff says motorcyclist intentionally struck crowd
Other
Five invited reporters held at gunpoint by Vandenberg Space Force Base security
Other
Photojournalist Steven Berumen shoved by federal officers while covering an LA immigration protest
Prosecution
Anti-ICE protester accused of pouring lighter fluid on CHP car is sentenced to prison
Prosecution
Westlake man sentenced for anti-ICE protest actions
Documented cases
1,527 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Manuel Fernandez Rodriguez
Released
Manuel Fernandez Rodriguez was one of five Spanish sailors who deserted Franco's navy and sought asylum in the...
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Sarah Ferrell
Sarah Ferrell protested U.S. support for Israel by blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in April 2024. A jury convi...
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Renaye Fewless
Released
Renaye Fewless was a Los Angeles Catholic Worker intern who participated in a Rampart Police Station protest d...
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Fred Firestone
Released
Fred Firestone was a Los Angeles labor organizer and secretary of the city's International Labor Defense branc...
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Fisher (Los Angeles milk-strike picket, 1934)
Fisher was identified by surname only among twenty-two people arrested for picketing the Adohr Dairy during th...
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John Fisher
Released
John Fisher was a Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union organizer arrested in the Sacramento crim...
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Maurice Fishman
Maurice Fishman was one of the named defendants arrested in the September14, 1931 San Francisco City Hall unem...
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Alexandria Ty Fite
Released
Alexandria Ty Fite, 32, Riverside Historic Courthouse green-handprint defendant, July 30 2022.
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Christopher Flores
Christopher Flores was a California prisoner represented in the March 20, 2012 public petition to the United N...
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Luis Yboy Flores
Luis Yboy Flores was detained at Mesa Verde Detention Facility in California and participated in a hunger stri...
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Manuel Flores (San Pedro maritime strike, 1934)
The San Pedro dispatch dated July 5, 1934 identifies Manuel Flores as a picket jailed on an accusation of assa...
A
A. G. Ford
Released
A. G. Ford was one of the Sacramento defendants prosecuted for criminal syndicalism in 1934-1935 during the ca...
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Diane Ford
Diane Ford was a California antiwar activist associated with Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In her first-pe...
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Phil Fortman
Phil Fortman was a California prisoner represented in the March 20, 2012 public petition to the United Nations...
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D. Fradkin
Released
D. Fradkin was one of the workers arrested at the Los Angeles May Day demonstration of 1 May 1930 — on charges...
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Minnie Fradkin
Page 3's November 11 Los Angeles report individually names Minnie Fradkin among those arrested in the precedin...
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F. Franklin
Released
F. Franklin was an IWW member. F. Franklin received a five-year sentence, which he served in San Quentin from...
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Greg Franklin
Released
Greg Franklin was identified by The Black Panther as a Black Panther Party member whom Los Angeles police beat...
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Harold Freeman
Harold Freeman was individually named among San Diego Black Panthers arrested on July 16, 1969 while going to...
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L. V. French
Released
L. V. French was from Eureka. L. V. French received a three-year prison sentence for having an IWW membership...
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Todd Friend III
Released
Todd Friend III was a member of Orange Grove Friends Meeting and one of the Pasadena Three, residents of a Qua...
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Alfred Fugelvic
Released
Alfred Fugelvic was listed on the Labor Defender's class-war prisoner honor roll as serving 6 months in the Lo...
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Y. Fukunaga
Released
Y. Fukunaga was named among the political prisoners jailed in Los Angeles in 1932 who sent revolutionary greet...
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John Funkner
The July 9 Western Worker prints a June 22 Brentwood dispatch naming John Funkner among eight apricot strikers...
Institutions in California
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in California that appear in the census’s case files.
San Quentin State PrisonSan Quentin, California
171 cases
Federal Bureau of Prisons
60 cases
Sharp Park Detention CampSharp Park, California
33 cases
Presidio StockadeSan Francisco, California
27 cases
Los Angeles County JailLos Angeles, California
26 cases
Folsom State PrisonFolsom, California
22 cases
San Quentin Rehabilitation CenterSan Quentin, California
16 cases
Metropolitan Detention Center, Los AngelesLos Angeles, California
14 cases