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Peter Bibring

Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU/SC

Peter Bibring joined the ACLU of Southern California as a staff attorney in 2006 before becoming a senior staff attorney in 2011.

During his tenure at ACLU/SC he has successfully litigated cases including Fitzgerald v. City of Los Angeles where he challenged LAPD’s practice of searching and detaining people on Skid Row. It resulted in a settlement calling for revised training on search and seizure practices to be given to all LAPD officers assigned to skid row.

In Gordon v. City of Moreno Valley, Peter successfully litigated a case against the City because it racially-targeted, warrantless raids on barbershops owned and patronized by African Americans under the false pretext that the searches were solely part of a health and code inspection. It resulted in a settlement that created policies that limit the circumstances under which Board of Barbering & Cosmetology inspectors can conduct joint operations with local law enforcement, and providing that they should never inspect in places where there is suspicion of criminal activity.

Prior to joining the ACLU, Peter worked at Bahan and Associates, a Pasadena-based law firm specializing in civil rights cases and employment litigation on behalf of low wage workers.

Peter is a former law clerk for the Hon. Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and the Hon. Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court of Northern California.

Peter graduated with a B.A. in physics from Harvard University magna cum laude, and from New York University Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the NYU Review of Law and Social Change.

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