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The Berkeley Patriot filed a civil rights complaint Tuesday against the UC Berkeley administration for allegedly “systematically and intentionally violating” its members’ civil liberties by suppressing their First Amendment rights.

Abigail Fisher claimed she was discriminated against for being white, challenging the affirmative action policies of the University of Texas at Austin.

Sarah Funes and Lisa Albertson, co-chairs of activist group Berkeley Disabled Students, alleged that the campus has been counting students who never applied as participants in the TRiO at Disabled Students' Program, or TRiO, to meet federal guidelines, misreporting the number of students being serviced. Albertson alleged she was involuntarily a part of the program from 2009-14.

LBRY, a content sharing and publishing platform, copied 20,000 lectures from UC Berkeley’s YouTube channel before they were deleted and will make them publicly available beginning in April.

On Wednesday, UC Berkeley announced that it would restrict public access to existing educational content, after a Department of Justice investigation concluded that many of the video captions did not meet standards in the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Just months after California legalized the recreational use of marijuana, the Trump administration announced that it may be more strictly enforcing federal laws against recreational drug use.

The campus responded last week to the U.S. Department of Justice's allegations that UC Berkeley violates Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act because of the inaccessibility of some of campus's public online educational content.

While the U.S. Department of Justice has announced it will begin phasing out its contracts with private prisons, California will continue contracting private prisons to house state-level inmates.

A former UC Berkeley employee pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling about $390,000 in federal funds from the Lawrence Hall of Science.

A member of the city’s Medical Cannabis Commission was arraigned in federal court Wednesday for allegedly taking bribes, laundering money and attempting extortion.