A UCLA voting rights research center sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block it from using federal databases to allegedly target naturalized citizens who are registered to vote in California.


Sources: UCPD. Graphic reporting by Julian Duaybis, Metro editor. Interactive by Bianca Peralta, Data editor.
UCPD recorded 514 unique entries in its Aug. 1-31 daily crime log.

UCLA will convert a newly acquired Sawtelle multifamily complex into graduate student housing over the next few months.
UCLA purchased the building at 1775 Beloit Ave.

This post was updated Sept. 6 at 9:14 p.m.
UCLA will launch a new digital humanities major this fall, integrating the study of society with technology.

This post was updated Sept. 3 at 8:08 p.m.
The Daily Bruin joined 39 college newspapers on an amicus brief filed Wednesday calling on an appeals court to defend student press freedom. 
The brief – filed by the Student Press Law Center, a legal advocacy nonprofit – urges the United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a district court’s ruling that argues a university’s decision to operate student publications is government speech and therefore not subject to the First Amendment.

This post was updated Sept. 6 at 9:22 p.m.
Sarah Leonard Fine Jewelers, one of the oldest family-owned businesses in Westwood, closed Saturday.
Sarah “Sunny” Friedman and Leonard “Lenny” Friedman opened the store, located at 1055 Westwood Blvd., in 1946 under the name Crescent Jewelers.

Billy Gene Mills, the first Black graduate of the UCLA School of Law, died June 27. He was 96.
Mills earned his undergraduate degree from UCLA in 1951 and graduated from the School of Law in 1954.