I read about a situation involving a German tourist and a privately-held ICE facility, where she's being held indefinitely.  I wanted to contact the ACLU and make sure they had this on their radar and were doing something about it; I've been donating to them monthly since the Patriot Act was introduced with Bush Junior, and I want to know that they're listening.

Their website is atrocious.  Lots of opportunities to buy things, including swag (!) with their logo on it, up my donation (popups galore), propagandistic images of patriotic looking young people with flags and banners.  But no email address.

A link to subsidiaries by state, so I found the one for SoCal.  Attempting to email them through the address info@aclusocal.org results in an "undeliverable" returned message in my own Inbox.  I finally found a usable (I think) address for the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, and sent my message.

I hope this incompetence isn't representative of their actual function.  If I ever need them, I'm going to want more than photos, slogans, swag and opportunities to donate even more money.