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8 Apr 2008, 6:46 pm
``A better strategy for public safety would involve . . . tailoring restrictions to be pertinent to offense patterns.''The Florida Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has taken an interest in the case of the men under the bridge.''They need to be in a safe, sane environment where they're at the lowest risk of having additional problems and re-offending in the future,'' said Jeanne Baker, president of the… [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 1:52 pm
``A better strategy for public safety would involve . . . tailoring restrictions to be pertinent to offense patterns.''The Florida Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has taken an interest in the case of the men under the bridge.''They need to be in a safe, sane environment where they're at the lowest risk of having additional problems and re-offending in the future,'' said Jeanne Baker, president of the… [read post]
5 Apr 2008, 5:27 am
ACLU sues on behalf of Canadian on death row Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service [www.canada.com] Published: Thursday, April 03, 2008 Condemning lethal injection procedures in Montana as "state sanctioned homicide" performed by "untrained individuals," the American Civil Liberties Union has launched a lawsuit in the name of Canadian death-row prisoner Ronald Smith, aiming to halt all executions in the state. [read post]
4 Apr 2008, 9:35 pm
» More Photos Document | ACLU organizes military commission defense teams The American Civil Liberties Union, which for years has scorned the Pentagon's military commissions as ''kangaroo courts,'' announced Friday that it will mount an effort to provide top civilian defense attorneys for alleged terrorists facing trial at Guantánamo, notably the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001,… [read post]
30 Mar 2008, 12:40 pm
In a 1990 case, American Civil Liberties Union v. the Florida Bar, a federal district court threw out provisions of Florida's Code of Judicial Conduct that barred judicial candidates from announcing their views of disputed legal or political issues.Yet this state's Bar and its disciplinary council continue to chill the environment. [read post]
23 Mar 2008, 4:17 am
(linked version)*(by the Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic)Brief for The Fordham University School of Law, Lewis Stein Center for Law and Ethics Brief of The American Civil Liberties Union and the Rutherford Institute Brief of Critical Care Providers and Clinical Ethicists Brief of Drs. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 12:51 pm
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have asked Gov. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 9:18 pm
"We're trying to be proactive, give the offenders time to find a place," she said.Three of those evicted from beneath the Oakland Park bridge are now camping out in the Everglades, Plessinger said.Carlene Sawyer, president of the Greater Miami chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, called the under-bridge housing "cruel and unusual punishment" that gives the community a "false sense of security. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 6:03 pm
He readily admits his guilt today, saying, ``I touched the girl.''The crackdown on convicted sex offenders' unusual living arrangement began last month in Broward County; a small group of offenders on probation who were camping under the Oakland Park Bridge were given eviction notices by the Department of Transportation, which owns the bridge.''We anticipated something like this could happen with the men under the Julia Tuttle and we're trying to be… [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 5:44 pm
In contrast to the county, the state requires only that sex offenders live at least 1,000 feet from a school. ''We know there are few places left in Miami-Dade,'' Plessinger said.In Florida, fewer than 50 convicted sex offenders on probation are listed as homeless, she said.The American Civil Liberties Union issued a statement Monday afternoon saying it is sending a letter to Gov. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 11:30 am
Plessinger noted, however, that the causeway residents may stay if the bridge owner agrees.The land under the Julia Tuttle Causeway belongs to the Florida Department of Transportation.The eviction will "ultimately boomerang on the city" and cause offenders to go underground, said Ray Taseff of the American Civil Liberties Union in Miami. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 1:24 pm
Those convicted include: ...the former head of the Virginia American Civil Liberties Union, an Ivy League professor, a sheriff's deputy, a Transportation Security Administration employee, an Army sergeant, a former Navy cryptologist, a contractor working at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a National Institutes of Health researcher and a U.S. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 9:00 pm
Al-Arian, whose sponsors include two organizations to which I belong: the local American Civil Liberties Union and the local National Lawyers Guild. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 11:06 pm
"Elizabeth Alexander, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project, has qualms about whether the faith-based programs are fair to non-Christian inmates but hesitates to criticize them because they fill a void.However, the InnerChange program in Iowa was ordered closed by a federal judge, ruling in a lawsuit filed by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which contends that state funds were used for… [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 2:07 am
There are currently about 3,350 inmates awaiting execution across the United States, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 7:35 pm
10-18-2007 Ohio:Two sex offenders are challenging the constitutionality of a new state law that changes the classification, registration and notification requirements imposed on sex offenders, arguing that the changes cannot apply retroactively.Lawyers with the Cincinnati-based Ohio Justice and Policy Center filed suit Monday in the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of the sex offenders, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, the Ohio Public Defender and… [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 7:37 pm
Every state has laws against child abuse, and many specifically outlaw teachers taking sexual liberties with students. [read post]
21 Oct 2007, 1:28 am
View the article here10/18/2007Two sex offenders are challenging the constitutionality of a new state law that changes the classification, registration and notification requirements imposed on sex offenders, arguing that the changes cannot apply retroactively.Lawyers with the Cincinnati-based Ohio Justice and Policy Center filed suit Monday in the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of the sex offenders, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, the Ohio… [read post]
20 Oct 2007, 7:05 pm
In Florida in December, Angel Nieves Diaz grimaced and shook for more than 30 minutes before finally suffering convulsions and dying.Authorities later found that the needles were inserted too far and the lethal cocktail had been injected outside his veins.In 2006, there were 53 executions in the United States, all but one through lethal injection.Now though, executions appear to have been put on hold almost by default, apart from the controversial execution of Michael Richard in Texas, just… [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 7:59 pm
"Elizabeth Alexander, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project, has qualms about whether the faith-based programs are fair to non-Christian inmates but hesitates to criticize them because they fill a void. [read post]
