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12 Jul 2012, 9:44 am
Last month the ACLU released a joint report with Yale Law School, Victims of Complacency, that documents the ongoing trafficking, forced labor and abuse of foreign workers hired through U.S. government contracts to work in support of U.S. military and diplomatic missions abroad. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 1:53 pm
The FBI's misuse of a key Patriot Act power was both intentioinal and criminal, and is symptomatic of the department's over-reliance on ineffective data-mining methods, according to Mike German, a former FBI special agent who now works as the ACLU's National Security Policy Counsel. [read post]
26 Jun 2007, 6:00 am
The ACLU has more on the bill, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility Closure Act - S. 1469. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 8:30 am
Today, the ACLU and North Carolina Justice Center filed a lawsuit against Captain Charlie's Seafood, Inc., for unlawfully discriminating against female employees by restricting them to certain work solely because they're women. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 12:54 pm
Today the ACLU filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to force the government to disclose information about the circumstances in which it accesses the contents of Americans’ private electronic communications without obtaining a warrant based upon probable cause. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 10:51 am
ACLU Wins FOIA Appeal on Prosecutors’ Use of Cell Phone Location Data The Justice Department must turn over the names and docket numbers of numerous cases in which the government accessed cell phone location data without probable cause or a warrant. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 12:17 pm
Today the ACLU filed its appeal brief in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records about the CIA's use of drones to carry out targeted killings around the world. [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 6:23 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reports that more than 60,000 young people under the age of 18 are imprisoned across the country on a daily basis. [read post]
18 May 2010, 8:51 am
Today, the New York Civil Liberties Union, ACLU and LatinoJustice Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a federal lawsuit challenging a town ordinance in Oyster Bay Long Island that unfairly targets immigrant day laborers and essentially criminalizes "standing while Latino. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 10:53 pm
Today, in the first ever victory directly on this point, the ACLU won a federal court decision holding that discrimination against a transgender person constitutes per se discrimination based on sex in violation of Title VII. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 10:45 am
On Friday, the ACLU appeared before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to argue that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires the CIA to release documents describing its use of waterboarding. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 10:09 am
A class action lawsuit filed today by the ACLU, along with the Prison Law Office, the Arizona Center for Disability Law, and the law firms Jones Day and Perkins Coie, alleges that the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) houses thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement conditions so harsh they violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. [read post]
28 May 2010, 12:59 pm
I started working on privacy issues for the ACLU about five weeks before 9/11. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 2:52 pm
An almost-certainly innocent man was spared from death at the hands of the state of Texas yesterday when the highest criminal court in Texas threw out the death sentence of ACLU client Manuel Velez, ruling it was based on the false testimony of a state expert. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 9:28 am
Minsker is the death penalty policy director for the ACLU of Northern California. [read post]
25 Oct 2024, 4:27 pm
The qualifications to vote are clearly outlined by the ACLU: You must be a citizen of the United States. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 2:57 pm
The ACLU is hosting a blog series that will address some of the many reasons why the "Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986" (ECPA) is in need of an upgrade! [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 7:35 am
To mark the seventh anniversary of the publication of photographs that exposed torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, the New York Times published an ACLU/PEN American Center op-ed today honoring those who stood up against the torture policies of the Bush administration. [read post]
19 Apr 2020, 5:03 pm
Caroline Elwig (’22) worked at the ACLU Capital Punishment Project in Durham, NC. [read post]
5 Sep 2023, 5:37 am
[An important question, whether the judge orders lawyers to be trained on religious liberty by the Alliance Defending Freedom, on transgender rights by Lambda Legal, or on race discrimination law by the ACLU.] [read post]
