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27 Jan 2016, 8:45 am
For years, that vision — solitary reduced to a rarity or eliminated altogether — has motivated the ACLU, the faith community, human rights leaders like UN Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez, prisoners and their families, and the many others in the movement against solitary confinement. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 12:45 pm
In April 2016, the ACLU of Ohio and Demos challenged Ohio’s purge process for violating the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which prohibits removing voters from the rolls solely because they did not vote in an election. [read post]
13 Aug 2021, 7:53 am by Jacquelyne Germain
On this week’s episode of At Liberty, Ria Tabacco Mar, director of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, discusses the various obstacles Black women athletes face in the Olympics both on and off the field, and how Black women across the country are making clear that they will no longer be pushed off the podium. [read post]
7 Mar 2022, 5:30 am by Joy
Here’s why lawyers and advocates are worriedOath Keeper pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy, will cooperate with Justice DepartmentMan wanted by Toronto police after Chinese law firms reportedly targeted in $10M mortgage fraud scamJudge blocks New York attorney general's attempt to dissolve NRA but allows suit to proceedConvoy organizer Tamara Lich to remain in jail at least 5 more daysTexas Court Halts Investigation of Parents Over Care for Transgender YouthTexas judge grants… [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 2:41 pm by Matthew Guariglia
Along with over a dozen organizations, including ACLU, Center for Democracy in Technology, Demand Progress, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Project on Government Oversight, Brennan Center, EFF lent its voice to the request that the following reforms be the bare minimum for precondition for any re-authorization of Section 702:  Requiring the government to obtain a warrant before searching the content of Americans’ communications collected under intelligence authorities; … [read post]
The ACLU interviewed 13 children in Mexico but only one, Hector, said he was asked any questions about his fear of returning to Mexico or if he wanted to see a judge. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 2:00 pm by Matthew Harwood
The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Washington, and Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 3:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In response to recent proposed rule changes by the BJS, a coalition of organizations led by the ACLU and NAACP wrote a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch calling on the DOJ to "condition federal criminal justice grants on data collection and reporting on police-civilian encounters. [read post]
Today, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI, the DEA, the Secret Service, and several other agencies asking for information about a surveillance technique known as a “cell tower dump. [read post]
As a joint ACLU/MergerWatch report showed, 10 of the 25 largest health systems in the United States in 2011 were Catholic-sponsored. [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 11:24 am by Adam Schwartz
Our fellow amici are ACLU, CDT, the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, PIRG, and Lucy Parsons Labs. [read post]
13 Mar 2018, 10:15 am
This week, the ACLU of Louisiana sued on Morris’s behalf, asserting that murals are a constitutionally protected form of artistic expression and that the permit scheme the city has implemented to regulate them infringes residents’ First Amendment rights. [read post]
29 Jun 2022, 9:15 am by Vera Eidelman
We represent these distributors alongside the ACLU of Virginia and Michael Bamberger of Dentons, arguing that the case threatens the rights of both young and adult readers — and the First Amendment rights of our clients, as well as other booksellers, distributors, and publishers, to provide access to such materials. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 11:20 am by LaLa B Holston-Zannell
The ACLU has joined 22 other civil rights groups in demanding a stop to PayPal and Venmo’s practices that harm vulnerable communities by shutting people out without due process. [read post]
15 Aug 2019, 5:10 pm by Jamie Williams
EFF and the ACLU filed an amicus brief in the case back in 2016, warning that the search condition imposed here was highly invasive, unconstitutional, and in violation of the California Supreme Court’s own standard for probation conditions—which requires that search conditions be “reasonably related to future criminality. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 6:46 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several other groups opposed SB 57 because they feared that the bill would “only add to the existing problem of overcrowding. [read post]
1 Dec 2019, 6:00 am by LaLa B Holston-Zannell
That’s why the ACLU’s Trans Justice campaign, along with local partners and organizations led by current and former sex workers, is fighting to end the targeting of trans people by decriminalizing sex work. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 4:24 pm by Parker Higgins
EFF submitted a brief joined by a half-dozen other public interest groups, including the ACLU, Public Knowledge, CDT, New Media Rights, the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries. [read post]