This week, our federal online privacy law turns 25. 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! Spread the word using #Up...
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(Updated 10/20/2011) Due Process Demands Texas Man Who Maintains Innocence Be Given New Trial FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org AUSTIN, Texas – The American Civil Liberties Union today argued before the Texas Court of...
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Imagine that someone assumes that you are a criminal based on your race, religion or ethnicity and treats you like one. Take the case of the Latino students at Hoover High School in Los Angeles who were rounded up during lunch, detained for two hour...
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Today, the ACLU, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and the NAACP filed a lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia, which violated the First Amendment when it refused to accept an NAACP advertisement in the city's airport. The ad is part of a campaign to ...
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The Department of Homeland Security assumes that mass detention is the key to immigration enforcement. But in fact, our detention system locks up thousands of immigrants unnecessarily every year, exposing detainees to brutal and inhumane conditions o...
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ACLU of Texas Today Files Federal Lawsuit on Behalf of Women Assaulted at T. Don Hutto Detention Center FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org NEW YORK – Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union through the...
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According to government documents, nearly 200 allegations of abuse from detainees in detention facilities across the nation have been fielded by government officials since 2007 alone. And given that sexual abuse is a problem that is widely underreporte...
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Refusal to Accept Ad Violates First Amendment Freedom of Speech FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org PHILADELPHIA – The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Pennsylvania and the NAACP today filed a lawsuit against the...
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Law Targeted Abortion Providers and Threatened Closure of Dodge City Clinic that Never Offered Abortion Care FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org KANSAS CITY, KS – A Kansas judge today temporarily blocked a state law tha...
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Law Targeted Abortion Providers and Threatened Closure of Dodge City Clinic that Never Offered Abortion Care FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org KANSAS CITY, KS – A Kansas judge today temporarily blocked a state law tha...
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