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 u...
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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 u...
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We may be a few months out from the new year, but it's safe to say that the demise of Don't Ask, Don't Tell will be marked as a highlight of 2011. The end of that discriminatory statute and its demeaning implications to the men and women who serve...
Categories: DADT, Don't Ask Don't Tell, military service, Richard Collins, separation pay Tags:
Galen Sherwin of the ACLU Women's Rights Project was recently featured in the New York Times' Online Room for Debate discussing the drawbacks to sex-segregated education in public schools. Galen's essay was one of seven featured in the debate, whi...
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Last year the Department of Homeland Security detained and deported more than 400,000 immigrants — the highest number to date. Today, PBS Frontline takes a penetrating look at the Obama administration’s vastly expanded immigrat...
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Today, there are over 2.3 million men and women in prisons throughout the United States. We incarcerate more of our population than any country in the world, and the increased incarceration of offenders with drug offenses represents the most signif...
Categories: drug sentencing, Hamedah Hasan, sentencing disparity, sentencing reform Tags:
Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) made it clear that significant changes to the detention provisions in the Defense Authorization bill are in order. In a letter to Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ), Reid tol...
Categories: Carl Levin, detention, Harry Reid, indefinite detention, John McCain, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, posse comitatus Tags:
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 usin...
Categories: Asa Hutchinson, David Keene, ECPA at 25, GPS Act, Jason Chaffetz, Mark Kirk, Mickey Edwards, Peter Welch, Ron Wyden, William Sessions Tags:
In recent weeks, local police have been circulating predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods in Alabama, asking those standing on the street to go inside their homes or face arrest — all because the state passed a law requiring police to be immigr...
Categories: End Racial Profiling Act, racial discrimination, racial profiling, Three Faces of Racial Profiling Tags:
BOSTON – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Massachusetts argued in federal court today that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must be prohibited from imposing religiously based restrictions on reproductive health ...
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