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NYPD Critics Want Answers
New Haven Independent 49 minutes ago

The advocates called on municipal police officials throughout the state, including New Haven, to release detailed information on what they know about the NYPD’s local activities. Two of the civil-rights groups—the Connecticut chapter of the Council on...
Va. passes contentious gay adoption bill
Jamestown Sun 52 minutes ago

William County and Phillip Puckett of Russell County. The Child Welfare League of America sent a letter to senators earlier in the session urging them to reject the bill, saying it would make it more difficult to place the approximately 1,300 Virginia...
AP Photo 1 week ago

The Mt. Soledad Cross stands over the Mt. Soledad Memorial where a rally was held supporting the fight to save the cross from being removed Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 in San Diego. The Mt. Soledad Memorial Association is petitioning the Supreme Court in... View Photo »
I have excellent team of lawyers from the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and ACLU representing me pro-bono ... I couldn’t have been represented by a greater team of experts.
SOURCE: Mashable 1 month ago
ACLU: CT Towns Keep License Plate Scan Data
CBS New York 1 hour ago

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut filed a Freedom of Information Act request and learned that a police in ten towns compiled a database of more than 3 million license plate scans by patrol cars. The pubic can get...
Domestic Drones: Big Brother's Prying Eyes in the Sky
American Civil Liberties Union 1 hour ago

The available technology is already incredibly powerful. A surveillance drone can already be used to track a person as she travels from, say, her house to her doctor's office to her place of worship to her school. Within a few years, it may be perfectly...
Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights
American Civil Liberties Union 1 hour ago

Today, that number has skyrocketed to over 5,000. The story is the same in every state and federal prison system. A generation of tough-on-crime laws wielding long sentences has caused staggering numbers of prisoners to grow old behind bars. American...
AP Photo 1 week ago

The sunlight glows through the cross at Mt. Soledad Memorial Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 in San Diego. The Mt. Soledad Memorial Association is petitioning the Supreme Court to stop the demolition of the cross mandated by a ACLU lawsuit that claims the cross... View Photo »
There’s no employer out there right now — not law firms, not the Department of Justice, not the ACLU — that are seeking out these graduates. These programs haven’t affected hiring patterns
– William Henderson SOURCE: The Volokh Conspiracy 1 month ago
The Right to Assemble: ACLU on RNC police action
YouTube Videos 41 months ago
Infographic: The NSA Unchained
American Civil Liberties Union 2 hours ago

Through powers granted through the 2008 FISA Amendments Act — the authority that our lawsuit challenges — the National Security Agency (NSA) collects and stores mountains of information every day. Our new infographic details some of the ways in which...
City balancing act
Columbia Chronicle 3 hours ago

“I don’t know if the average police officer of today is prepared to deal with the domestic and social issues that police are expected to act on. I think that it’s more militaristic than it’s ever been.” According to Edwin Yohnka, director of...

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) consists of two separate non-profit organizations: the ACLU Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization which focuses on litigation and communication efforts, and the American Civil Liberties Union, a 501(c)(4) organization which focuses on legislative lobbying. The ACLU's stated mission is "to defend and... Full Article

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