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Report Need To Rein In NYPD Surveillance Of US Muslims

August 25, 2016 Staff, www.nyclu.org Resist! ACLU, New York (NY), NYPD

By Staff of NYCLU - The NYPD Inspector General today released a report that examined the NYPD’s compliance with the HandschuGuidelines -- which protect New Yorkers’ lawful political and religious activities from unwarranted surveillance – while investigating a sample of cases closed between 2010 and 2015 that mostly involved American Muslims. The report found that the NYPD failed to adhere to important safeguards that protect people’s rights and the integrity of investigations

U.S. Releases Drone Strike ‘Playbook’ In Response To Lawsuit

August 8, 2016 Josh Bell, www.www.ACLU.org Resist! ACLU, Drones, Lawsuit

By Josh Bell for ACLU - NEW YORK - In response to a court order in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Obama administration has released a redacted version of the White House document that sets out the government’s policy framework for drone strikes “outside the United States and areas of actual hostilities.” The Presidential Policy Guidance, once known as “the Playbook,” was issued by President Obama in May 2013 following promises of more transparency and stricter controls for the drone program. But while the administration released a short “fact sheet” describing the document, it did not release the PPG itself, or any part of it.

ACLU Sues Baton Rouge Police Department

July 15, 2016 Staff, www.ebony.com Resist! ACLU, Baton Rouge, Police

By Staff of Ebony - Louisiana state police and Baton Rouge law enforcement officials are being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and four other social justice groups for violating the constitutional rights of protesters over the past week. "This exercise of constitutional rights has been met with a military-grade assault on protesters' bodies and rights," reads the lawsuit filed by the ACLU.

Use of Error-Prone And Unfair Watchlists: No Way To Regulate Guns In America

June 27, 2016 Hina Shamsi and Chris Anders, www.aclu.org Create! ACLU, Gun Control

By Hina Shamsi and Chris Anders for ACLU - In the wake of the attack on LGBTQ Americans in Orlando, gun control is again at the forefront of the national conversation. It is also the subject of proposed legislation in Congress. We at the ACLU, like many other Americans, are appalled by the Orlando tragedy. We have deep concerns, however, about legislative efforts to regulate the use of guns by relying on our nation’s error-prone and unfair watchlisting system. That’s why we sent a letter today to the Senate, opposing legislation from Sen. Cornyn (R-Texas), which uses the watchlisting system as a predicate for gun regulation, and also opposing a proposal by Sen. Feinstein (D-Calif.)...

Colorado City To Pay People Jailed Because They Couldn’t Afford Fines

May 7, 2016 Staff, www.theguardian.com Create! ACLU, Colorado, Homelessness

By Staff of Associated Press - In a rare move, a Colorado city has agreed to pay dozens of people, most of them homeless, who were sent to jail because they could not afford to pay fines for minor offenses such as panhandling and jaywalking. The $103,000 deal requires Colorado Springs to pay up to 66 people $125 for each day they spent behind bars. The city said municipal courts stopped imposing “pay or serve” sentences by the end of 2015 and the ordinances that allowed the practice have been changed.

Federal Judge Upholds ‘Discriminatory’ NC Voter ID Law

April 27, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Educate! ACLU, discrimination, North Carolina

By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - North Carolina's sweeping and controversial election reform law, HB 589, was upheld on Monday by a federal judge in Winston-Salem, prompting vows to appeal from the plaintiffs who allege that the legislation's dramatic voting restrictions widely disenfranchise minority voters. "The sweeping barriers imposed by this law undermine voter participation and have an overwhelmingly discriminatory impact on African-Americans. This ruling does not change that reality. We are already examining an appeal," said Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, in a statement.

ACLU Condemns Surveillance Of Black Lives Matter Activists

April 23, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, ACLU, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Oregon, Surveillance

By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - PORTLAND, Oregon — An investigation of social media surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists shows a pattern of systemic racism and disregard for the law, according to an Oregon civil rights group. The comments from the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon came in response to a report issued this month by the Oregon Department of Justice on the DOJ’s Criminal Justice Division’s monitoring of the social media use of Black Lives Matter activists.

ACLU Critical Of Chicago Monitoring Protesters

April 11, 2016 Sarah Tisinger, www.wqad.com Resist! ACLU, Chicago, Protests, Surveillance

By Sarah Tisinger for WQAD - CHICAGO (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois says reports of Chicago police monitoring peaceful protest groups is “unsettling” and is calling for City Council hearings. The group issued a Sunday statement responding to a Chicago Sun-Times report, which outlined seven investigations by police since 2009 to monitor groups exercising free-speech rights. Emails released by the city in the wake of the 2014 fatal police-involved shooting of Laquan McDonald showed officials watched actions of protesters closely. The black teenager was shot by a white officer 16 times.

ACLU Brief: Military Continues To Harm Chelsea Manning’s Health

December 23, 2015 Jos Truitt, www.feministing.com Resist! ACLU, Chelsea Manning

By Jos Truitt for Feministing - Last night, the ACLU filed an opposition brief in the case of Chelsea Manning’s medical care. The military finally began providing Manning hormones at the beginning of this year, but they are still requiring her to follow male grooming standards. ACLU staff attorney Chase Strangio explained to me, “Chelsea has been fighting since she arrived at the [United States Disciplinary Barracks] more than two years ago to receive treatment for her gender dysphoria and to be treated like the woman that she is.

New App For Police Encounters By The ACLU

November 8, 2015 the ACLU of Maryland, www.aclu-md.org Resist! ACLU, Police abuse, Police violence, Video

By the ACLU of Maryland. Denial is over. Videos of police encounters are changing perceptions about biased policing and police brutality and sparking reform of police practices. That's why the ACLU has launched Mobile Justice, an app that makes it easy for you to record interactions with police. It'll be available for download in Maryland, as well as 10 more states on Friday, November 13! The Mobile Justice app (for iPhone and Android) will allow you to take secure video of police interactions and send it to the ACLU so it cannot be deleted or lost if your phone is confiscated by police. It will also have an intake survey where you can describe the details of the incident, and a Know Your Rights section that offers an overview of your rights when stopped by law enforcement.

U.S. Government Snubs ACLU Over Targeted Killing FOIA

October 8, 2015 Kevin Gosztola, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! ACLU

By Kevin Gosztola for Mint Press News and Shadowproof, The United States government gave the American Civil Liberties Union the equivalent of the middle finger in response to a request for records on the “targeted killing program.” An eight-page letter from Director for National Intelligence James Clapper to the chairs of the Senate intelligence committee, Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss and Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, was disclosed. The senators were chairs during 2013 and 2014. However, all eight pages were completely blacked out. That is, except for one full sentence, which makes the response even more offensive: “We hope this information has been helpful and look forward to continuing to work with the Committee on this bill.” It is not the first time the ACLU has received this kind of response from a government agency.

Chicago Stop & Frisk Settlement Puts ACLU At Odds With Activists

August 15, 2015 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Educate! ACLU, Chicago, Law, police brutality

By Kevin Gosztola in Shadow Proof - Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois announced a “landmark” agreement with the Chicago Police Department and the City of Chicago on stop and frisks by police officers. However, in the days following, it became evident that activists from the local movement for police accountability were upset because they believed the ACLU’s settlement undermined their efforts. Local activist groups planned to introduce an ordinance in the Chicago City Council to hopefully bring about “mandated collection and publication of CPD’s stop and frisk data.” Yet, secret negotiations led city council persons, who support the bill, to not file the legislation on July 28, even though a packed press conference was held.

ACLU, Wikimedia & Others Sue NSA To Take Back The Internet

March 11, 2015 Patrick Toomey, www.aclu.org Resist! ACLU, Law, NSA, Privacy, Snowden, Surveillance

Every time you email someone overseas, the NSA copies and searches your message. It makes no difference if you or the person you're communicating with has done anything wrong. If the NSA believes your message could contain information relating to the foreign affairs of the United States – because of whom you're talking to, or whom you're talking about – it may hold on to it for as long as three years and sometimes much longer. A new ACLU lawsuit filed today challenges this dragnet spying, called "upstream" surveillance, on behalf of Wikimedia and a broad coalition of educational, human rights, legal, and media organizations whose work depends on the privacy of their communications. The plaintiffs include Amnesty International USA, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and The Nation magazine, and many other organizations whose work is critical to the functioning of our democracy.

NSA Waited Until Christmas Eve To Reveal Self-Audit

December 27, 2014 Kevin Collier, www.dailydot.com Educate! ACLU, Law, NSA, Surveillance

In an extremely conspicuous move, the NSA chose Christmas Eve to release an internal review of the times the agency caught employees spying on Americans. The report is a collection of documents, heavily redacted, arranged by quarter, and ranging from the end of 2001 to the end of 2012. They largely catalog individual instances where a National Security Agency employee illegally or mistakenly used the agency’s powerful technology to search an American or a foreigner in the U.S. without a warrant, was caught, reprimanded, and the information deleted. According to Bloomberg, the report is due to the agency’s legal obligation to answer an ACLU Freedom of Information Act request, though the NSA doesn’t mention that as a reason.

Immigrants’ Rights Groups Sue US Government

August 30, 2014 Michael Oleaga , www.latinpost.com Resist! ACLU, ICE, Immigration

National immigrants' rights groups are suing the U.S. government over claims of lack of due process for "scores" of Central American women and children at the Artesia immigrant detention facility in New Mexico. The American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Council, National Immigration Law Center, and National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild announced their lawsuit in response to what they say is a failure of immigration laws. The national immigrants' rights groups claimed the federal government has denied fair deportation processes for mothers and children, notably in Artesia. American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project Director Cecillia Wang said the purpose of the lawsuit is to "challenge" the U.S. government's procedures on policing immigrants, saying they are trying to deport them "as soon as possible." Wang said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson's message to immigrants was "We will send you back" to their native countries, despite the ongoing difficulties happening at home. Wang said their immigrant clients have "repeatedly" been told by border patrol that they will be deported. An immigratio

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