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ACLU Letter to Judiciary Leadership Urging an Inquiry into Reports of FBI Use of Racial Profiling (07/09/2008)
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, its hundreds of thousands of members and 53 affiliates nation-wide, we write to express concern about recent reports that the Justice Department will issue new Attorney General Guidelines authorizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to use racial profiling to open and conduct investigations on Americans, and we urge you to vigorously investigate these reports.

Coalition Letter to the Transportation Security Administration Urging the Auditing of Racial Profiling Abuses (04/04/2008)

The ACLU Urges Members of Congress to Co-Sponsor and Support the End Racial Profiling Act of 2007 (01/16/2008)
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a non-partisan organization with hundreds of thousands of activists, members and 53 affiliates nationwide, we strongly urge you to co-sponsor the End Racial Profiling Act of 2007 (ERPA). Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Representative John Conyers (D-MI) will introduce ERPA on Wednesday, December 12th and we encourage you to sign on to the bill as an original co-sponsor.

ACLU Letter to Congress Urging Co-Sponsorship and Support of End Racial Profiling Act of 2007 (06/20/2007)

ACLU Letter to Representative Bennie Thompson Regarding the Detention of Muslim Religious Leaders on November 20, 2006 At the Minneapolis Airport (11/28/2006)

ACLU Letter to Senator Joseph Lieberman Regarding the Detention of Muslim Religious Leaders on November 20, 2006 At the Minneapolis Airport (11/28/2006)

Racial Profiling Fact Sheet - 2006 ACLU Lobby Day (11/08/2006)

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights' Letter to Attorney General Gonzales Expressing Concern About the Suppression of a Bureau of Justice Statistics Report on Racial Profiling (08/30/2005)

Testimony By Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU Washington Office, Before the Democratic Party Platform Committee (06/19/2004)

ACLU Written Statement of Nadine Strossen, President, and Timothy Edgar, Legislative Counsel, before the United States Commission on Civil Rights at a Hearing on "Security and Liberty" (03/19/2004)

ACLU Letter to the Senate Urging Members to Co-Sponsor the End Racial Profiling Act of 2004 (02/19/2004)

ACLU Letter to the House Urging Members to Co-Sponsor the End Racial Profiling Act of 2004 (02/19/2004)

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) Coalition Letter Urging Senators to Oppose S. 274, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2003 (10/20/2003)

Attorney General John Ashcroft's Assault on Civil Liberties (Updated September 2003) (10/30/2002)

Sign-on Letter to the House Urging Opposition to H.R. 2155, the Sober Borders Act (10/15/2002)

Letter to the House Urging Opposition to H.R. 3129, "The Customs Border Security Act of 2001" (05/21/2002)

Testimony of Legislative Counsel Tim Edgar on S. 1749, The Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration (04/12/2002)

Testimony of National Capital Area Executive Director Johnny Barnes on DC Surveillance Cameras Before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on the District of Columbia (03/22/2002)

Testimony of Washington National Office Director Laura Murphy Before the United States Sentencing Commission (03/19/2002)