Press Releases
Nov 02, 2015
ACLU Comment on President Obama’s Actions to Promote Rehabilitation and Reintegration for the Formerly Incarcerated
NEW YORK — In response to President Obama’s actions meant to help Americans who have paid their debts to society, Jeffery Robinson, deputy legal director of the American Civil ...
Oct 29, 2015
ACLU Comment on Immigration Bond Hearing Ruling
PASADENA, Calif. — A federal appeals court has affirmed and expanded its prior ruling that immigrants in prolonged detention receive a bond hearing. The Ninth Circuit Court of Ap...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Court case: Rodriguez, et al. v. Robbins, et al.
Oct 27, 2015
New Report Examines Why Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence Don’t Call the Police
ACLU, CUNY School of Law, and University of Miami School of Law Release Findings of Gender-Biased Policing Survey
Oct 27, 2015
ACLU of South Carolina Comment on Video of Violence Against Student by School Resource Officer
CHARLESTON – Cell phone videos surfaced on social media today of a school resource officer at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, using excessive force on a fe...
Issue Areas:
Juvenile Justice
Racial Justice
Oct 27, 2015
ACLU Comment on the Passing of Alvin J. Bronstein, Prisoners' Rights Champion
Alvin J. Bronstein, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project, died on Saturday afternoon. He was 87.
Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of th...
Oct 23, 2015
Court Dismisses ACLU Challenge to NSA Internet Surveillance
Case Was Brought on Behalf of Wikimedia, Human Rights Groups, Others
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