Strategy shifted in challenge of sex offender ordinance – Boston Globe

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Strategy shifted in challenge of sex offender ordinance
Boston Globe, United States -1 hour ago
AP / April 30, 2008 DOVER, NH – A New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against the city of Dover contending that its sexual-offender ordinance is

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A Little Stop-and-Frisk May Turn Up a Little Pot – New York Times

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A Little Stop-and-Frisk May Turn Up a Little Pot
New York Times, United States -8 hours ago
The report, released by the New York Civil Liberties Union, was based on government statistics, interviews with lawyers, people who were arrested,
NYC Marijuana Possession Arrests Skyrocket, Illustrate NYPD Racial Monthly Review
NYCLU says city is now world's 'marijuana arrest capital'Newsday
On Arrests, Demographics, and MarijuanaNew York Times
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ACLU Testifies before Senate against Real ID

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WASHINGTON – Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office testified today about the privacy and security concerns with creating a federal identity document every American will need in order to fly on

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ACLU Texas sends reply to email

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The ACLU of Texas has been inundated in recent days with calls from people who want to know what we are doing to respond to the government’s April 3 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of

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Former Guantanamo Prosecutor Testifies on Broken Military

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This week, Ben Wizner, Staff Attorney for the ACLU’s National Security Project, is in Guantánamo as a human rights observer for the military commission hearing of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, and blogged about yesterday’s hearing in our DailyKos

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Documents Obtained By ACLU Describe Charges Of Murder And Torture

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The documents from the military’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID), obtained as a result of the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, include the first on-the-ground reports of torture in Gardez, Afghanistan to be

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Government Admits to Culpability in Detainee's Death

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Tom Jawetz, a Staff Attorney for the ACLU’s National Prison Project who’s currently litigating a case against ICE for inadequate medical treatment at the San Diego facility, says:. The admission of medical negligence comes just six

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Dinner, dancin' and the ACLU

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On Tuesday night, the community said good-bye to Jack Van Valkenburgh, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Idaho. His resignation, after 18 years, caught many by surprise. A party was planned and invites went out.

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Not Solitary Confinement: They're "Single-Occupancy Cells"

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Deficient care for the mentally ill was also the subject of hearing yesterday in Michigan, where the ACLU argued that Michigan prisons not meet constitutional standards for medical and mental health care. This problem came to light

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PRINCIPAL OUTS GAY KIDS, ACLU STEPS IN

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PRINCIPAL OUTS GAY KIDS, ACLU STEPS IN.

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