Filed Under (ACLU Blog Posts) by webmaster on 04-30-2008
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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Filed Under (ACLU Blog Posts) by webmaster on 04-30-2008
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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Filed Under (ACLU Blog Posts) by webmaster on 04-30-2008
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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Filed Under (ACLU Blog Posts) by webmaster on 04-30-2008
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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Filed Under (ACLU Blog Posts) by webmaster on 04-30-2008
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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Filed Under (ACLU Blog Posts) by webmaster on 04-30-2008
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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Filed Under (ACLU Blog Posts) by webmaster on 04-30-2008
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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Filed Under (ACLU Blog Posts) by webmaster on 04-30-2008
PRINCIPAL OUTS GAY KIDS, ACLU STEPS IN.
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