Press Releases | American Civil Liberties Union

Jun 22, 2023

ACLU Reaches Landmark Settlement in L.A. County Jails Case

LOS ANGELES – Today, U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson approved an extraordinary settlement between people incarcerated in Los Angeles jails — represented by the ACLU Natio...

Issue Areas: Criminal Law Reform Racial Justice LGBTQ Rights Prisoners' Rights

Court case: Rutherford v. Luna

Jun 22, 2023

ACLU Comment on Supreme Court’s Decision in Jones v. Hendrix

WASHINGTON – Today, in Jones v. Hendrix, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that federally incarcerated people who are actually innocent – because a prior decisi...

Issue Areas: Criminal Law Reform

Court case: Jones v. Hendrix

Jun 22, 2023

New Records Detail How the FBI Pressures Police to Keep Use of Shady Phone Surveillance Technology a Secret

The records, which the ACLU obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, shed light on the secrecy agreements the FBI forces state and local law enforcement agencies to sign if they want to use cell site simulators

Issue Areas: Privacy & Technology Criminal Law Reform National Security

Court case: ACLU v. FBI - FOIA Case for FBI Records Related to Nondisclosure Agreements for Cell Site Simulators

Jun 06, 2023

ACLU, NACDL, and Coalition of Civil Rights and Criminal Justice Groups Urge Congress to Vote “NO” on DEA Surveillance Bill

Instead of Meaningfully Addressing the Overdose Crisis, Cooper Davis Act Incentivizes Online Services to Surveill Users

Issue Areas: Criminal Law Reform Privacy & Technology

May 25, 2023

ACLU Acknowledges Improvements to DOJ Racial Profiling Policy, But Says Far More is Needed

On Anniversary of President Biden’s Policing Executive Order, ACLU Disappointed by Administration’s Failure to Fully Ban Discriminatory Profiling

Issue Areas: National Security Criminal Law Reform Racial Justice

Jan 27, 2023

ACLU Responds to Killing of Tyre Nichols

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Officials in Memphis are preparing to release body camera footage from the police beating that resulted in Tyre Nichols’ death. Five former Memphis police offi...

Issue Areas: Criminal Law Reform

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