In recent history, challenges to the right to protest have come in many forms. In some cases, police crack down on demonstrations through mass arrests, illegal use of force, or curfews. Elsewhere, law ...

The Supreme Court recently ruled to uphold laws in Idaho and West Virginia banning transgender women and girls from school ...

WASHINGTON— The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report, Agents of Chaos and Cruelty, documenting widespread civil rights violations carried out by immigration agents during the ...

This ACLU research report, Agents of Chaos and Cruelty, documents widespread civil rights violations carried out by immigration agents during the first year of President Trump’s second term. The ...

2 randomized controlled trial in one police department found that officers using the technology didn’t write their reports any faster than those who wrote them the old-fashioned way. That’s just one ...

For more than 90 years, Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters, known as Main Justice, has had a warning engraved prominently on its stone walls: "Where law ends tyranny begins," attributed to John ...

Before we get into tactics you can employ in your advocacy, take a moment to think through the levels of government that are involved in making decisions and policy regarding education. Many of the ...

Do meaningful work, create lasting change. We work to defend and expand civil rights and liberties – for everyone. Whether we’re arguing in the courts, leading campaigns, advocating in communities, ...

The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) authored a legal opinion that reportedly claims to justify the Trump administration’s illegal lethal strikes on civilians in boats in the ...

A little noticed surveillance technology, designed to track the movements of every passing driver, is fast proliferating on America’s streets. Automatic license plate readers, mounted on police cars ...

[Updated November 2018] The map below tracks what we know, based on press reports and publicly available documents, about the use of stingray tracking devices by state and local police departments.