This Week in Civil Liberties

02/22/2013
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Week in Civil Liberties (02/22/2013)

By Amanda Corlett, ACLU at 4:13pm

How did President Obama respond when asked whether or not his administration can kill a United States citizen - while on U. S. soil - suspected of terrorist activities?

What new drone-based surveillance technology can track a car or pedestrian in high definition anywhere in the U.S.?

Which Florida university has granted sports stadium naming rights to a notorious private prison company?

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02/01/2013
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Week in Civil Liberties (02/01/2013)

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 4:29pm

The son of which celebrity is currently being held in solitary confinement, a method of extreme isolation that costs taxpayers money and does not contribute toward rehabilitation?

A school in which state has ended its ban on a book about a family with two moms after the ACLU challenged the book ban in court?

Which member of the executive branch announced his support for federal immigration reform this week?

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01/25/2013
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Week in Civil Liberties (1/25/2013)

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 4:33pm

In what U.S. city was a woman targeted, forced off a plane, detained and strip searched solely based on her ethnicity?

Which company released a transparency report on the number of government requests for customer information this week?

How many restrictions to abortions did state politicians pass from 2011-2012 (40 years after Roe v. Wade)?

When was the most recent federal law concerning the privacy of your electronic communications (like e-mail and Facebook) enacted?

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01/11/2013
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Week in Civil Liberties (1/11/2013)

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 4:29pm

Are text messages protected by the higher privacy standards of surveillance laws that protect Internet communications (like email), or are they treated like phone calls?

How many years of litigation were required before the government agreed to pay gay and lesbian service members the same severance pay that other service members received?

For how many hours a day was Pfc. Bradley Manning isolated in a windowless cell, awaiting trial for allegedly leaking U.S. military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks?

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12/31/2012
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Year in Civil Liberties – 2012

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 12:00am

In which state did politicians attempt to pass a bill that would allow anti-abortion doctors to lie to their patients in order to prevent them from ending their pregnancies?

The “Criminalizing Protest” Bill raises issues of significance to which Constitutional amendment?

A school in which state forced female students to take pregnancy tests and then kicked out students who refused or were pregnant?

Which news organization reported on the failure of Florida’s costly and unconstitutional bill mandating suspicion-less drug testing of all applicants for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)?

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12/14/2012
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Week in Civil Liberties (12/14/2012)

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 4:34pm

A spying program run by what agency allows the government unprecedented surveillance powers to collect and analyze information on innocent American citizens?

In which state do politicians need a reminder that saving a woman’s life must be every hospital’s first priority?

A subcommittee in which legislative house held the first-ever congressional hearing on the school-to-prison pipeline?

Can a civilian find enough information to build a surveillance or armed drone by searching the terms “DIY” and “drone”?

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12/07/2012
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Week in Civil Liberties (12/07/2012)

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 5:16pm

Is the Obama administration’s drone war legal?

Which ACLU affiliate continues to fight for transit equity 58 years after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?

In which state is the ACLU challenging an irrational and counterproductive state corrections policy on the segregation of HIV-positive prisoners?

How can you help ensure women in the military receive the same insurance coverage for abortion that is given to all other federal employees?

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11/30/2012
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Week in Civil Liberties (11/30/2012)

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 5:05pm

The Feinstein Amendment to which bill on indefinite detention looks like a fix, but would actually cause more harm?

The ACLU requested information from federal agencies this week on whether certain privacy-enhancing tools actually expose you to warrantless surveillance?

What military policy, challenged this week by the ACLU, categorically excludes women from more than 200,000 military positions that are open to men?

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11/09/2012
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Week in Civil Liberties (11/09/2012)

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 4:29pm

How can you ensure your state officials protect your civil liberties?

In which state was a lawsuit filed regarding a new software patch installed on voting machines?

Ballot measure victories for the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in Maine, Maryland  and Washington will likely affect which federal court’s decision on the Defense of Marriage Act?

Voters in which three states approved smart drug law reform regarding marijuana?

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10/26/2012
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Week in Civil Liberties (10/26/2012)

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 6:24pm

What new location tracking device could be used for invasive government surveillance?

The ACLU is seeking information from the federal government on its use of what kind of surveillance technology?

In which state did Marty Atencio die after being beaten by guards in one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Maricopa County jails?

The ACLU will be at the Supreme Court on Monday for our case against which law that authorized the NSA warrantless wiretapping program?

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