True or false: Aggressive collection of legal financial obligations creates a two-tiered system of justice in which the poorest defendants are punished more harshly than those with means.
Which court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act means that the contraceptive coverage rule – which ensures access to affordable birth control for millions of women across the country – is still in place?
In which state will a megabill have an impact on 100 percent of abortion providers, according to a new ACLU infographic?
Which legislative body convened the first-ever hearing on the dangers of long-term solitary confinement?
Which standardized testing group announced a new, fairer lactation policy for nursing moms?
In which state are gay and lesbian parents banned from adopting their partners’ kids?
Which government agency found that a Texas school violated a student’s civil rights under Title IX when it failed to investigate the sexual assault she reported?
Which religious lobbying group is holding a “fortnight for freedom” because it wants to use religious liberty as a license to discriminate?
Why should you care about surveillance if you have nothing to hide?
True or False? Several states including Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawai’i, Illinois, Louisiana, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Washington and West Virginia have taken steps to reduce overincarceration.
Which law that discriminates against same-sex couples was ruled unconstitutional by yet another federal judge?
Which court has agreed to hear our case challenging the FISA Amendments Act, which authorizes NSA warrantless wiretapping?
The ACLU sent letters to school districts in which states regarding single-sex education programs thatpromote harmful sex stereotypes?
Members of the Select Senate Committee on Intelligence met in secret this week, according to press reports, to approve legislation to extend what sweeping surveillance law?
By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 10:20am
A few links that have caught our eye this past week:
The Citynewswatch blog in Charlotte, NC has a nice post on that city’s new license plate reader program, among other surveillance systems (pity any city that hosts a major national or international event these days). Among many other good points, Citynewswatch highlights the fact that they are being funded via our deeplytroubling civil asset forfeiture laws. I didn’t mention it in my blog the other day but the ALPR program being pushed in Utah by the DEA is being similarly funded.
