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ACLU Urges Senate: Ask FBI the Tough Questions (03/05/2008)
Washington, DC – As the Senate Judiciary Committee was set to question FBI Director Robert Mueller III today, the American Civil Liberties Union urged the committee to ask Director Mueller the tough questions about the bureau’s civil liberties record.

Terrorist Watch List Attacked for Size, Ineffectiveness, House committee grills government directors on unwieldy watch list (11/08/2007)
Washington, DC – The House Homeland Security Committee grilled government officials today about the government’s terrorist watch list, asking the same question the American Civil Liberties Union has been posing for years: Why is the list so enormous? The list has ballooned to 860,000 people and continues to grow.

ACLU Calls for Stricter Oversight of Terrorist Watch Lists (10/24/2007)
Washington, DC – Today the Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on terror watch lists, an issue that the American Civil Liberties Union has been carefully observing since September 11, 2001. This comes on the heels of a GAO report that was released today detailing the progress of the Terrorist Screening Centers. The ACLU noted that though the report states some progress was achieved, that progress is still heavily outweighed by major concerns regarding privacy and efficiency.

The ACLU’s Views On Atlanta Man’s Quarantine Case (05/30/2007)
Statement of Barry Steinhardt Director, ACLU Technology and Liberty Project

DHS Acknowledges That Terror Ranking Program Is Already in Effect, ACLU Says Program Violates Congressional Spending Ban and Public Notice Requirements (12/07/2006)
WASHINGTON - In a notice scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security acknowledges that its controversial Automated Targeting System terror-ranking program is already in operation - despite a congressional ban on such ranking systems and despite the fact that Congress and the public were never properly notified. In response, the American Civil Liberties Union today called on Congress to put a halt to this program and look into why it was created without public notice.

ACLU Calls on DHS to Withdraw Plan For Tagging Americans With 40-Year “Risk Assessments” (12/01/2006)
WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union today condemned an unprecedented new program for generating terrorist ratings on tens of millions of travelers, including American citizens, maintaining those ratings for 40 years, and making them available throughout the government.

ACLU and Allies Oppose Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, Say Plan Undermines Privacy, Provides Little Security (09/07/2006)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today joined with Citizen Against Government Waste and the Cato Institute to oppose the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). The WHTI will require all travelers, including American citizens, to have a passport or other "appropriate security document" to enter or re-enter the United States from countries within the Western Hemisphere, including Canada and Mexico.

TSA Search Policies Need to Provide Security, Protect Privacy, ACLU Says; Calls on Congress to Adopt Least Intrusive, Most Effective Measures (04/04/2006)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to direct the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to adopt policies regarding the physical screening of cargo and passengers that both provide security and protect privacy. Lawmakers were also urged to eliminate support for ineffective airline passenger screening programs such as Secure Flight and Registered Traveler in favor of more effective security measures.

ACLU Calls for End to Secure Flight and Registered Traveler Programs, Says TSA Passenger Screening Plans Fail to Identify Threats (02/09/2006)
WASHINGTON - Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged Congress to end two fatally flawed, airline passenger pre-screening systems operated by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA): Secure Flight and the Registered Traveler program. Both programs make America less safe while violating travelers’ civil liberties.

ACLU Defends Colorado Bus Rider Arrested by Homeland Security for Not Showing ID (11/23/2005)
DENVER -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado announced today that its attorneys will defend Deborah Davis, a Denver-area passenger on a public bus who declined to produce identification and was subsequently arrested, handcuffed and removed by Homeland Security officers at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood. Davis is scheduled to appear in federal district court on December 9 to face criminal charges stemming from her failure to show ID.

ACLU Says New Border Fingerprinting System Likely To Sow Confusion, Tracking of Arab and Muslims Based on National Origin Will Continue (01/05/2004)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today warned that a new immigrant tracking program, known as US VISIT, can only increase confusion among immigrants to the United States in terms of when, where and how they have to register with the government, and will do nothing to end discriminatory tracking of Arabs and Muslims based on national origin and religion.

ACLU, Conservatives, Civil Rights Groups Agree: CAPPS II Raises Serious Privacy and Security Concerns (08/25/2003)
WASHINGTON - At a forum entitled ""CAPPS II: Passenger Screening and Privacy Concerns,"" hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union, prominent conservatives and the Washington head of the NAACP today warned Congress about potential threats to privacy and civil rights under the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) now infamous Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System (CAPPS II) airport spying system.

ACLU Cautions Against New TSA Airport Spying Proposal; Says Changes Expand Program Beyond Fighting Terrorism (07/31/2003)
WASHINGTON - Responding to the Transportation Safety Administration's publication of new proposed guidelines for its now infamous Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System, or CAPPS II, airport spying system, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged continued caution around the program, saying that several basic problems with the system remain and that the proposal would expand it beyond fighting terrorism.

Government Agency Releases Documents on "No Fly" List; ACLU Says Many Questions Still Remain Unanswered (07/22/2003)
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California today said there were ""troubling inadequacies"" with the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) management of its ""no fly"" list following a review of documents that were recently released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act.

ACLU Criticizes CAPPS II in New Online Advertisements (04/02/2003)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today launched a new online advertising campaign addressing the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II, the Transportation Security Administration's airline passenger profiling system that threatens to create a permanent blacklist of people who cannot fly.

Right-Left Groups Tell Homeland Security Committee to Curb CAPPS II (03/25/2003)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today joined several groups from across the political spectrum in urging Congress to halt further deployment of the controversial airline surveillance system known as the Computer-Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System or CAPPS II.

CAPPS II Data-Mining System Will Invade Privacy and Create Government Blacklist of Americans, ACLU Warns (02/27/2003)
WASHINGTON -- A secretive new system for conducting background checks on all airline passengers threatens to create a bureaucratic machine for destroying Americans' privacy and a government blacklist that will harm innocent Americans, the ACLU said today.

ACLU Files Comments on Apparent CAPPS II Twin Initiative; Says "Aviation Security Screening Records" Hurts Safety and Freedom (02/24/2003)
WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union filed comments today on the proposed Aviation Security Screening Records (ASSR) database, which it says bears a striking and troubling resemblance to the planned traveler surveillance system known as Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II).

ACLU of Northern CA Seeks Government Accountability Regarding Federal "No Fly" List (12/12/2002)
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California today filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act seeking information about the government's "no fly list" and other government watch lists.

ACLU Hails Victories In New Homeland Security Bill: Operation TIPS, National ID Rejected By Congress (11/13/2002)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded several provisions in the latest homeland security bill -- including those that would prohibit the implementation of the controversial Operation TIPS program and reject a national ID card -- as victories for civil liberties.