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Welfare Reform Must Aim to Eliminate Poverty and Protect Civil Rights; Current Legislation Not Up to Task, ACLU Says (02/13/2003)
WASHINGTON - Saying that an effective welfare system must have poverty reduction as its highest priority, the American Civil Liberties Union today warned Congress that welfare reform legislation set for consideration this afternoon in the House is not up to the task and would, in many cases, open doors in the states to significant violations of the core civil liberties of welfare recipients.

ACLU Hails Privacy Victory as Congress Curbs Pentagon Data Program; Says Further Congressional Action Required on Super Snoop System (02/12/2003)
WASHINGTON - Responding to the reported acceptance by congressional negotiators of legislation limiting the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness program, the American Civil Liberties Union today called the move a victory for privacy and urged Congress to continue to ensure that the super-snoop program not be allowed to spy on Americans' private lives.

ACLU Says Independent Total Information Awareness Advisory Group Compliments, But Must Not Replace, Congressional Scrutiny (02/07/2003)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today said that a newly announced independent advisory group, which the Pentagon said will oversee development of the Total Information Awareness system, is a good compliment to Congressional scrutiny, but it should not serve as a substitute for action on Capitol Hill.

ACLU Highlights Real-Life Threat of Pentagon Super-Snoop Program to Average Americans (02/05/2003)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today warned against the likely ineffectiveness of and danger to average Americans posed by the vast cyber-surveillance system known as Total Information Awareness.

ACLU Says New Intelligence Umbrella Agency Poses Serious Questions (01/29/2003)
WASHINGTON - In response to President Bush's announcement last night that he will integrate federal intelligence units under one umbrella agency headed by the Central Intelligence Agency, the American Civil Liberties Union today expressed concern that the initiative would put the CIA back in the business of spying on Americans.

ACLU Calls FBI Involvement in Total Information Awareness Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen (01/22/2003)
WASHINGTON - Responding to reports today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation hopes to experiment with the controversial cyber-surveillance program known as Total Information Awareness, the American Civil Liberties Union said that such a partnership between the military and law enforcement would be a privacy disaster waiting to happen.

ACLU Presses for Full Disclosure on Government's New Snoop Powers (01/17/2003)
NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today said it was disappointed but not surprised by the government's meager response to a request for information about the FBI's use of new powers to snoop on innocent citizens and that it may soon return to court to obtain documents the government is withholding.

ACLU Applauds Senate Efforts To Put a Hold On Total Information Awareness (01/16/2003)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded Sen. Russell Feingold's (D-WI) for moving to prohibit the cyber-snooping program known as Total Information Awareness.

"Big Brother" is No Longer a Fiction, ACLU Warns in New Report (01/15/2003)
SAN FRANCISCO - The United States has now reached the point where a total ""surveillance society"" has become a realistic possibility, the American Civil Liberties Union warned in a report being released today.

Citing Free Speech Concerns, ACLU of MA Seeks FBI Records on Campus Surveillance Activities (12/12/2002)
SPRINGFIELD, MA -- Citing concerns about free speech on campus, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts today said that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details on government surveillance of college professors and students nationwide.

ACLU, Justice Department, Agree on Deadline to Release Surveillance Records (11/27/2002)
WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today said that the federal government has agreed to respond by January 15 to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking information on the government's use of extraordinary new surveillance powers.

CO Springs Police Conducted Surveillance for Denver "Spy Files," ACLU Reveals (11/21/2002)
DENVER--The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado today released documents revealing that the Colorado Springs Police department spied on peaceful critics of government policy and sent its information directly to the Denver Police Department for its controversial "spy files."

In First-Ever Ruling, Secret Appeals Court Allows Expanded Government Spying on U.S. Citizens (11/18/2002)
WASHINGTON - Ruling for the first time in its history, the ultra-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review today gave the green light to a Justice Department bid to broadly expand its powers to spy on U.S. citizens.

ACLU Calls on President Bush to Disavow New Cyber-Spying Scheme That Seeks to Put Every American Under Scrutiny (11/14/2002)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today called on President Bush to disavow a new system being developed at the Pentagon that would be able to track every American's activities.

ACLU Asks Court to Order Government to Immediately Account for its Use of Vast New Surveillance Powers (11/13/2002)
NEW YORK-- The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal court to order the Department of Justice to respond immediately to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking information on the government's use of extraordinary new surveillance powers granted to it by Congress last year.

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.

ACLU Asks Court to Order Government to Account for its Use of Vast New Surveillance Powers (10/24/2002)
NEW YORK-The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit asking a federal court to order the Department of Justice to account for its use of the extraordinary new surveillance powers granted to it by Congress last year.

ACLU Seeks Information on Government's Use of Vast New Surveillance Powers (08/21/2002)
NEW YORK- Saying that the American people have a right to know how the government is using its extraordinary new surveillance powers, the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding that the Department of Justice provide information about the pervasiveness of domestic spying.

ACLU Urges CA Police Not to Let Federal Spying Rules Override State Privacy Rights (07/23/2002)
SAN FRANCISCO -- In letters sent today to seven Bay Area police and sheriff's departments, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and several other civil rights groups are urging law enforcement agencies to take immediate steps to ensure that the state constitutional right to privacy is not overridden by intrusive new federal policies on domestic spying. 

ACLU and MN Community Groups Challenge Driver's License Rule That Turns I.D. into "Internal Passport" (07/22/2002)
ST. PAUL-Acting on behalf of individuals and community groups, the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union today challenged new state driver's license restrictions requiring proof of citizenship or ""lawful presence"" in order to obtain a driver's license.