Press Releases
Jul 26, 2018
Amazon Facial Surveillance Technology Falsely Identifies 28 Members of Congress with Mugshots
ACLU Calls for Moratorium on Government Use of Face Surveillance Technology
Jul 25, 2018
Governor Bullock Renews For-Profit Prison Contract with CoreCivic
Helena, Mont. — Governor Bullock today yielded to the private prison industry, extending Montana’s contract with CoreCivic. As a result, 540 Montanans will continue to be wareh...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Jul 25, 2018
ACLU Denounces Committee Vote for Homeland Security Funding
WASHINGTON — The House Committee on Appropriations advanced a bill today that would increase the Department of Homeland Security’s budget for Fiscal Year 2019, a total of $51.4...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Jul 25, 2018
ACLU Endorses Senate Bail Reform Bill
WASHINGTON — The ACLU announced its support of the No Money Bail Act, introduced today by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). This bill serves as the Senate companion to H.R. 1437, the ...
Issue Areas:
Smart Justice
Jul 24, 2018
ACLU Comment on Today’s Family Reunification Court Hearing
SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration today acknowledged it may have deported as many as 463 parents without their children and told a federal judge it still did not have precise...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Court case: Ms. L v. ICE
Jul 19, 2018
Hundreds of ACLU Youth Activists to Demand Trump Reunite Immigrant Families
WHAT:Nearly one thousand high school students from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico will close the third annual American Civil Liberties Union Summer Advocacy Insti...
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New MexicoDec 2025
Voting Rights
United States V. Oliver. Explore Case.United States v. Oliver
The Department of Justice sued New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, demanding the state produce its full, unredacted voter file, which contains highly sensitive and personal data on every voter in the state. This suit appears to be part of the federal government's efforts to build a national voter database without congressional authorization and to improperly question the validity of state voter rolls. -
News & CommentaryJan 2026
Free Speech
How A Covid-era Law Banning ‘fake News’ In Puerto Rico Targets The Press. Explore News & Commentary.How a COVID-era Law Banning ‘Fake News’ in Puerto Rico Targets the Press
Two journalists are challenging a law that threatens press freedom in an attempt to ban misinformation. -
News & CommentaryJan 2026
Privacy & Technology
Free Speech
How To Give The Government New Power To “un-person” Someone, In Three Easy Steps. Explore News & Commentary.How to Give the Government New Power to “Un-Person” Someone, in Three Easy Steps
States That Adopt Digital Driver’s Licenses Need to Rethink How IDs are Revoked -
Washington, D.C.Dec 2025
Civil Liberties
Voting Rights
United States V. Evans. Explore Case.United States v. Evans
Representing Common Cause and two D.C. voters, the ACLU Voting Rights Project and has filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit over the federal government’s demand that D.C. turn over its entire voter registration rolls, including voters’ sensitive personal data such as drivers’ license numbers and partial social security numbers.