Despite winning a lawsuit earlier this year that found that certain Virginians with felony convictions should not have lost their voting rights, some Virginians missed their chance to vote in congressional primary elections earlier this month. But a new ruling from U.S. District Court Judge John Gibney means that they will be able to vote […]
Flock’s ALPRs, otherwise known as Flock cameras, automatically capture images of passing vehicles and upload them to a database police can search. Law enforcement uses the data to help locate vehicles that may be linked to crimes, missing people or other police matters.Â
A federal courtroom in Concord has once again become the center of a national argument over who is an American citizen. On Aug. 11, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups asked the U.S. District Court in New Hampshire to block President Donald Trump’s latest effort to restrict birthright citizenship. The filing came just […]
Last year, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg reinstated a detention policy for immigrants following complaints from the Trump administration. Since then, the move has led to a dramatic increase in requests to hold immigrants detained so the federal government can assume custody of the people, according to a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky released Thursday.
Black students and those with disabilities are much more likely to be arrested or referred to law enforcement than other students in Iowa schools with school resource officers, an American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa report published Thursday found. School resource officers, or SROs, are sworn law enforcement officers assigned to work at K-12 schools, […]
A nurse said ICE agents attacked her during a Memorial Day melee outside Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall.
A panel of federal judges on Thursday denied an injunction aiming to stop Tennessee’s redrawn congressional map — which splits majority-Black, majority-Democratic Memphis into three U.S. House districts — from going into effect before the August primary election. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of voters, clergy and nonprofits in Memphis […]
The ACLU and National Immigration Law Center have renewed their challenge to a Tennessee law making illegal immigration a state crime after a federal judge dismissed a nearly identical lawsuit last month. In their second lawsuit, filed July 17, the civil right groups are seeking an immediate and permanent halt to legislation that creates a […]
Since the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Rhode Island began tracking remote access to public meetings in 2023, some of the state’s most closed-off public bodies still have not expanded options for people who cannot attend in person, according to an updated ACLU report released Tuesday. The July 2026 edition of “Remote Access to […]
