Mackinac Center, ACLU officials push for greater government transparency
From MLive.com: Improving local and state government transparency was the driving focus of a Wednesday discussion sponsored by a well-known conservative think tank.read more
View ArticleIn court today: continuing to challenge FBI secrecy on racial and ethnic...
From ACLU: The ACLU and the ACLU of New Jersey are in federal appeals court today in a second challenge to FBI claims of secrecy concerning its troubling nationwide racial and ethnic mapping program....
View ArticleACLU sues Missouri Department of Corrections, alleges Sunshine Law violation
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri is suing the state corrections department, alleging that it ignored the group’s request to view records about the state’s...
View ArticleACLU sues DOJ, demands to know whether suspects were placed under NSA...
From The Daily Caller: The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Department of Justice in regards to whether a criminal suspect was placed under NSA surveillance. On Thursday, the ACLU filed a...
View Article3rd Circuit decision allows FBI to continue to withhold race data from ACLU
From NJ.com: In 2008, the Federal Bureau of Investigation revised its operational guidelines known as the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide. Under the new marching orders, the document...
View ArticleMedia outlets push FISC for info on secret government surveillance
From Courthouse News Service: WASHINGTON (CN) - The once-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has mishandled demands to reveal the government's attempted justifications of its program of...
View ArticleACLU and Center for Popular Democracy file FOIA lawsuit over efforts to limit...
Press release from ACLU: SAN FRANCISCO – The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Popular Democracy today filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to compel the Federal...
View ArticleJudge Denies City of Norfolk’s Request to Dismiss FOIA Lawsuit Brought by the...
ACLU of Virginia lawyers representing People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) presented arguments today in their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the City of Norfolk. The...
View ArticleACLU Asks US Government to Open Records on Drugs Used in Executions
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU) has issued a plea to the US government to open records about the drugs used in executions in the state of Pennsylvania. read more
View ArticleSupport for Spying Kept Secret, Despite Uncle Sam's Bad Faith
Well before Edward Snowden leaked documents about the National Security Administration's massive domestic-surveillance program, the American Civil Liberties Union sought clues through the Freedom of...
View ArticleACLU Seeks Information About Airborne Cell Phone Snooping
The ACLU is filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today for information about a newly revealed Marshals Service program that uses aircraft to suck up location data from tens of thousands...
View ArticleElectronic eavesdropping: NSA reports on its privacy violations
The National Security Agency has a lot to keep track of – all those electronic communications and other signals, mostly innocuous but some of which are critical to national security, collectively...
View ArticleFOIA Documents Reveal Massive DEA Program to Record American’s Whereabouts...
The Drug Enforcement Administration has initiated a massive national license plate reader program with major civil liberties concerns but disclosed very few details, according to new DEA documents...
View ArticleDepartment of Defense Fails to Disclose Information About Gender Disparities...
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Connecticut, and the Service Women’s Action Network filed a lawsuit today against the Department of Defense for failing to release records under the...
View ArticleACLU suit: agencies unlawfully opaque
Three Southern California civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday against two federal agencies, the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection, claiming they are...
View ArticleGroups plan to drop Capitol closure suit
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and a coalition of labor unions plan to drop a lawsuit over the temporary closure of the state Capitol in December 2012 while the Legislature took...
View ArticleACLU documents reveal police use of secret cell phone tracking program
The American Civil Liberties Union has released records it had obtained via Freedom of Information requests from police agencies across the state of Florida, detailing widespread law enforcement use...
View ArticleOpinion: Police want to keep surveillance tech secret
If you use a cellphone and live in one of these 20 states, there’s a decent chance police have spied on you using a secretive mass surveillance tool called a stingray. But good luck finding out....
View ArticleOpen government advocates say probe in Trenton shooting ‘leak’ could hurt...
Open government and journalism advocates said a decision from the New Jersey branch of the American Civil Liberties Union to ask for an investigation into so-called police leaks of a Trenton teen’s...
View ArticlePasadena police union weighs in on body camera policy
The Pasadena Police Officers Association wants the city to use its existing policies related to audio and in-car video recordings when it places body-cameras on its officers next year.read more
View ArticleACLU of Rhode Island report finds numerous violations of Open Meetings Act
Public meeting agendas in Rhode Island are “often vague, lacking critical information, and at times entirely unhelpful” to residents attempting to participate in their government, a new report by the...
View ArticleTechdirt: Senator Wyden Warns That The Justice Department Is Lying To The...
Techdirt: We've been noting for years: when Senator Ron Wyden says that (1) there's a secret interpretation of a law that is at odds with the public's understanding of it, or (2) that government...
View ArticleACLU sues Department of Education over student debt info
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is taking the U.S. Department of Education to federal court in an effort to force the government agency to cough up information about its student...
View ArticleSarasota wins another open government lawsuit
A federal judge has denied the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida's request for records pertaining to the use of StingRay cellphone surveillance devices in the Sarasota area.read more
View ArticleWV: ACLU sends FOIA to investigate Elkins Police 'cockroach memo'
The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia filed the first of a series of Freedom Of Information Act requests Wednesday with the Elkins Police Department to investigate the former police...
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