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Where do the GOP Candidates Stand on Drug Policy? Why Now is the Time to Know

Ryan Devereaux, The Guardian. January 25, 2012.

The battle for the Republican nomination has moved to Florida, which also happens to be a key battleground in an entirely different fight: the $15bn war on drugs.

Is Fighting Corporate Corruption a Crack in the Supreme Court's Citizens United Ruling?

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. January 24, 2012.

Montana ACLU backed a corporate campaign spending ban. National ACLU did not.

Obama Administration Continues to Abuse State Secrets Privilege to Cover Up Misdeeds

Nancy Goldstein, Comment Is Free. December 11, 2011.

The State Department response to the ACLU's FOIA requests for WikiLeaks' cables reveals the absurd abuses of state secrecy.

Unjust Termination? How Supporting Marijuana Decriminalization Got One Cop Fired

Eric W. Dolan, Raw Story. November 28, 2011.

Joe Miller worked as a probation officer for nearly three years before he was fired for adding his name to a Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) letter.

Police Being Sued for Violent Crackdown on Occupy Oakland

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 15, 2011.

The suit is an attempt to compel Oakland police to follow their own crowd control guidelines.

Why Is the Oakland Police Department Hiding the Truth About Its Violent Crackdown on the Occupy Protests?

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 9, 2011.

Oakland police appear to have violated their own guidelines, and now they're refusing to release documents to civil rights attorneys as required by law.

Racial Profiling on an “Industrial Scale”: FBI Using Census Data to Map and Police Communities By Race

Justin Elliott, Salon. October 24, 2011.

The ACLU uncovers an FBI program that pairs Census data with "crude stereotypes" to map ethnic communities.

3 Months in Juvie For a MySpace Joke? How the For-Profit Prison Industry Locks Up More People Each Year

Willam Fisher, TruthOut.org. July 6, 2011.

Private prisons are marked by corruption, expense, abuses--and yet their reach is vast, and it's growing.

Is Your Mobile Phone Transmitting Your Private Information to Corporations?

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. June 3, 2011.

Our mobile phones and computers are storing and sharing more and more personal information--but do we have control over who sees it?

Secret Experimental Prisons Subject Inmates to Drastic Isolation

Alia Malek, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. March 16, 2011.

Inmates at secret prisons inside the U.S. are prohibited from having virtually any contact with the outside world.

ACLU Calls on DEA to Allow Sale of Medical Marijuana

Stephen C. Webster, Raw Story. March 9, 2011.

The ACLU has released a brief calling on the DEA to grant research permits for the production of medical cannabis.

White House Drafts Executive Order for Indefinite Detention

Dafna Linzer, ProPublica. December 21, 2010.

Nearly two years after Obama's pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo, more inmates there are formally facing the prospect of lifelong detention.

ACLU Report: Obama Enshrining Bush-Era Torture Policies

Deborah Weinstein, TruthOut.org. August 11, 2010.

Fear of an unchecked, unaccountable government permeates the report, particularly in the section about targeted killings.

California Storing DNA of Innocent People

Michael Risher, AlterNet. July 30, 2010.

California’s law mandating that DNA samples be taken from all felony arrestees is facing a legal challenge from the ACLU of Northern California.

7 Outrageous Examples of Police Spying and Harrassment Toward Peaceful Activists

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. July 3, 2010.

Law enforcement is using dubious justifications to spy on Americans based on nothing more than people's political beliefs.

Judge Orders Man Once Labeled "Highest-Value Detainee" Released From Gitmo

Willam Fisher, IPS News. April 13, 2010.

After nine years in captivity, including physical and psychological torture, Mohamedou Ould Salahi has been ordered released by Federal District Judge James Robertson.

The FBI Could Be Watching You on Facebook

Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. March 18, 2010.

Social-networking sites have driven a seemingly insatiable need to share all sorts of information about ourselves in a very public way -- and law enforcement has caught on.

Utah Governor Signs Controversial Law Charging Women and Girls With Murder for Miscarriages

Rose Aguilar, AlterNet. March 9, 2010.

Critics are worried the law will open up a Pandora's box of unintended legal consequences.

Why the ACLU Supported the Supreme Court's Shocking Assault on Free Speech

Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. January 27, 2010.

The Supreme Court's atrocious Citizen's United green light for unlimited corporate campaign spending had a willing accomplice -- the American Civil Liberties Union.

Four More Gitmo Prisoners Released, But Obama Has Dark Plans For Many Who Remain

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. January 26, 2010.

The Obama administration has selected some 50 Guantanamo prisoners to be held indefinitely, without charge or trial.

Arab Americans Call Extra Airport Security Measures 'Unconstitutional'

Esther M. Gentile, New America Media. January 22, 2010.

According to lawyers from the ACLU, the techniques are intrusive and ineffectual -- tantamount to racial profiling.

Christmas Bomb Plot May Mean No Release For Yemeni Prisoners at Gitmo Anytime Soon

Christmas Bomb Plot May Mean No Release For Yemeni Prisoners at Gitmo Anytime Soon

Willam Fisher, IPS News. January 5, 2010.

Legal experts and human rights advocates are pushing back against calls from politicians to halt the planned release of prisoners from Guantanamo to their home country.

Would Supporters of Full Body Scanners at Airports Also Favor Body Cavity Searches?

Jay Stanley, Blog of Rights AlterNet: PEEK. January 4, 2010.

The logic of those pushing for body scanners for all airline passengers leads to the inescapable conclusion that they would support such a policy.

Politicians Are Portraying 'Gitmo North' as a Terrific Local Jobs Program -- Don't Count On It

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. December 17, 2009.

Politicians' claim that moving detainees to Illinois will create 3,000 jobs is a distraction from an ugly reality; Gitmo is not being closed, it is being moved onto U.S. soil.

The ACLU Needs Your Help

Suzanne Ito, Blog of Rights AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 14, 2009.

Tough financial times that have befallen us here at the ACLU. Here's what you can do.

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