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Jan 15, 2015

Sometimes It Only Takes An Hour to Get the Picture: This Single-Sex Program Won't Fly

Sometimes all it takes is a letter and an hour to do the right thing.

After the ACLU learned late last week about a plan to assign ninth-grade students at Lawrence Free State High School in Kansas to...

By By Amy L. Katz, ACLU Women's Rights Project

Sometimes all it takes is a letter and an hour to do the right thing.

After the ACLU learned late last week about a plan to assign ninth-grade students at Lawrence Free State High School in Kansas to...

By By Amy L. Katz, ACLU Women's Rights Project
Jan 13, 2015

Cybersecurity Doesn’t Have to Mean Sacrificing Privacy

Are our work emails, our medical records, and our financial information safe online? Or have we been leaving our digital doors unlocked?

Given the high-profile cybersecurity failures in recent weeks...

By By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

Are our work emails, our medical records, and our financial information safe online? Or have we been leaving our digital doors unlocked?

Given the high-profile cybersecurity failures in recent weeks...

By By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
Jan 13, 2015

Should Officers Be Permitted to View Body Camera Footage Before Writing Their Reports?

Free Speech and Pluralism

Update below

A police officer wearing a body camera shoots a...

By By Peter Bibring, Director of Police Practices for the ACLU of Southern California

Update below

A police officer wearing a body camera shoots a...

By By Peter Bibring, Director of Police Practices for the ACLU of Southern California
Jan 12, 2015

'Transparent' Winning a Golden Globe Is a Big Deal. But It's Also Not Enough

Being transgender can be a lifelong battle against erasure.

We are erased by families who tell us we cannot be who we are; erased by governments who prevent us from obtaining identification that...

By By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU

Being transgender can be a lifelong battle against erasure.

We are erased by families who tell us we cannot be who we are; erased by governments who prevent us from obtaining identification that...

By By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU
Jan 12, 2015

My Name Is Magaly: Community Leader, Homeowner, Taxpayer, and Undocumented Mother

I was 23 years old when I crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with my husband, aunt, and cousin.

Before we came to the United States, we lived in a community in Veracruz. My husband was in the Mexican...

By By Magaly

I was 23 years old when I crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with my husband, aunt, and cousin.

Before we came to the United States, we lived in a community in Veracruz. My husband was in the Mexican...

By By Magaly
Jan 12, 2015

DOJ Solidifies Protection for Transgender Rights

While the American workplace is often notoriously inhospitable to transgender Americans, the federal government last month moved decisively to change that. ...

By By Ian S. Thompson, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

While the American workplace is often notoriously inhospitable to transgender Americans, the federal government last month moved decisively to change that. ...

By By Ian S. Thompson, ACLU Washington Legislative Office