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This Secret Domestic Surveillance Program Is About to Get Pulled Out of the Shadows
The federal government will have to produce information on a vast and secret domestic surveillance program and defend the program's legality in open court. That's the result of a decision issued Friday by the federal judge presiding over our lawsuit challenging the Suspicious Activity Reporting program, part of an ever-expanding domestic surveillance network established after 9/11.
By By Julia Harumi Mass, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California
A Most Unsurprising Riot
Originally posted on The Marshall Project.
By Carl Takei, ACLU National Prison Project
The Cost of Imprisoning America's Poor
731,000
By By Marshall Thomas, ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project
How Does the Federal Government Handle Prosecutions of Police Officers?
Should we take the Department of Justice's word on how federal prosecutions of police officers are being conducted and resolved, or do we need to see the data?
By By Jamil Dakwar, Director, ACLU Human Rights Program
Chelsea Manning Fights for Her Right to Exist. She Shouldn't Have To
We shouldn't have to keep defending our right to exist.
By By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU
Fired for Being Trans
The day I got my driver's license with the gender marked "F" and my new legal name was one of the best days of my life. I was assigned male at birth, and my parents named me Steven. But I'd known for many years that I am a woman, and now I had the identification to prove it.
By By Patricia Dawson
ACLU-Obtained Documents Reveal Breadth of Secretive Stingray Use in Florida
The ACLU is releasing records today obtained from law enforcement agencies across Florida about their acquisition and use of sophisticated cell phone location tracking devices known as “Stingrays.” These records provide the most detailed account to date of how law enforcement agencies across a single state are relying on the technology. (The full records are available here.)
By By Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
Not One More
Her name was Lamia Beard. She was from Virginia.
By By Amanda Goad, LGBT Project
Shouldn't You Be Able To See the Secret Surveillance Orders That Could Put You in Prison?
The Supreme Court is set to decide tomorrow whether it will hear a case concerning criminal defendants' right to see surveillance applications approved by the secret FISA court. The case, United States v. Daoud, has broad implications for the constitutional rights of all Americans.
By By Ashley Gorski, Nadine Strossen Fellow, National Security Project, ACLU
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