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Suing to Defend Americans' Right to Take Pictures in Public
What does an 86-year-old art photographer have in common with a young man with a video game habit?
By By Julia Harumi Mass, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California
Big Data and Big Money
Out for a run the other day along a stretch on a busy road, I saw a "for sale" sign on a house. That got me to wondering about the downsides of living on a busy road, and further wondering: do people who live on busy roads stay in their houses for shorter periods of time than people on quiet streets? Is real estate turnover higher on busy roads?
By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
What’s the Government Doing Targeting Civil Rights Leaders?
The NSA and FBI are targeting prominent American Muslims, including civil rights activists, academics, and a former government official, we learned in a troubling report released last night.
By By Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office & Sandra Fulton, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
The Hobby Lobby Stages of Grief: Stage 2, Anger
Have you recovered from last week’s brutal Hobby Lobby opinion yet? I haven’t. According to the Kübler-Ross model of grief, I am still only at stage 2: anger.
By By Elayne Weiss, Washington Legislative Office
U.N. to Confront United States on Persistent Racial Discrimination
Imagine the government taking away your two children in a hearing that lasts less than 60 seconds.
By By Chandra Bhatnagar, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Human Rights Program
Children Shouldn’t Be Left Alone in Immigration Court
Eleven-year-old Luisa was too young to apply on her own for a visa to come from Guatemala to the United States where she hoped to be reunited with her mother. But since federal immigration authorities detained her last year in Texas, Luisa has learned that she is apparently not too young to act as her own lawyer as federal immigration officials move to deport her back to her native Guatemala.
By By Sandra Hernandez, ACLU of Southern California
America Should Always Be a Refuge From Violence
This past weekend's Fourth of July holiday made me nostalgic for the Independence Day celebrations of my childhood.
By By Layla Razavi, Regional Advocacy and Policy Counsel, ACLU
What the Bears’ Brandon Marshall’s Struggles With Mental Illness Teach Us About the Criminal Justice System
In a recent article in ESPN the Magazine, Chicago Bears All-Pro Wide Receiver Brandon Marshall admitted that in 2011 he was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder.
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By By Ajmel Quereshi, Staff Counsel, ACLU
Investigating the Imaginary Thought Police
Earlier this year, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, abruptly abandoned a survey of Americans’ media information needs, which, despite its modest scope, would have provided crucial data for the FCC in its efforts to maintain viewpoint diversity in our increasingly concentrated media markets.
By By Sarah Harrison, Washington Legislative Office
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