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ACLU to Kansas school district: Cancel creationist assemblies about dinosaurs
The American Civil Liberties Union has warned a southwest Kansas school district against holding mandatory student assemblies that feature a creationist group. “Teaching or otherwise promoting creationism is, simply put, unlawful,” the ACLU wrote in a letter to Hugoton Public Schools superintendent Mark Crawford on Friday. “As the District is…
FOIA documents suggest IRS may have ignored court ruling on email privacy
A bundle of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request suggests that the nation’s tax collector may have ignored a court ruling in 2010 that ordered it to always obtain a warrant before spying on emails stored on cloud servers, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said…
ACLU accuses Ohio courts of enacting ‘debtors’ prisons’
A report by the American Civil Liberties Union has accused courts in Ohio of jailing indigent defendants for not being able to pay court fines, an apparent revival of the 19th century practice of “debtors’ prisons.” According to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the organization named seven courts in the state in…
ACLU: Email reveals feds misled judges to abuse wiretapping powers
Federal law enforcement agents misled judges for years on what type of wiretaps they were carrying out when they requested permission for so-called “pen register” searches, an email obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reveals. Instead of collecting data on incoming and outgoing callers (among other general information), as…
North Carolina county commissioners sued for insisting upon official public prayers
Three citizens and the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (ACLU) sued the Rowan County Board of Commissioners in North Carolina on Tuesday over the board’s continued insistence on opening meetings with official Christian prayers. The group has been raising the issue since Feb. 15, 2012, when the ACLU…
Federal judge: Public library cannot censor pagan websites
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a public library in Missouri to unblock access to “occult” websites, which included websites about Native American religions and the Wiccan faith. “We are happy to see an end to the library’s discriminatory Internet practices,” Daniel Mach, director of the ACLU Program on Freedom…
Massive ACLU initiative aims to measure police state’s growth
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Wednesday that chapters in 23 states have filed over 255 open records requests pertaining to the militarization of local police departments around the country since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in what the group is calling its most concentrated effort yet to…
ACLU sues Ohio school district over Jesus portrait
The American Civil Liberties Union and Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit against the Jackson City School District in Ohio on Thursday over a portrait of Jesus. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a student at Jackson Middle School and two parents, who objected to having the portrait…
ACLU blasts proposals to ‘militarize’ schools with armed police guards
The American Civil Liberties Union has urged Vice President Joe Biden to reject proposals to avert gun violence by placing armed police guards in schools. “Past experience demonstrates that increasing police presence in schools after a tragedy, while well-intentioned, is misguided,” ACLU senior legislative counsel Deborah J. Vagins said in…
ACLU condemns court for keeping details of Obama’s assassination program secret
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Wednesday that it was saddened by a New York’s judge’s decision to keep secret most details pertaining to an Obama administration program that has so far assassinated three American citizens, including one who was not accused of being involved with terrorism. A Freedom…
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