In This Issue:
Education in the Crosshairs
A Letter from Executive Director
Nathan Woodliff-Stanley
Marriage Equality Comes to Colorado
ACLU at the Capitol
ACLU in the Courts
ACLU in the Community
Carle Whitehead Dinner Honorees
NATIONAL REPORT
This ACLU research report, “Reckless Lawmaking: How Debt-Based Driver's License Suspension Laws Impose Harm and Waste Resources,” documents the pervasive practice of using driver’s license suspension as a consequence for unpaid fines and fees.
The purpose of this scorecard is to inform our supporters and the general public of where their legislators stand on civil liberties issues. Legislators may promise many things before an election, but there is no substitute for an actual vote.
August 1, 2014 Criminal Legal Reform Student and Youth Rights Reproductive Freedom Government Transparency Voting Rights Women’s RightsIn This Issue:
Making History at the Legislature
A Letter from Executive Director
Nathan Woodliff-Stanley
ACLU at the Capitol
ACLU in the Courts
ACLU in the Community
Immigration Detainers
Carle Whitehead Dinner Honorees
NATIONAL REPORT
Across the country, heavily armed Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams are forcing their way into people’s homes in the middle of the night, often deploying explosive devices such as flashbang grenades to temporarily blind and deafen residents.
NATIONAL REPORT
Today, the United States has just 5% of the world’s population but nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners. But it has not always been this way.