News & Commentary

Administrators at Monarch High School are committing felonies under Colorado law and violating students’ privacy by seizing students’ cell phones, reading their text messages, and making transcriptions to place in students’ permanent files, according to a letter sent today by the ACLU of Colorado to the Boulder Valley School District Board of Education.

Read the blog post and watch the video at Soup Stone Station.

Read Lance Benzel's article about the results of the Colorado Springs Police Department's internal investigation.

Read Alysia Patterson's article about our investigation of the Colorado Springs Police Department.

Read Carlyn Ray Mitchell's article about our investigation and legal advocacy around the destruction of private property of the homeless in Colorado Springs.

Today the ACLU of Colorado asked the Denver Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau to re-open its investigation into two African-American citizens’ complaints of racial profiling arising from a traffic stop on February 13, 2009.

Releasing new documents obtained from the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Legal Director of the Colorado ACLU, Mark Silverstein, said today that the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) wastes resources and threatens First Amendment rights by wrongfully equating nonviolent protest with domestic terrorism.

Read the full post at www.aclu.org.

Read the article by Tim Hoover.