News & Commentary
Aug 30, 2010
Blog post and video with camp residents
Read the blog post and watch the video at Soup Stone Station.
Aug 30, 2010
From the Colorado Springs Gazette: Officers did not violate rights during homeless sweeps
Read Lance Benzel's article about the results of the Colorado Springs Police Department's internal investigation.
Aug 30, 2010
From the Denver Post: ACLU aids inquiry of camp sweeps
Read Alysia Patterson's article about our investigation of the Colorado Springs Police Department.
Aug 30, 2010
Colorado Springs Gazette covers ACLU's investigation
Read Carlyn Ray Mitchell's article about our investigation and legal advocacy around the destruction of private property of the homeless in Colorado Springs.
Aug 27, 2010
ACLU Asks Denver Police Internal Affairs to Re-open Investigation Into Racial Profiling Incident
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.
Aug 24, 2010
New documents confirm that FBI
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.
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