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ACLU 2024 Annual Report
The ACLU鈥檚 2024 annual report highlights how the organization worked around the clock this year to safeguard voting rights ahead of the November elections, protect bodily autonomy, defend free speech, and much more. Alongside breakdowns of the ACLU鈥檚 key wins and efforts throughout 2024, the report tells the stories of ACLU activists, advocates, and clients who are on the front lines of this fight.
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License to Abuse: How ICE鈥檚 287(g) Program Empowers Racist Sheriffs
This ACLU research report, License to Abuse: How ICE鈥檚 287(g) Program Empowers Racist Sheriffs and Civil Rights Violations, examines the records of sheriff offices and other law enforcement agencies that participate in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) 287(g) program. This comprehensive review revealed that racial profiling, poor jail conditions and other civil rights violations are widespread among the 142 state and local law enforcement agencies ICE describes as participants in the 287(g) program as of April 2022. With strong recommendations for federal, state and local governments, this report investigates the unjust impacts of the 287(g) program and ways for the government to remedy the harm.
ACLU 2021 Annual Report
The ACLU's 2021 annual report shares how the organization fought back against this year's barrage of state legislation aimed at suppressing the vote, banning abortion, restricting transgender rights, and more. The report celebrates major victories, including the ACLU's Supreme Court win protecting the free speech rights of 50 million public school students, and reflects on key moments throughout the organization's history, such as Tinker v. Des Moines鈥攖he landmark student speech case that set the precedent for this year's win. There are also inspiring stories of families within the ACLU community who are empowering the next generation of activists.
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Report: Behind Closed Doors: Abuse & Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention
Behind Closed Doors: Abuse & Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention, a new research report from ACLU and PHR (Physicians for Human Rights), provides an in-depth, nationwide examination of what happens to people who engage in hunger strikes while detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Findings are based on an assessment of over 10,000 documents obtained through FOIAs, a review of ICE current policies, and interviews of formerly detained people who engaged in hunger strikes. The report covers during both Obama and Trump administrations and identifies over 1,000 hunger strikers across 24 states. It concludes with actionable recommendations for federal and state governments and medical professionals.
Reckless Lawmaking: How Debt-Based Driver's License Suspension Laws Impose Harm and Waste Resources
This ACLU research report, 鈥淩eckless Lawmaking: How Debt-Based Driver's License Suspension Laws Impose Harm and Waste Resources,鈥� documents the pervasive practice of using driver鈥檚 license suspension as a consequence for unpaid fines and fees.
Through policy analysis and individual interviews with those who had their license suspended, this report provides an in-depth examination of this common practice of debt-based suspensions and demonstrates how court ordered monetary obligations, or 鈥渇ines and fees,鈥� are inextricably linked to over-policing, criminalization, and mass incarceration. It provides detailed recommendations for policymakers and DMVs, calls for lawmakers to more accurately consider the value of continuing to fund government services through predatory fines and fees in light of the consequent harm, and proposes concrete policy reforms for states and municipalities.
ACLU Annual Report 2020
The ACLU's 2020 Annual Report provides highlights of the organization's litigation and advocacy work as it responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic across civil liberties issues, demanded justice for Black lives in the wake of an epidemic of police violence, and fought tirelessly to safeguard access to the ballot in the critical 2020 elections. The report also includes a reflection on the ACLU's first century as it celebrates its centennial year, alongside a tribute to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who founded the ACLU's Women's Rights Project in 1972.
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ACLU Magazine
Published twice a year, ACLU Magazine shares updates on the ACLU's critical litigation and advocacy work across the country and tells the stories of the activists, attorneys, and clients at the heart of each case and campaign. To receive ACLU Magazine by mail, become a monthly donor today.
