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Recent Activity
ACLU Sues NSA to Stop Mass Internet Spying
Wikimedia, Rutherford Institute, Amnesty Among 9 Plaintiffs
Issues: Free Speech Privacy & Technology Safe and Free
Parents and Students to Deliver Postcards to Governor, Urging Restoration of City School Funding
Baltimore City Delegation to Stand with Baltimore Education Coalition
Issues: Education Reform Education Funding Student Achievement Racial Justice Youth Rights
Maryland Coalition for Justice and Equality to hold Press Conference
Groups support police accountability and reform bills
Issues: Racial Justice Police Practices Open Government Due Process Juvenile Justice Criminal Justice
Bill to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Introduced
Bill would make marijuana legal for adults, establish regulations for cultivation and sale
Issues:
DoD Fails to Disclose Info About Gender Disparities in Admissions at Military Service Academies
The lawsuit aims to capture information about the admissions and recruitment policies at military service academies
Issues: Women's Rights
Report Tells Stories of People Given Parole-Eligible Life Sentences Yet Denied Release
ACLU seeks to pass bill to depoliticize the parole process
Issues: Racial Justice Police Practices Due Process
Judge Awards Full Attorneys Fees in Racial Profiling Case
Ruling upholds value of using public information law to hold government accountable
Issues: Racial Justice Police Practices Open Government Criminal Justice
Maryland High Court Agrees to Hear Police Accountability Case
Court to review case concerning access to information about citizen complaints of police misconduct
Issues: Racial Justice Police Practices Open Government
Pregnancy Discrimination Case to be argued before U.S. Supreme Court
No woman should have to choose between her job and a healthy pregnancy
Issues: Disability Rights Women's Rights Reproductive Freedom
ACLU Challenges Use of "Stingray" Surveillance Technology by Baltimore Police
The devices sweep up information about innocent people and criminal suspects alike
Issues: Privacy & Technology Police Practices
ACLU speaks out on President Obama's Immigration Announcements
Executive Action Grants Temporary Reprieve from Deportation and Reforms Immigration Enforcement System
Issues: Immigrants' Rights Racial Justice Police Practices
Education Coalition Urges Action for Critical City School Building Repairs
BEC urges state to continue regular allocation of capital funding
Issues: Education Reform Education Funding School Facilities Student Achievement Racial Justice Youth Rights
Civil Rights Groups Support Family of Victim in Police Killing Case Before Maryland High Court
Excessive damages caps in constitutional rights cases severely undermine the guarantees of the Maryland Constitution
Issues: Racial Justice Police Practices Due Process
Ratner Companies apologizes to stylist Brandon Smith, who was fired by Hair Cuttery after being diagnosed with HIV
Agreement reached to resolve HIV discrimination claim against Hair Cuttery
Issues: LGBT Rights Disability Rights
ACLU Raises First Amendment Concerns about Baltimore County Animal Shelter
Restrictions on taking photos, raising concerns
Issues: Free Speech
Appeals Court Reinstates ACLU Challenge to State Police Secrecy in Racial Slur Case
Police cannot refuse to let the public see records about how they are policing themselves
Issues: Police Practices Open Government
ACLU Demands Justice for Stylist Fired by Hair Cuttery Over HIV Status
Groups asks state licensing agency to clarify regulations
Issues: LGBT Rights Disability Rights
ACLU Applauds Prince George's County for Ceasing to Honor ICE Holds Without a Warrant
Calls on other Maryland counties to reform ICE detainer policies
Issues: Immigrants' Rights Racial Justice Police Practices Due Process
Maryland Decriminalization Bill to Take Effect
Criminal penalties for simple marijuana possession will be replaced with a civil fine similar to a traffic ticket
Issues: Racial Justice Criminal Justice
ACLU Stands Up for Pregnant Workers’ Rights at the Supreme Court
Maryland Passed Law Protecting Pregnant Women Against Workplace Discrimination in 2013
Issues: Women's Rights Reproductive Freedom