For years, various groups organized around and lobbied against the Chief Wahoo image and the Indians name used by Cleveland’s baseball team, arguing that both were racist and morally offensive.
At...
In Re Cincinnati Policing sought to address a long history of racial profiling by Cincinnati police between 1995 and 2001. The ACLU of Ohio partnered with the Cincinnati Black United Front to file...
On July 24, 2002, the U. S. House of Representatives voted to expel James A. Traficant, representative for Ohio’s Seventeenth District, after he was convicted of racketeering, bribery and fraud. When a U.S...
In 1995, the state of Ohio adopted a controversial school voucher program that enabled children in certain troubled districts to receive scholarships to attend private or parochial schools. The program...
In 1999, the ACLU of Ohio challenged an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction policy preventing death-row inmates from speaking their “last words.” Under the policy, prisoners had to write down...