COLUMBUS — Today the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit challenging Ohio’s refusal to correct the gender marker on birth certificates for transgender individuals, for any reason, at any time.
CLEVELAND — Today the Cuyahoga County Task Force on Bail, led by Common Pleas Administrative and Presiding Judge John J. Russo, released its recommendations on how to improve the county’s bail system and reduce wealth-based detention due to overreliance on money bail.
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Human Rights First, and Covington & Burling LLP filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s arbitrary detention of asylum seekers fleeing persecution, torture, or death in their co
CINCINNATI — An Ohio court today blocked a law that would criminalize abortions when one of the woman’s reasons for the abortion is a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome. The law, which was signed by Governor Kasich in December 2017, had been scheduled to take effect on March 23, 2018.
COLUMBUS — The ACLU of Ohio believes Substitute House Bill 439, introduced today in the House Criminal Justice Committee by Reps. Dever and Ginter, does not do enough to reduce wealth-based detention of innocent individuals and get people out of Ohio’s overcrowded jails.
COLUMBUS — The ACLU of Ohio released an open letter to school superintendents, principals and teachers across the state today, encouraging officials not to punish students who choose to participate in the scheduled nationwide school walkouts on March 14, 2018.