COLUMBUS– Yesterday, in the final hours before the holiday recess, the Ohio General Assembly voted to pass the Ohio Patriot Act. The bill has come under intense criticism from civil liberties groups, immigrant rights advocates, and conservative organizations.
CLEVELAND— The ACLU of Ohio announced today that it would no longer accept funding from the United Way amid concerns that the organization would be forced to monitor whether its employees were placed on government terror watch lists.
COLUMBUS – Today, the ACLU of Ohio announced its participation in a nationwide push to reform the USA PATRIOT Act. The ACLU, along with a growing coalition of both conservative and progressive groups, says that it wants the controversial act to be brought into line with U.S. Constitution.
CLEVELAND – Today, the ACLU of Ohio sent a letter to Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro demanding that he withdraw the state from all data-mining programs. On Friday, April 15, federal funding was ended for the controversial and invasive Multistate
CINCINNATI – The ACLU of Ohio recently filed an amicus brief with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of USA v. Damra.
From June 3, 2004 through June 25, 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union will air thirty-second television ads on cable television in the Cleveland, Columbus, Lima, Youngstown and Zanesville markets featuring schoolchildren who question the government’s restrictions of basic freedoms in the na