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04.29.21
More than 30 Black Leaders and Advocacy Organizations Formally Demand the Department of Justice to Investigate Columbus Police Department’s History of Police Brutality and Misconduct
COLUMBUS, OH – Today, more than 30 advocacy organizations, including The Amos Project, ACLU of Ohio, Columbus NAACP, and Columbus Urban League, announced their formal demand for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Columbus Police Department’s (CPD) history of violence and misconduct targeting Black people. View the formal demand letter here. The coalition’s Read more…
Criminal Justice, Police Practices
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04.22.21
Alarming New Data Shows Over-Policing, Racial Disparities, and Lack of Accountability in Cincinnati Public Schools
CINCINNATI—Today the ACLU of Ohio and Young Activists Coalition-Cincinnati unveiled research showing how School Resource Officers (SROs) administer racially disparate discipline in Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS), perpetuating harm and reinforcing the school-to-prison pipeline. The ACLU of Ohio, Young Activists Coalition-Cincinnati and others call on CPS to implement restorative justice practices which emphasize harm reparation and Read more…
Criminal Justice
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04.20.21
Leader of ACLU of Ohio University’s Campus Chapter Wins Prestigious National Fellowship
ATHENS – Ohio University junior Micaela Beatham-Garcia has been named as a member of the prestigious 2021 Newman Civic Fellowship Cohort. Beatham-Garcia is the Director of the ACLU of Ohio campus chapter and a pre-law associate at the Center for Law, Justice, and Culture. “The ACLU is inspiring to me in its relentless pursuit of Read more…
Criminal Justice
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04.13.21
Federal Court Overturns Lower Court Ruling, Allows Ohio Lawmakers to Punish Doctors for Providing Abortion Care Based on Patient’s Reason
The law punishes doctors with a felony charge for providing an abortion if the doctor knows the patient sought the abortion because of a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis
CINCINNATI – The full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an en banc ruling today, reversing a 2018 district court and a 2019 Sixth Circuit three judge panel decision in Preterm v. McCloud, upholding an Ohio law banning abortion if the doctor performing the procedure learns the patient is obtaining an abortion based on a Read more…
Reproductive Freedom
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04.12.21
ACLU of Ohio and OJPC Sue ODRC for Illegally Garnishing Prisoners’ Emergency Relief Checks in order to Pay Court Fees
COLUMBUS — Today the ACLU of Ohio and the Ohio Justice & Policy Center filed a lawsuit challenging the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s (ODRC) policy of garnishing money from prisoners’ COVID-19 relief funds to pay a fines, fees, costs, and other debts to courts and state agencies. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost issued Read more…
Criminal Justice