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  • 08.09.05

    ACLU Rejects United Way Funding, Cites Concern for Due Process, Free Speech

    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. “These lists have been shown to be inaccurate and unreliable and they provide no means for those Read more…

    National Security

  • 07.11.05

    ACLU Urges Library Board to Protect Free Speech

    UPPER ARLINGTON – Today, the ACLU of Ohio sent a letter to the Upper Arlington Library Board of Directors urging the library to continue to make available publications such as Gay People’s Chronicle and Outlook Weekly. The letter comes after a handful of citizens led an effort to ban the periodicals from the library because Read more…

    Free Speech

  • 06.13.05

    Supreme Court’s Decision Upholds Prisoners’ Due Process Protections, But Limits Their Reach

    WASHINGTON, DC-The American Civil Liberties Union applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today that the extreme deprivation and punishment found in “supermax” prisons warrant protections for prisoners’ due process rights, while expressing disappoint that more extensive protections were rejected. “Prisoners confined in supermax facilities endure 24-hour isolation, limited access to rehabilitative programming, and few opportunities Read more…

    Prisoners' Rights

  • 06.08.05

    Ohio Critical State in Push for USA Patriot Act Reform

    ACLU Calls on Congress to Fix Act

    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. The USA PATRIOT Act was passed into Read more…

    National Security

  • 05.17.05

    ACLU to Lorain Commissioners: “Meetings Must Be Public”

    ELYRIA – The ACLU of Ohio Foundation demanded today that the Lorain County Commissioners correct their decision to meet in private to discuss the takeover of a local airport. The ACLU sent a letter to the commissioners and the Assistant Lorain County Prosecutor after the commissioners retired to executive session to discuss taking over Lorain Read more…

    Open Government