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05.26.04
ACLU Rejects Bush Administration Call to Remove Patriot Sunsets
Says President Is Misleading the Public in New TV Ads
Cleveland – The American Civil Liberties Union today urged Congress and the American people to reject the latest call by the Bush administration to extend the USA PATRIOT Act. The ACLU said that the president’s renewed request, which came in new campaign advertising that began airing today, is misleading and ignores strong bi-partisan support for Read more…
National Security
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05.06.04
ACLU of Ohio Demands That Lancaster School System Rescind Punishment for Student Webmaster
Today, the ACLU of Ohio Foundation sent a letter to Lancaster City Schools Interim Superintendent Dora Jean Bumgarner on behalf of the family of Lancaster High School student Thomas Seifert. Seifert has been suspended and is currently in the midst of being expelled by the school system for a website that he created that skewers Read more…
Free Speech
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04.16.04
ACLU of Ohio launches investigation into Ohio Board of Education’s recent adoption of “Critical Analysis of Evolution” Lesson Plan
Read the document request sent to the Board of Education. Read the document request sent to the Department of Education.
Religious Liberty, Student Rights
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03.24.04
The ACLU Seeks to End Oregon’s Exclusion of Gay and Lesbian Couples from Marriage Rights
On March 24, 2004, the ACLU of Oregon filed a lawsuit challenging Oregon law that discriminates against same-sex couples by denying them marriage and the rights and protections that come with it.
LGBT Rights
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03.19.04
Two-Thirds of States Participating in MATRIX Withdraw over Privacy Concerns:
Why is Ohio Still in and Feeding Data to Seisint?
The ACLU of Ohio filed “Freedom of Information” requests regarding the state’s participation in MATRIX with the Ohio Attorney General in October 2003 and February 2004. A response wasn’t received until March 2004, after the Columbus media shined a spotlight on the controversial data-mining project. The small amount of documents that the ACLU of Ohio Read more…
Privacy