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DC Police’s Inauguration Day Arrests May Have Violated Rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2017
CONTACT: 202-270-8488, [email protected]

January 27, 2017

ACLU-DC Partners with Law 4 Black Lives and Others to Prepare Protesters for Inauguration Demonstrations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 11, 2017 CONTACT: 202-270-8488, [email protected]

ACLU-DC Partners with Law 4 Black Lives and Others to

Prepare Protesters for Inauguration Demonstrations

January 11, 2017

ACLU Demands DC Lift Ban Against Public-Housing Activist

Empower DC’s Schyla Pondexter-Moore, critic of DC housing policy, was banned from all Housing Authority meetings for 60 days; ACLU charges First Amendment violation.

November 3, 2016

DC Joins Nationwide Community Control Over Police Surveillance Effort

The American Civil Liberties Union and local officials in DC announced today that they are launching efforts to bring greater transparency to the acquisition and use of local police surveillance technologies.

September 21, 2016

ACLU Releases Report on DCPS's “Empowering Males of Color” Initiative

Report finds no justification for single-sex educational programs.

May 9, 2016

ACLU RELEASES REPORT ON DCPS’s “EMPOWERING MALES OF COLOR INITIATIVE”

Press Release For: Monday, May 9, 2016, at 2:00 PM

ACLU RELEASES REPORT ON DCPS’s “EMPOWERING MALES OF COLOR INITIATIVE”

May 9, 2016