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Commentary: The child welfare system needs an overhaul

When I graduated from nursing school five years ago, I worked for an agency in New York City’s foster care system. I believed I was helping families. But what I saw there was not a system working for children’s best interests, but one that was quick to separate children from…

Tribune News Service · Dec 2, 2022

Landmark trial on Arkansas trans youth medical ban wraps up

The nation's first trial over a ban on gender-confirming care for children has ended and is now in the hands of a federal judge

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2022

Teenager, 19, demands to be allowed to watch her dad be executed with lethal injection

Corionsa Ramey, 19, has applied to the federal court in Kansas asking for permission to watch her father Kevin Johnson be executed over the murder of a police officer in 2005

Daily Mirror · Nov 22, 2022

ACLU urges end to some local immigration enforcement deals

WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union urged federal immigration authorities on Tuesday to end dozens of cooperation agreements with local law enforcement agencies that the group identified as having the worst records of civil rights violations, bad jails or prisons and other factors.

Tribune News Service · Aug 9, 2022

Anita Chabria: These families are flaming the ACLU as California debates mental health care

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bob Britton doesn't look like the kind of guy to be cursing out the American Civil Liberties Union, but there he was outside the state Capitol this week, offering up some choice four-letter words for the civil rights organization.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 5, 2022

Latest news: US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade

US abortion news from June 24: Joe Biden condemns top court decision overturning nearly 50 years of abortion rights.

Al Jazeera · Jun 24, 2022

US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance

New report by American Civil Liberties Union says incarcerated laborers are either poorly compensated or not at all

The Guardian - US · Jun 15, 2022

3 old-school institutions helped make the internet firestorm around the Depp-Heard trial

There's a theory of awful internet behavior that goes like this: Sometimes social media is great for helping people connect, bringing new voices into the public sphere and exposing injustices of what we used to call "in real life." But sometimes the internet takes existing social forces and amplifies them…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 3, 2022

Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard: Ahead of verdict; petition to remove Amber Heard as ACLU ambassador of women's rights receives 80,000 signatures

As people around the world wait for the jury to announce their verdict on the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard case, some on the internet have begun campaigning for the actress to be removed as a women’s rights ambassador for American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The Times of India · Jun 1, 2022

Remembering Urvashi Vaid, an LGBTQ activist who spent decades fighting for equality

Colleagues, friends and admirers are paying tribute to Vaid, the pioneering attorney and organizer who died at age 63 on Friday. She worked for the ACLU and National LGBTQ Task Force, among others.

WEKU · May 18, 2022