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Man arrested for flipping off a trooper gets $175,000 after First Amendment lawsuit

The driver said he can use the settlement money to take his ‘88-year-old mother out for a nice dinner’

The Independent UK

ACLU asks judge to hold LA sheriff and county supervisors in contempt over jail conditions

LOS ANGELES — The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Monday to find Los Angeles County, the Board of Supervisors and Sheriff Robert Luna in contempt of court for failing to fix "appalling" conditions in the local lockups.

Los Angeles Times

Biden unveils Trump-style plan to deter asylum seekers at Mexico border

Administration’s most aggressive plan yet would bar most migrants who hadn’t sought protection in other countries first

The Guardian - US

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Women Who Take Abortion Pills Could Face Criminal Charges, Alabama Attorney General Says

Plus: Lawsuit challenges ban on scraping court records, state marijuana convictions lead to longer federal sentences, and more...

Reason

Students Taking Back ‘Ownership’ of Education

“We defended these books, which remained in the library ... We saw book banning slow down, and that was really phenomenal to see.”

Texas Observer

Cronyist Journalism Measure Could Prompt Facebook To Ban News

Plus: ACLU sides against religious freedom, abortions after Dobbs, and more...

Reason

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…

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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

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

Four states voted to end slavery as a form of criminal punishment. Here’s why Louisiana voters didn’t

A renewed abolitionist movement closed 13th Amendment ‘loopholes’ that allow slavery as punishment for a crime. But a confusingly worded amendment to Louisiana’s constitution sparked fears that the measure could do the opposite of what it intended, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

Sheryl Sandberg steps into abortion fight with ACLU donation

Sheryl Sandberg opened her next chapter as a full-time philanthropist Tuesday with a donation to the American Civil Liberties Union to fight state abortion bans across the country

The Independent UK

ACLU sues over Arizona law limiting filming of police

A controversial Arizona law restricting how the public can film police is facing its first legal challenge with a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union

The Independent UK

Providers bring battle against 15-week abortion ban to Florida Supreme Court

ORLANDO, Fla. — Pro-reproductive rights organizations including Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday took their challenge of Florida’s 15-week abortion ban to the Florida Supreme Court, asking the court to hear their argument and block the law.

Orlando Sentinel

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.

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Los Angeles Times

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.

Al Jazeera

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.

The Guardian - US

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

Los Angeles Times

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…

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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.

Benzinga

Privacy Activists Caution Against Zoom's Latest Tool

Activists have warned against Zoom Video Communications, Inc's (NASDAQ:ZM) analyzing emotion and engagement feature of triggering bias and violating personal privacy, Bloomberg reports. Zoom introduced Zoom IQ, a post-call analysis of speaker sentiment powered by artificial intelligence for salespeople. Zoom IQ offered metrics like engagement or patience to improve future communication and deal-making.…

The Guardian - US

ACLU helped draft article at heart of Depp v Heard case for $3.5m donation, court hears

American Civil Liberties Union’s general counsel testifies that at least $500,000 came from fund connected to Elon Musk

Chicago Sun-Times

CPD’s growing use of cameras that read license plates leads to worries about data misuse

“The numbers of licenses scanned demonstrates the broad reach to surveil and see where someone is,” a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union said about the 200 million plates logged last year. “It’s a lot of power.”

Reason

Welcome to the Nicotine Prohibition Era

Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there's new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.

Roll Call

Appeals court: US can’t send migrant families to danger, but can expel them without hearing - Roll Call

A lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union said the ruling was a "huge victory" for those fleeing torture.

The Independent UK

Judge considers blocking Texas policy of investigating medical care for trans children as ‘child abuse’

The new policy has ‘caused terror and anxiety among transgender youth and their families across the Lone Star State,’ says the American Civil Liberties Union

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