By Daniel Bullard-Bates, Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief

A public school in South Carolina flagrantly violated the Constitution recently by holding a Christian rap concert for students on school property during school hours. While most people would go to great lengths to avoid being… Read full post »

By Allen Hopper, Police Practices Director, ACLU of Northern California

The Golden State has a problem. An addiction problem. California is addicted to incarceration. We've hit rock bottom, and it's time for an intervention. To help the state break… Read full post »

By Catherine Crump, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project

Technology moves so fast today that surveillance programs can now become routine before the public even learns of them. That is a problem because new surveillance programs can involve difficult value judgments and tra… Read full post »

By Catherine Crump, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project

Earlier this month, news broke that the government got a court order to force Twitter to reveal the private account information of some people associated with WikiLeaks. What is unusual about the situation is… Read full post »

By Heather Weaver, Staff Attorney, ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief

"While there was no large-scale communal violence against religious minorities during the reporting period, attacks on . . . Muslims and their places of worship continued, along with incidences of intolerance . . ."

P… Read full post »

By Donna Lieberman, Executive Director, New York Civil Liberties Union, and Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU

"Of course you have the right to build a mosque, but it is insensitive to build it there."

This is the newest version of the call from critics of the proposed Islamic center… Read full post »

By Ian Thompson, Washington Legislative Office

As young people across the country begin to prepare to head back to school with trips to the store for new supplies and clothes, it is a good time to pause and reflect on the discrimination and harassment that… Read full post »

By Natasha Minsker, Death Penalty Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California

Most of the country seems to be getting it: The death penalty is expensive and risky. The expense to execute a prisoner is staggering: in California, the cost of death row housing alone is $90,000 more per… Read full post »

By Jameel Jaffer, Director, ACLU National Security Project

Benjamin  Franklin famously warned that "they who can give up essential liberty to  obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." But  over the last decade, Americans — and others all over the wo… Read full post »