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Today the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board agreed that a Facebook site posted by a middle schooler is protected speech, and cleared the record of the student who was suspended for two days from Glasgow Middle School.
The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a public records request with Rapides Parish Sheriff Charles F. Wagner, Jr., seeking disclosure of the study and supporting data that some Rapides Parish officials tout as supporting expansion of the Rapides Parish Jail.
Seeking immediate help for a disabled man held since April in inhumane conditions at the Iberia Parish Correctional Center ("ICC"), the ACLU of Louisiana today submitted an emergency second request for relief on his behalf.
The American Civil Liberties Union today submitted a request to Sheriff Marlin Gusman seeking public records documenting the studies he has generated or commissioned that justify his request for more than twice the number of jail beds than was recommended by a national expert using the Sheriff's
Today the ACLU of Louisiana requested records from the Caddo Parish School Board and Walnut Hill Elementary/Middle School, seeking information about handcuffing children at school.
Today the American Civil Liberties Union filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging a federal appeals court to uphold its earlier decision ordering Louisiana to issue a birth certificate with the names of both parents to a boy who was adopted by a gay couple in New York.