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NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU issued a letter today to the administration at Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana in response to its Student Pregnancy Policy.
On Friday, July 13, 2012 the ACLU of Louisiana sent an open letter to University of Louisiana at Lafayette President Dr. Joseph Savoie, commending the university on its decision to offer the first LGBT studies minor available to students in Louisiana.
States including Louisiana could save on average more than $66,000 year for each elderly prisoner they needlessly keep behind bars, a new report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union finds.
Today the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal vacated its earlier opinion and ruled that Erroll Houston is entitled to a hearing to secure the return of his firearm, seized and held by the New Orleans Police Department even though no criminal charges have been pursued against him.
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a 21-page letter to Sheriff Marlin Gusman concerning the conditions at the Orleans Parish Prison.
NEW ORLEANS—After a federal court in Baton Rouge ruled that a law banning certain registered sex offenders from using the internet (La. R.S.