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NEW ORLEANS —As part of its ongoing Immigrant Rights Project (IRP), the ACLU of Louisiana has launched a new monthly blog series that seeks to educate the nation about the hard truths surrounding immigration detention in Louisiana.
LAFAYETTE —The ACLU of Louisiana has released the following statement after a jury found that seven Lafayette Police Department officers did not engage in or fail to intervene in excessive force in their arrest of Mr. Raynaldo Sampy, a Black man who was asleep and pulled from his parked truck
BOSSIER CITY, LA—Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana have filed a criminal appeal on behalf of their client Anthony Monroe, after Mr. Monroe was convicted of battery of a police officer and resisting an officer. The appeal, filed on November 17,
NEW ORLEANS —The ACLU of Louisiana has released the following statement after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a First Amendment violation claim brought against a St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy by Teliah Perkins, a Black woman from Slidell who was violently arrested at her own
NEW ORLEANS—The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana announced today the first payments of a Guaranteed Monthly Income (GMI) program that will provide financial support to individuals and families whose lives have been significantly impacted by racist policing, mass incarceration, and the
NEW ORLEANS —The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Shreveport resident Gregory James Bledsoe, who brought malicious prosecution claims against Dean Willis and David McClure, members of the Shreveport Police Department, based on an alleged wrongful arrest without probable cause