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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.
Leah Chase, restaurateur and stalwart of the civil rights movement in Louisiana, will be presented the 35th Annual Ben Smith Award by the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana. This award honors people who have demonstrated a commitment to the advancement of civil liberties in Louisiana.
Nationally-recognized journalist James Ridgeway, currently a reporter for Mother Jones Magazine, has been granted access to Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
The American Civil Liberties Union today submitted a request to Sheriff Marlin Gusman seeking public records concerning the resources allocated by FEMA for the proposed expansion of the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP).
The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to determine what resources it has allocated to the proposed expansion of the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP).