ACLU Offers Legal Advice on Protecting Privacy of Book Purchases
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is offering free legal advice to booksellers in the state who receive subpoenas or search warrants seeking disclosure of customer purchase records. The...
View ArticleSomali Merchants Finally Receive Compensation for Government Raid
After more than two years of negotiations by the ACLU, two Somali merchants finally are receiving compensation for losses they suffered in a raid by government agents. Abdinasir Ali Nur, owner of the...
View ArticleACLU Stands Up For Photographer at Ballard Locks
The ACLU-WA is assisting Ian Spiers, a biracial community college student who was questioned and detained by local police and a Homeland Security agent for taking photographs at the Ballard Locks. The...
View ArticleACLU to Provide Legal Help to Muslims and Arabs Caught Up in New Round of FBI...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington announced today that it is offering free legal representation to anyone in the state who is approached by the FBI during its latest round of "dragnet"...
View ArticleGovernment Apologizes for Unlawful Arrest and Detention of Iraqi Refugee
Seattle, WA The American Civil Liberties Union today announced that the United States government has apologized to Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb, an Iraqi refugee whom federal agents unlawfully stopped,...
View ArticleM. Akifur Rahman et al. v. Michael Chertoff et al.
Body: A federal court has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI to disclose whether 10 people who have been repeatedly stopped and questioned at border crossings are listed in a...
View ArticleMohamed, et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan
Body: The national ACLU brought suit on behalf of five men who were kidnapped and secretly transferred to U.S.-run prisons or foreign intelligence agencies overseas, where they were interrogated under...
View ArticleLiberty Link
Extraordinary Rendition Case: Former presidential speechwriter Peter Jackson says that Boeing should make amends for its link to a CIA torture case. The ACLU is pursuing the case that seeks...
View ArticleThe King Hearings: McCarthyism 2.0
As we reach almost a decade of anti-Muslim American sentiment in America since 9/11, some in our government continue to perpetuate false stereotypes about the Muslim American community.A case in point:...
View ArticleLiberty Link: Folding on Terror Trials
In a stinging editorial today, the Seattle Times calls out the "wholesale capitulation by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration to contemptuous congressional politics with the...
View ArticleWe Can Be Safe and Free: A 9/11 Anniversary Reminder
Ever since 9/11, the ACLU has taken head-on the misconception that there is a dichotomy between liberty and security. With media coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 ramping up, the ACLU-WA is...
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Mission Creep: The Patriot Act and the War on Drugs
Passed by Congress in the wake of 9/11 with virtually no debate, the Patriot Act this week marked its tenth anniversary. One disturbing consequence of the Act is how it has been used for law...
View ArticleStanding Up Against Injustice: We Honor the Courage of Gordon Hirabayashi
Gordon Hirabayashi, a son of Japanese immigrants, was a senior at University of Washington when bombs fell at Pearl Harbor. Like 112,000 of his fellow Japanese Americans, he would be placed under...
View ArticleACLU of Washington Offers Free Attorneys to People Questioned in Federal...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington announced today that it is offering attorneys to accompany any individuals in the state who are questioned by officials as part of a U.S. Department of...
View ArticleACLU Seeks Compensation for Somali Businessmen
The American Civil Liberties Union today filed claims for compensation with the U.S. Treasury Department on behalf of two Somali businessmen in Seattle. The businessmen seek fair compensation for...
View ArticleAnti-Terrorism Proposals Defeated in State Legislature
Civil libertarians held the line against efforts to enact overly broad laws as the Washington Legislature adjourned without passing proposed anti-terrorism measures. The victory was a tribute to...
View ArticleACLU Urges Release of Hamoui Family
Update: On Aug. 15, 2006, Safouh Hamoui was granted lawful permanent residence (a green card) in the United States. In November of 2004, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Hamoui family...
View ArticleACLU Launches Campaign To Defend The Constitution
As the nation approaches the one-year anniversary of the USA PATRIOT Act, the American Civil Liberties Union today announced a new nationwide effort to recover the freedoms that Attorney General John...
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