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City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.

ACLU class-action lawsuit urges state of Colorado to release children from jails to community-based settings while awaiting decisions in their juvenile delinquency cases. Kids with disabilities and foster children are particularly vulnerable.

Spring is a season of growth and forward movement! Explore our April newsletter for ways you can take action to support immigrants on May Day, updates to our legal work protecting the rights of protesters and journalists, our staff's participation in a rural organizing caucus, and for a handy Freedom Pledge voter guide for the May 19 election.

Immigration arrests have upended life in Minnesota as citizens detail unlawful and violent interactions with ICE in court testimonies as part of an ACLU lawsuit against the Trump administration.

The ACLU is at the Supreme Court for oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara. Follow live coverage of the fight to defend birthright citizenship.

Amid rampant abuse by federal agents, state legislatures can pass critical laws that allow people to take federal agents to court for violating their rights.

Mason Lake, a client and class representative in this case, is a born and raised Portlander and a lover of history. With a career in photography that dates back to his high school years, Mason now feels compelled as a freelance photographer to contribute to the accurate depiction of history as it is happening through “boots on the ground” journalism and presence at the protests outside the ICE building.

Legislation includes a “duty of loyalty” of participants in an ID system to individuals

Follow for live coverage of the nationwide peaceful protests to condemn President Trump's escalating abuses of power.