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Eunice Cho, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project Even

14,000 Oregonians, many elderly and already in poor health, are currently confined in unhygienic, small, and densely populated jail and prison cells. Our justice system can’t afford to stay stagnant in this pandemic. Action now is important for the health of all of us.

Maria Morris, Senior Staff Attorney, National Prison Project, ACLU The

Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project A gr

As the ACLU celebrates its centennial this year, take a look back at the early days of the Oregon branch with our founder, Paul Meyer, 94.

The Department of Homeland Security has a scary vision for expanding face recognition surveillance into our everyday lives, threatening a dystopian future in which the technology is used throughout our public spaces to scrutinize our identity, check us against watchlists, record our movements, and more. Work on building the infrastructure for this pervasive monitoring has already started, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection currently operating a face recognition system at the gates of departing international flights.  

Jennifer Stisa Granick, Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project The

Ayelet Waldman, Author

America made big strides in 2019 on its path to dismantle the racist, unfair, and inhumane death penalty. Today, dramatically fewer states permit the death penalty than any time in the modern era, and the number of people on death row is at a 27-year low.