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Voting Rights Advocates Praise Wolf Administration’s Move to Offer Online Voter Registration

PHILADELPHIA – Leading voting rights advocates thanked Secretary of State Pedro Cortes and the Wolf Administration for offering eligible Pennsylvanians the opportunity to go online to update or complete their voter registration forms.

August 27, 2015

ACLU of PA Calls State Senate Bill to Expand DNA Collection “Big Government on Steroids”

HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Senate today passed legislation to expand DNA collection without a search warrant to include people who have been arrested but not convicted of a crime. The bill’s passage marks the third consecutive session that a similar proposal has passed the Senate.

July 14, 2015

Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Inmate Denied Ability to Marry

PITTSBURGH – The ACLU of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project filed a lawsuit today on behalf of an inmate whose attempts to get married have been thwarted by both the Fayette County Register of Wills and the State Correctional Institute (SCI) in Fayette.

July 13, 2015

ACLU of PA Applauds Governor’s Approval of Police Training Bill

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf today approved legislation to require police training on mental health, intellectual disability, and autism. The new law earned praise from the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania as a step forward for fair policing.

July 10, 2015

Butler County Homeowners and Parents of Mars Students Warn Developer and Gas Leaseholders To Withdraw Lawsuit Over Fracking or Face Sanctions

PITTSBURGH - The ACLU of Pennsylvania has sent a letter to a Butler County developer and its co-plaintiffs demanding that they drop their lawsuit against five Middlesex Township residents and two nonprofit organizations, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Clean Air Council, who oppose a local p

July 8, 2015

ACLU of PA Statement on Marriage Equality Decision

PHILADELPHIA – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which found that the federal Constitution protects same-sex couples’ freedom to marry in all fifty States, D.C., and the U.S. territories.

June 26, 2015