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ACLU Launches Nationwide Investigation Into Police Use of Military Technology and Tactics

PHILADELPHIA - The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and ACLU affiliates in 22 other states today simultaneously filed over 255 public records requests to determine the extent to which local police departments are using federally subsidized military technology and tactics that

March 6, 2013

ACLU Demands PA School District Stop Use of Discriminatory Internet Filters

PHILADELPHIA - The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Pennsylvania have sent a letter requesting that school officials at Governor Mifflin School District in Berks County stop using Internet filters that violate students' First Amendment free speech rights.

February 27, 2013

City of Pittsburgh Settles G-20 Case Involving Mass Arrest on University of Pittsburgh Campus

PITTSBURGH - The city of Pittsburgh has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle the claims of 13 people who were swept up in a mass arrest of demonstrators, observers, and passersby in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh hours after the 2009 G-20 Summit ended.

February 14, 2013

Voter ID Trial Scheduled to Start July 15

HARRISBURG, PA - Today Judge Robert Simpson issued an order scheduling the voter ID trial for July 15, 2013, at the Pennsylvania Judicial Center in Harrisburg. The trial is expected to last about a week.

January 22, 2013

ACLU-PA Files First in Series of Lawsuits Over Illegal Arrests for Observing and Recording Philadelphia Police

PHILADELPHIA - The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Christopher Montgomery, a Philadelphia resident who was arrested for using his cellphone to record an arrest. The police also erased the video he had made.

January 16, 2013

ACLU-PA Files Suit On Behalf Of Woman Illegally Detained By ICE

PITTSBURGH - The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Angelica Davila, a U.S. citizen who was born in Mexico and legally immigrated to this country at the age of 2 with her parents.

January 15, 2013