On October 24, 2019 the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania released a report entitled Punishing Poverty: Cash Bail in Allegheny County, an analysis of two years of dockets to examine bail practices in Allegheny County.
October 24, 2019
A report by the ACLU of Pennsylvania illustrates how the General Assembly passes duplicative offenses and harsher penalties in every legislative session.
October 17, 2019
Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America. They are happening in our nation’s K-12 schools. Today, some 51% of all public schools have sworn law enforcement officers, 91% of whom carry firearms.
October 14, 2019
On December 14, 2015, the ACLU of Pennsylvania released a report analyzing civil asset forfeiture practices in Cumberland County that showed law enforcement has kept large amounts of forfeited equipment–even three gaming systems and four video games–for its own internal use, on the grounds that t
February 28, 2019
On October 19, 2015, the ACLU-PA released a new report analyzing civil asset forfeiture in Montgomery County that showed that 53 percent of people facing civil asset forfeiture were African-American, although African-Americans make up only 9 percent of the county's population.
February 28, 2019
On June 2, 2015, the ACLU-PA released a new report documenting the impact of Pennsylvania’s unfair civil asset forfeiture laws and the aggressive enforcement of these laws by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.
February 28, 2019