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Eight killed in crash involving suspected people smuggling gang

Fatalities happened when a car being used for suspected human smuggling crashed trying to evade police

The Independent UK

Maryland officials approve settlement to reform autopsy process after teen's 2018 in-custody death

Maryland officials have approved a settlement that includes reforms to the state medical examiner’s process for conducting autopsies on people killed in police custody

The Independent UK

Biden's excutive order on AI explained

Programs like ChatGPT are largely unregulated. The Biden Admin is attempting to change that but will it work?

Salon

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ACLU sues South Dakota over its vanity plate restrictions

The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota is suing the state of South Dakota over a law that restricts content on vanity plates

The Independent UK

S. Ct. Will Hear NRA's Case Alleging That N.Y. Government Coerced Companies to Stop Doing Business with NRA

The controversy is similar to part of the controversy in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden), which also involves allegations of government coercion aimed at interfering with speech.

Reason

"Can a Public Official Block You on Social Media?," with Prof. Jeff Rosen, Prof. David Cole, and Me

Jeff Rosen is the head of the National Constitution Center; David Cole is the National Legal Director of the ACLU; we discuss the Supreme Court's cases on the subject, which were argued Tuesday.

Reason

US rights group urges colleges to protect free speech amid Israel-Gaza war

ACLU rejects calls for investigating Palestine solidarity student organisations, saying probes would ‘chill speech’.

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ACLU and families of trans teens ask Supreme Court to block Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care

Attorneys representing Tennessee transgender children, teens and their families have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a ban on gender-affirming care for children and teenagers that a lower court allowed to go into effect

The Independent UK

Siding with Trump, the ACLU says a judge's gag order in Jan. 6 case is too sweeping

The ACLU says a judge's gag order against former President Trump restricts too much of his speech on matters of public importance.

WEKU

ACLU sides with Trump against gag order given in federal criminal case

Liberal human rights group says order given by federal judge is overly broad and deprives Trump of his free speech rights

The Guardian - US

Settlement over Trump family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years

If approved by a judge, the settlement would bar the ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on illegal immigration under which the Trump administration separated thousands of families.

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. government agrees to settlement with migrant families separated at the border

The deal, which a federal judge must approve, bars immigration officials from imposing a blanket policy of family separation for the next eight years. It does not provide any monetary compensation.

WEKU

Settlement over Trump family separations at the border seeks to limit future separations for 8 years

There’s a settlement in a long-running lawsuit over the Trump administration’s separation of parents and their children at the southern border

The Independent UK

US prisoners who did not consent to ivermectin Covid treatment win payout

Prisoners in Arkansas settle lawsuit for $2,000 each after accusing Washington county detention center of ‘medical experimentation’

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Schools Are Normalizing Intrusive Surveillance

Kids will grow up to value freedom only if they’re raised in an environment where it’s treated as good.

The Guardian - US

School surveillance tech does more harm than good, ACLU report finds

US student safety not improved by surveillance technology such as cameras and facial recognition software, research shows

WEKU

U.S. Sixth Circuit decision on gender-affirming care law may not be final word

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky isn’t giving up on the fight against a state law that prohibits gender-affirming medical care for minors. The group lost a battle last week when the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected attempts to block Senate Bill 150 from taking effect.

The Independent UK

Voting rights advocates sound alarm on Alabama defying Supreme Court decision with congressional map

NAACP and ACLU called on Supreme Court to deny state lawmakers’ request to defy major ruling

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The Guardian - US

‘Subtle and sinister’: Republicans’ anti-drag crusade seen as assault on LGBTQ+ rights

Hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ laws were introduced in 2023, including bans on drag shows, but many have been struck down

The Independent UK

Wrongly arrested because of facial recognition: Why new police tech risks serious miscarriages of justice

The latest generation of police surveillance tools are overused, underregulated and often completely wrong, opponents tell Josh Marcus and Alex Woodward

The Independent UK

Wrongly arrested because of facial recognition: Why new police tech risks serious miscarriages of justice

The latest generation of police surveillance tools are overused, underregulated and often completely wrong, opponents tell Josh Marcus and Alex Woodward

The Independent UK

Shocking videos show police holding family at gunpoint as they rushed to save dog

‘It’s policy,’ said the officer who held the distressed family at gunpoint

The Guardian - US

NYPD agrees to ‘significantly’ change how it handles protests in the city

Reform is part of a settlement agreement in response to lawsuits about police behavior during the 2020 racial justice protests

The Guardian - US

Cop City protesters charged with racketeering as Georgia takes hard line

Some of 61 defendants charged also face money laundering and domestic terrorism charges for environmental protests

Texas Observer

‘Heartbreaking’: Anti-Trans Healthcare Law Takes Effect in Texas

Despite ACLU win in lower court, an appeal by the state means transgender kids and their families will feel the devastating effects of the ban.

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