DETROIT – The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed 13 Freedom of Information Act requests today seeking records regarding the emergency financial manager law passed last month. The requests were sent to the state superintendent, treasury department, bill sponsors, Detroit Public Schools and several cities that currently employ emergency financial managers.
Ann Arbor, MI — The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is gravely concerned by plans to evict about 20 residents of the local homeless encampment Camp Take Notice from public land near Interstate I-94 and Ann Arbor-Saline Road. The Michigan State Police posted signs in the encampment yesterday warning residents that they must leave or risk being arrested for trespassing.
As a Wayne State University student, it’s hard to listen to people complain of a lack of things to do in Detroit.
Although sometime's the landscape looks a little dismal, there are so many ways to experience the city, from the neighborhood bars to the city’s beautiful architecture to a visit to an art gallery.
Detroit – The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Detroit Police Department's 2008 raid of the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. During the raid more than one hundred innocent people were detained, searched, and charged with loitering. In addition, more than 40 legally parked cars were seized and not released until their owners paid nearly $1000.
Detroit – In a letter today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan urged the Royal Oak Police Department and City Attorney to abide by the law and end its practice of seizing medical marijuana from registered patients.
Detroit –The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan today released a comprehensive report entitled “Reclaiming Michigan’s Throwaway Kids: Students Trapped in the School-to-Prison Pipeline,” which documents a trend amongst school districts to enforce severe disciplinary policies and practices that push children permanently out of the classroom without regard for the long-term impact. The school-to-prison pipeline refers to the national trend of criminalizing, rather than educating, our children.
DETROIT – The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a federal lawsuit last night charging East Detroit Public School officials with failing to protect two African American students at East Detroit High School from being taunted with racial epithets and slurs on a daily basis and from being physically attacked in the school cafeteria.
DETROIT – As the country focuses on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that ended government imposed segregation in public schools, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan today announced the settlement of a complaint filed on behalf of an African American student who was the victim of racial harassment and attacked by white students in a so-called “game of KKK.”
A federal district court judge ruled today that a Frenchtown Charter Township ordinance that prohibits firefighters from speaking to the news media about any “fire department matters” — including matters of public concern is unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan had filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Township’s firefighters’ union.
In a unanimous decision today, a federal appeals court struck down the government's blanket policy of conducting secret deportation hearings inpost-9/11 cases as a violation of the First Amendment. It is the first such decision by a federal appellate court anywhere in the country. Also read the press release from Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
