ACLU Offers Easy Tips for Student Voters
DETROIT – In an effort to inform young voters about their rights, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the NAACP have created an “how to” flier about voting while away at school.
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DETROIT – In an effort to inform young voters about their rights, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the NAACP have created an “how to” flier about voting while away at school.
DETROIT – The ACLU of Michigan emailed letters today to 425 city, village, and university attorneys in Michigan urging them to instruct their respective police forces to stop forcing minors to take unconstitutional Breathalyzer tests.
DETROIT— Continuing its strong advocacy of online free speech, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan along with the ACLU National office filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals opposing the Taubman Company’s attempt to silence a critic of the corporation.
Concerned that indigent defendants in the Detroit suburb of Eastpointe are being tossed into “debtors’ prison” for their inability to pay court fees and fines, the ACLU of Michigan today filed a Freedom of Information Act request for information related to Eastpointe law enforcement.
Dan Korobkin, deputy legal director for the ACLU of Michigan, today applauded a federal appeals court for upholding an earlier ruling that Livingston County Jail officials violated the Constitution by refusing to give inmates letters from ACLU attorneys.
When marchers take to the streets on Friday for a mass walk from Detroit to Flint to call for better access to clean water, the ACLU of Michigan heaquarters in Detroit will be one of the stops along the way.