November 18, 2008 -- The New York Civil Liberties Union today testified before a City Council committee in support of a bill that would safeguard women’s access to reproductive health care clinics while protecting abortion opponents’ free speech rights.
The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal court to order the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to release documents outlining U.S. policy limiting refugee and undocumented teenagers’ access to important reproductive health services, including contraceptives and abortion.
The New York Civil Liberties Union today asked the Bloomberg administration to explain why it ordered the removal of a banner displaying a portrait of Joseph Stalin from the façade of the Cooper Union’s historic building on East Seventh Street.
The New York Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Rights Project (RRP) has published a new palm card and poster that inform mothers of their breastfeeding rights in New York State.
The NYPD has quietly dropped a 2004 policy that allowed officers to engage in political surveillance by routinely videotaping and photographing New Yorkers engaged in lawful protest. The change came to light as part of the Handschu v. Special Services Division proceedings, a decades-old federal case which has resulted in a series of court orders regulating police surveillance of political demonstrations and activities.
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