Publication Listings

Punishing Poverty: Cash Bail in Allegheny County

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

More Law, Less Justice

A report released on October 17, 2019, by the ACLU of Pennsylvania illustrates how the General Assembly passes duplicative offenses and harsher penalties in every legislative session.

October 17, 2019

What Education Leaders Need to Know about School Policing

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

Imposition and Collection of Court Costs in Pennsylvania Criminal Cases: Preliminary Results from an Analysis of 10 Years of Court Data

By: Colin Sharpe, Jon Dilks, and Andrew Christy ACLU of Pennsylvania, November 13, 2018 (additional tables added March 1, 2019)

March 1, 2019

Forfeiture in the Shadows: An Investigation of Civil Asset Forfeiture in Cumberland County

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

February 28, 2019

Broken Justice: An Investigation of Civil Asset Forfeiture in Montgomery County

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