ACLU-PA Urges Pittsburgh to Change Policy Regarding Unhoused
ACLU-PA and Community Justice Project sent a letter urging the City of Pittsburgh to respect rights of unhoused people during closures of homeless encampments.
Student Arrests in Allegheny County Schools: The Need for Transparency and Accountability is a new research report published by the ACLU of Pennsylvania. The report finds that student arrests or referrals to police occur more often than are documented by schools.
Broken Rules: How Pennsylvania Courts Use Cash Bail to Incarcerate People Before Trial is a new research report published by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.
As explained in our 2019 More Law Less Justice report, for the last four decades, the Pennsylvania Legislature has acted as a bipartisan offense factory, churning out hundreds of new bills each legislative session that seek to
The ACLU of Pennsylvania has conducted the first empirical study of the fines, costs, and restitution imposed and collected by Pennsylvania courts in criminal cases.