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Why PA county officials should think twice before cooperating with ICE
The ACLU of Pennsylvania recently sent a letter urging county officials to implement a policy of only honoring ICE detainers if they are accompanied by a valid judicial warrant backed by probable cause, as required by the Fourth Amendment.
By Vanessa Stine
What Pennsylvania’s failure to fund public defenders means across the commonwealth
This is a small snapshot of evidence in our lawsuit against the state over its failure to fund public defenders. As it stands, the commonwealth, excluding the Defender Association of Philadelphia, is tied with Mississippi for dead last in per capita funding of public defenders.
By Veronica Miller, Ari Shapell
Good news for free speech and holding powerful entities accountable
After more than a decade of advocacy by the ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, Americans for Prosperity, and many others, a new state law has created new protections for Pennsylvanians from SLAPP lawsuits.
By Elizabeth Randol
We sued Lancaster County judges for setting unconstitutional bail. But the problem doesn’t end in Lancaster.
We filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of individuals held pretrial due to unaffordable cash bail. This lawsuit is the latest piece of a years-long campaign to challenge the misuse of cash bail.
By Nyssa Taylor
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