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The midnight raid on our rights
A constitution should be a document for protecting and expanding our rights, not restricting them.
By Elizabeth Randol
A new look at Pennsylvania bail data
Courts in PA are misusing and abusing cash bail
By Jessica Li
It's time to decriminalize sex work
Sex work and sex workers have been around as long as people have been engaged in commerce.
By Naiymah Sanchez
With Roe Overturned, What Comes Next for Abortion Rights?
The impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade will be devastating. Here’s what comes next.
Remembering our friend and colleague, Jim Crawford
James D. Crawford, a longtime ACLU of Pennsylvania leader, fierce advocate for civil liberties, and friend to all who knew him, passed away peacefully earlier this month.
By Reggie Shuford
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
State police racially profiled Latinos for civil immigration purposes. Thankfully, now they’re fixing it.
A 2019 lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Pennsylvania alleged that Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) had a practice of ethnically profiling, stopping, and detaining Latinos to check their immigration “papers.” Three years after filing suit, we have reached a settlement.
By Vanessa Stine
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