The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania released a statement in response to Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney after he announced his intention to rescind his proposed increase to the Philadelphia Police Department’s budget for the 2021 fiscal year.

A federal judge approved an order today to resolve a preliminary injunction motion filed on behalf of three people incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail seeking changes to the jail’s practices to protect people in the jail from COVID-19.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic at Villanova University filed a federal lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today, seeking documents that indicate how the agency’s officers engage in civil immigration enforcement.

Today, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania heard arguments in a lawsuit challenging Lebanon County’s policy prohibiting the use of medical marijuana by people who are under community supervision, such as probation, and who are registered patients with the state Department of Health.

Purging lawful voters from Pennsylvania’s voter rolls is illegal and undemocratic, voting rights groups said today while filing a motion to intervene to protect voting rights in the state.

The ACLU of PA, the law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin, and Seth Kreimer of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, released a new round of reports under a 2011 consent decree that requires the city of Philadelphia to cease unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices. 

Ten people who are currently incarcerated in facilities in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons have filed a federal civil rights class action lawsuit against the city and the department over the conditions of the city’s jails.

Lawyers representing 13 people freed from immigration detention by a federal court ruling in March have asked the court to expand the reach of that order by converting it into a class action lawsuit.

Today, three criminal legal reform groups issued a statement in response to Governor Tom Wolf’s announcement that he plans to use his powers of reprieve to make eligible for release some 1,500 to 1,800 incarcerated people.