The ACLU of Pennsylvania, the law firm of Langer, Grogan & Diver P.C., and law professor Seth Kreimer of the University of Pennsylvania filed a class action lawsuit to stop the illegal practice by the Montgomery County court administration of charging defendants duplicative court costs.

The ACLU of Pennsylvania and two experts in criminal justice and statistics from Temple and Rutgers Universities released a report examining the imposition and collection of fines, costs, and restitution, and how these financial impositions impact Pennsylvanians of different means. 

The Philadelphia Police Department, at the request of the family of Walter Wallace, Jr., has released body camera footage of Mr. Wallace’s killing at the hands of police on October 26. 

On Monday afternoon, city police officers shot and killed 27-year-old Walter Wallace, Jr., in a West Philadelphia neighborhood. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania issued a statement in response to Mr. Wallace’s death.

In a ruling issued earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reaffirmed that the assignment of cash bail in Pennsylvania must be in accordance with state law but left in place practices by the Philadelphia magistrates who set bail that violate those principles.

The Pennsylvania Senate unanimously passed legislation to implement numerous alterations to the commonwealth’s probation system.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that Lebanon County’s policy banning the use of medical marijuana by people who are on probation and who are registered medical marijuana patients violates state law.

A judge approved a consent order on a partial settlement agreement in a class action civil rights lawsuit on behalf of people currently incarcerated in Philadelphia. The lawsuit seeks the immediate implementation of health and safety protocols to protect people from COVID-19 in the city’s prisons.

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.