The ACLU of Michigan files lawsuits that impact people’s rights by setting a legal precedent, or affecting the policies and actions of public officials. Our current Fall 2024 Legal Docket details our legal cases and actions taken in 2023-2024.
Every election season the ACLU of Michigan learns about local officials ordering homeowners to remove political signs from their yard, and this year was no different. In September 2020 a man in...
In 2018 the ACLU of Michigan filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting a group of students in Detroit who sued the state over its lack of support for...
People who are accused of a crime must often rely on their family or friends to put up the money to bail them out. As part of our bail reform work, the ACLU of Michigan learned that courts in...
As a result of amendments to Michigan’s sex offender registration law, some people who were previously required to register are no longer required to do so. Unfortunately, the Michigan State...
In connection with a lawsuit against the Oakland County Jail, the ACLU of Michigan and our co-counsel at the Advancement Project, Civil Rights Corps, and the law firm of Pitt McGehee...
The ACLU and immigrant-rights activists filed a Freedom of...