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.
In March 2017 the ACLU of Michigan received a complaint that representatives of Gideons International were permitted to enter Union City Middle School to distribute bibles and “Life Books” with religious...
Ever since the State of Michigan created the controversial Education Achievement Authority (EAA) to take over failing schools in Detroit, there have been complaints that students with disabilities are not...
Isaac Calland was a longtime, respected employee of New Light Recovery Center in Detroit where he counseled substance abusers.
The ACLU of Michigan has worked to expose and address Fourth Amendment abuses by inter-agency police task forces and police raids. In 2014, we learned that a task force involving the Highland Park police...
In 1971 legendary federal judge Damon Keith held that the City of Hamtramck had "intentionally planned and implemented a series of urban renewal projects and other government programs designed to remove a...
In 2016 racial slurs were repeatedly spray-painted on Eastern Michigan University buildings and dorms, including statements promoting the KKK and calls for black students to leave the university.