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 2012, the ACLU of Michigan was shocked to learn that at the Isabella County Jail in Mount Pleasant, inmates spent many months and sometimes over a year in overcrowded cells where they were virtually on...
In May 2013 Kristen Jones helped organize a peaceful “March Against Monsanto” in a public park in Ann Arbor to protest genetically modified foods. She was told by Ann Arbor officials that she would have to...
According to an FBI operations guide acquired by the ACLU, the FBI has the authority to collect information about, and create maps of, so-called racial and ethnic “behaviors” and “lifestyle characteristics...
With the economic downturn and the failure of Michigan’s legislature to increase funding for public education, many school districts in the state are facing financial challenges. In 2013, the Ann Arbor...