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DETROIT — The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan announced a federal lawsuit today against the City of Detroit on behalf of an army veteran who was subjected to an illegal cavity search by police at a Southwest Detroit gas station.
Concerned that indigent defendants in the Detroit suburb of Eastpointe are being tossed into “debtors’ prison” for their inability to pay court fees and fines, the ACLU of Michigan today filed a Freedom of Information Act request for information related to Eastpointe law enforcement.
When marchers take to the streets on Friday for a mass walk from Detroit to Flint to call for better access to clean water, the ACLU of Michigan heaquarters in Detroit will be one of the stops along the way.
The Detroit City Council decided that youth in metro Detroit do have constitutional rights worth respecting after all—at least to some degree.
Reflecting deepening concern over the controversial shooting death of 20-year-old Terrance Kellom by a federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, the ACLU of Michigan joined on Thursday with the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, the C
Continuing a series of programs centered on special-education students in public schools, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan will sponsor a panel discussion at Birmingham Unitarian Church in Bloomfield Hills on May 28 on the rights of students with disabilities and the impact of dwind