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ACLU Lauds Attorney General Nessel’s Opinion That Law Restricting Signature Collection for Ballot Initiatives is Unconstitutional

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May 23, 2019

May 23, 2019

ACLU, Same-Sex Couple Seek to Join Lawsuit to Keep a License to Discriminate Out of Michigan’s Child Welfare System

DETROIT — Kristy and Dana Dumont are prospective foster parents who were turned away from two taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies in 2016 and 2017 because those agencies had a religious objection to accepting same-sex couples.

May 22, 2019

ACLU to Ask Grand Rapids Civilian Appeal Board to Reverse Exoneration of Grand Rapids Police Captain Who Called ICE on U.S. Citizen and Decorated Veteran at Wednesday Meeting

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May 14, 2019

ACLU Supports Proposed Bi-Partisan Legislation To Protect Iraqi Nationals From Detention and Deportation

Iraqi Nationals Who U.S. Government Tried To Deport Have Since Become Citizens, Earned Green Cards Or Reopened Immigration Cases

May 6, 2019

ACLU and Michigan Immigrant Rights Center File Civil Rights Complaints Over Grand Rapids Police Racially Profiling Combat Veteran Jilmar Ramos-Gomez and Teen Held at Gunpoint for Jaywalking

New Police Video and Records Show GRPD Knew Ramos-Gomez Was a U.S. Citizen Before Turning Him Over to ICE; GRPD Officer Violates Police Policy By Drawing Gun On Teens

April 30, 2019

ACLU and Michigan Immigrant Rights Center Decry Grand Rapids Police Department’s Investigation Resulting in the Exoneration and Reinstatement of Police Captain Curt VanderKooi Who Called ICE on U.S. Citizen and Veteran Jilmar Ramos-Gomez as a Whitewash

Internal Documents Obtained by ACLU and MIRC Show Vanderkooi Routinely Requested ICE to “Check Status” Of People in Police Custody, contradicting claims that Vanderkooi Asked ICE to Check Jilmar Ramos-Gomez’s Status Due to the Unusual Charges

April 26, 2019