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ACLU targets same-sex classrooms

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 7:40am

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is targeting schools for what it says are illegally discriminatory single-sex classrooms.

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ACLU defends girls for joking on Facebook about which classmates to kill

Deanese Williams-Harris Chicago Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 4:20pm

CHICAGO -- The American Civil Liberties Union is fighting the expulsion of three eighth-graders in northwest Indiana for joking on Facebook about which classmates they would kill.

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Dan Mach, the national American Civil Liberties Union’s director of Freedom of Religion, presents “Polygamy, Peyote and the Pledge of Allegiance” at Weber State University in Ogden on Wednesday. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

ACLU speaker: Courts key to freedom of religion, expression

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:26pm

OGDEN — Americans treasure their freedom of speech and freedom of religion, along with the ability to deny both to people they don’t like.

So Dan Mach, director of Freedom of Religion for the American Civil Liberties Union, told an audience at Weber State University on Wednesday.

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ACLU questions cellphone tracking policies of law enforcement

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 6:30am

OGDEN — The Weber County Sheriff’s Office typically doesn’t obtain probable cause warrants to track cellphones in criminal investigations, according to a new national study by the American Civil Liberties Union.

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Civil liberties presentation to be held at WSU

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 10:27pm

OGDEN -- Dan Mach, the national American Civil Liberties Union's director of Freedom of Religion, will present "Polygamy, Peyote and the Pledge of Allegiance" on Wednesday at Weber State University.

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Utah bill on abortion waiting period clears hurdle

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 11:18pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A measure that would triple the waiting period for abortions in Utah from 24 to 72 hours has cleared its first hurdle.

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Russell Dickerson, Jr., Russell Dickerson, III and ACLU-WA Executive Director Kathleen Taylor at a 12-07-10 press conference in Seattle, Washington.

Bullied student awarded $100,000 from school district

Lornet Turnbull The Seattle Times

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 11:40am

SEATTLE -- As people grow older and look back at years spent in high school, they can often find pleasant memories lurking there -- of lifelong friends they made, or of fun times they had.

When Russell Dickerson III looks back, there's none of that -- just mostly sadness.

The 20-year-old black student, who said he endured relentless bullying and harassment by fellow students from the time he entered junior high until he graduated from high school, has reached a $100,000 settlement with the Aberdeen School District, where it happened.

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Public invited to free film screening

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 10:35pm

OGDEN — The public is invited to view an award-winning documentary, “The Oath,” about two men who were involved with al-Qaeda, at 7 p.m. Thursday at Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd.

The free showing is co-sponsored by the ACLU of Utah, Egyptian Theater, and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden.

A review of the film states, “From the director of the Oscar-nominated ‘My Country, My Country,’ ‘The Oath’ is a spectacularly gripping documentary that unspools like a great political thriller.

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Treces headed to Logan? Ogden gang unit working with Cache school officials

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 11:45pm

OGDEN -- Apparently hoping to outrun the restrictions of Ogden's gang injunction meant to keep them off the streets, members of the city's oldest street gang may have suddenly appeared in Logan.

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ACLU: Criminal defense underfunded in Utah

Josh Loftin The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, August 26, 2011 - 1:27pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah says the state isn't providing adequate criminal defense for poor defendants.

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WSU student: Jail time was not justified

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, August 5, 2011 - 11:18pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A 22-year-old Weber State University student who was jailed for 39 days has filed a civil lawsuit against Salt Lake County Sheriff James Winder and his officers, saying the incarceration was unjustifiable and illegal.

Enrique Uroza, 22, who lives in Salt Lake County, filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court through the American Civil Liberties Union and cooperating attorney B. Kent Morgan, of The Dyer Law Group.

A court date has not been set.

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Groups file federal lawsuit over Utah's new immigration law

Los Angeles Times, Nicholas Riccardi

Last updated Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 11:30pm

DENVER -- Utah won national attention earlier this year for promoting a gentler approach to immigration when it passed a law essentially allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the state if they work and don't commit crimes.

Yet on Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center filed a federal lawsuit to stop the implementation next week of another Utah immigration law, one modeled on a controversial Arizona law that enlists local police to help root out illegal immigrants.

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Utah sued by ACLU over immigration law

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 11:45am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Two national organizations are suing Utah to halt a new immigration law they claim encourages racial profiling.

The National Immigration Law Center says an enforcement measure signed by Gov. Gary Herbert in March is just as unconstitutional as a similar Arizona law that courts have already struck down. The American Civil Liberties Union also has joined the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Salt Lake City.

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Ogden's Trece injunction 4-0 in constitutional bouts; appeal of justice court conviction upheld against gang member

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Monday, April 11, 2011 - 11:58pm

OGDEN -- The Trece gang injunction scored another win in terms of constitutional challenges with a victory Monday in 2nd District Court.

Last fall, Isaac Rader was the first Trece sentenced under the injunction, which bans members of the Ogden criminal street gang from associating in public, being in the vicinity of guns, drugs and alcohol, and staying out past 11 p.m.

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) Weber County Deputy District Attorney Branden Miles speaks to a Weber State University forum audience about the Trece gang injunction on Thursday. Weber County Attorney Dee Smith (not pictured) and the head of the Ogden Metro Gang Unit asked for Thursday’s forum, sponsored by the Criminal Justice Honors Program and the American Democracy Project. They wanted equal time after the Utah branch of the American Civil Liberties Union assailed the injunction at a similar forum March 2.

Forum hears positives about injunction; officials say reducing Trece crime is working

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 10:48pm

OGDEN -- Trece gang members have killed three Weber State University students, law enforcement officials told a campus forum Thursday as they explained the injunction in place to limit the gang's activities.