Aclu Lawsuits Resources

ACLU to sue Sarasota over trespassing arrests
Sarasota police have issued 6,500 trespass warnings in the past four years, the group says.

Police Efforts to Ban Citizen Taping Beaten Back by Department of Justice
Feds back ACLU in arguing that taping is necessary to prevent police brutality; some cops disagree

ACLU ends immigration rights campaign in SC
On April 22, the ACLU began a ten-day-mobile campaign that started in California and ended in North Charleston Tuesday at New Covenant Church of God.

Lawsuits Filed in Va. Jail Strip Searches
Nine female contractors are suing Portsmouth City Jail officials, alleging jail employees violated their constitutional rights when they forced them to strip and undergo visual body-cavity searches.

Occupy supporters in New York, Wisconsin sue over free speech
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A flurry of civil rights lawsuits accusing police of stifling free speech of Occupy Wall Street protesters have been filed ahead of a May 1 effort to reinvigorate the movement against economic inequality. Four members of New York's City Council and others accused police in a lawsuit of using excessive force during protests in New York City, birthplace of the movement against ...

Jail officials named in nine lawsuits
Nine women say they were forced to strip naked and subjected to visual body cavity searches at the Portsmouth City Jail, so they've filed a lawsuit against the Portsmouth Sheriff.

Portsmouth Sheriff defends jail strip search policies
Nine current and former Portsmouth City Jail contractors are filing more lawsuits against Sheriff Bill Watson. The women already claimed...

9 women claim they were strip searched at Portsmouth jail
PORTSMOUTH -- Nine women are suing the Portsmouth Sheriff's Office saying they had to strip and then were searched for drugs. Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia filed lawsuits Friday for the women, who were contract workers for Correct Care Solutions or Aramark Correctional Facility Food Service. The lawsuit says Sheriff Bill Watson ordered the searches in late April ...

More suits planned over Portsmouth jail strip searches
PORTSMOUTH Six of the nine women who filed lawsuits against Sheriff Bill Watson over strip-searches they say they were subjected to at the City Jail are about to lodge another round.