Hawkeye Area ACLU

2007

ACLU, city settle lawsuit over parking in Leon

Chicago Tribune DES MOINES, IA - A lawsuit over a church-only parking ordinance on a street in the southern Iowa town of Leon has been settled with the city’s decision to ban all parking on the street.
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Supreme Court Agrees To Review ACLU's Landmark Indefinite Detention Case (12/5/2008)

ACLU National
WASHINGTON, DC - The Supreme Court today agreed to review the Bush administration's claim that it can indefinitely imprison a legal resident of the United States without charge or trial. The case was filed on behalf of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who has been detained in solitary confinement at a Navy brig in South Carolina since June 2003. Al-Marri asked the Court to reverse a federal appeals court decision that gave the president sweeping power to deprive individuals in the United States of their most basic constitutional rights by designating them as "enemy combatants."

Hawkeye Area ACLU Activity Update

Evan Fales, Board Secretary IOWA CITY, IA - Over the past six months or so, the main ongoing issues under discussion by the board of the Hawkeye Chapter have been the activities of the Citizen’s Police Review Board (PRB) in Iowa City, and the placement of cameras in the restrooms of the Iowa City Public Library.
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Michigan State University Student Faces Suspension for E-mailing Letter to Professors

Fox News EAST LANSING, MI - A student government leader at Michigan State University could be facing suspension for sending a mass e-mail to professors about a proposed change to the school calendar — an e-mail that the university is labeling spam.
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Swat Team conducts food raid in rural Ohio

Crossroad Blog
LAGRANGE, OH - David Hernandez's story could hardly be more all-American.

On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8 PM. The team was aggressive and belligerent. The children were quite traumatized. At some point, the “bad cop” SWAT team was relieved by another team, a “good cop” team that tried to befriend the family. The Stowers family has run a very large, well-known food cooperative called Manna Storehouse on the western side of the greater Cleveland area for many years.