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Today the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana filed suit against Jefferson Parish officials because a prisoner in Jefferson Parish Correctional Center has been denied access to a lawyer. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S.
BATON ROUGE, LA - A consent decree was filed today in a lawsuit brought by the East Baton Rouge Federation of Teachers and the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the unconstitutional drug testing of teachers without reasonable suspicion.
Today the ACLU of Louisiana sent a letter to Mayor Jack Dale Delhomme of Breaux Bridge, expressing support for the rights of clergy members who were threatened with arrest for passing out religious literature outside the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival. ACLU Executive Director Marjorie R.
Today the ACLU of Louisiana urges the Rapides Parish Police Jury not to adopt a resolution concerning marriage. The Police Jury should stand by its vote from March 2, when it recognized that neither Rapides Parish nor any other local body can affect the laws governing marriage in Louisiana.
After seeing an increase in complaints regarding rapes and sexual assaults against gay and transgendered prisoners in the last few weeks, today the ACLU of Louisiana wrote to Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff Marlin Gusman, urging him to protect gay and transgendered prisoners at his jails.
Today the ACLU of Louisiana filed suit against the City of Mamou, Louisiana, on behalf of a man who was arrested for contacting the media about official misconduct. Bobby Simmons, the plaintiff in the lawsuit, served 27 years as a police officer in Franklin and Abbeville. Last May, Mr.