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RAPIDES PARISH — The ACLU of Louisiana filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that seeks to hold Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office accountable for violating Waylon Bailey’s free speech rights after he made a joke on Facebook.
NEW ORLEANS — The ACLU of Louisiana and the law firm Wilson Sonsini sent a letter today to the Department of Justice calling for an investigation into the lack of access to counsel within Louisiana’s prison system.
BATON ROUGE — In a letter to the East Baton Rouge School System, the ACLU expressed alarm about an event during which students were subjected to religious proselytizing, and female students were given instruction in sexual abstinence and told hey should practice forgiveness of sexual abusers.
NEW ORLEANS — On the heels of the ACLU’s new research study about barriers to legal representation in ICE detention centers, the organization launched a legal rights initiative designed to provide noncitizens with knowledge of their legal rights so they can exercise them when unlawfully detained.
NEW ORLEANS — On July 26, 2022, the Honorable Wendy B. Vitter of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana denied the bulk of the Motion for Summary Judgment of two St. Tammany’s Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Teliah Perkins.
NEW ORLEANS — The ACLU of Louisiana issued the following statement regarding the New Orleans City Council’s passage of an ordinance that reverses a 2020 ban on the New Orleans Police Department’s (NOPD) use of facial recognition technology.