COLUMBUS – As a result of litigation brought by the ACLU of Ohio, the City of Columbus agreed to pay a settlement amount of $10,000 to Ellen Abdur-Rahim, a peaceful protester who was pepper sprayed in the face at point blank range by a then-Columbus Police officer during a political demonstration.
COLUMBUS — Today, more than 30 advocacy organizations, including The Amos Project, ACLU of Ohio, Columbus NAACP, and Columbus Urban League, announced their formal demand for the U.S.
CINCINNATI — Today the ACLU of Ohio and Young Activists Coalition-Cincinnati unveiled research showing how School Resource Officers (SROs) administer racially disparate discipline in Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS), perpetuating harm and reinforcing the school-to-prison pipeline.
ATHENS — Ohio University junior Micaela Beatham-Garcia has been named as a member of the prestigious 2021 Newman Civic Fellowship Cohort. Beatham-Garcia is the Director of the ACLU of Ohio campus chapter and a pre-law associate at the Center for Law, Justice, and Culture.
CINCINNATI — The full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an en banc ruling today, reversing a 2018 district court and a 2019 Sixth Circuit three judge panel decision in Preterm v.
COLUMBUS — Today the ACLU of Ohio and the Ohio Justice & Policy Center filed a lawsuit challenging the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s (ODRC) policy of garnishing money from prisoners’ COVID-19 relief funds to pay a fines, fees, costs, and other debts to courts and state ag