COLUMBUS — The ACLU of Ohio believes Substitute House Bill 439, introduced today in the House Criminal Justice Committee by Reps. Dever and Ginter, does not do enough to reduce wealth-based detention of innocent individuals and get people out of Ohio’s overcrowded jails.
COLUMBUS — The ACLU of Ohio released an open letter to school superintendents, principals and teachers across the state today, encouraging officials not to punish students who choose to participate in the scheduled nationwide school walkouts on March 14, 2018.
CINCINNATI, OH—Today the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of Preterm Cleveland and a number of other abortion providers in Ohio, challenging a law criminalizing abortions when one of the woman’s reasons for the abor
COLUMBUS, OH— Yesterday, February 6, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the American Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in the Ohio Supreme Court in support of James Dunson, an Ohio state prisoner who the Montgomery County Court imposed a debt he cannot pay, to recoup the cos
COLUMBUS, OH—Today the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the ACLU of Ohio’s client, Preterm, did not have standing to challenge new anti-abortion restrictions that were unconstitutionally inserted into the 2013 – 2014 state budget bill.
COLUMBUS- On January 29, Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor sent a letter to all Ohio trial judges with instruction to uphold current law on fines, fees, and bail practices. This was in response to concerns after the U.S.