CLEVELAND – Today the ACLU of Ohio in a letter nationally coordinated by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, urged 69 Ohio municipalities to repeal their bans on panhandling. Since the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Reed v.
CLEVELAND — Today the ACLU of Ohio and Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) released the first statewide public opinion poll of voters’ views of bail and the pretrial justice system.
CLEVELAND- Today, on July 19, at 1:30p.m., the Cuyahoga County Council is expected to consider two provisions that would protect LGBT community members. The first is a charter amendment that will add gender identity and expression to the list of protected classes in the HR manual for the county.
CLEVELAND, OH — On Friday, July 13, US District Judge James Gwin dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of Luke Stewart over his avoidable death at the hands of Euclid Police officer Matthew Rhodes on March 13, 2017. Despite Judge Gwin’s explicit disgust about systemic problems within the Eucli
COLUMBUS — Today, June 26, the ACLU of Ohio filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit challenging Ohio’s U.S. congressional map as unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. Earlier this month the Supreme Court ruled on two gerrymandering cases, Gill v. Whitford, and Benisek v.
Cleveland— Today, on June 14, the ACLU of Ohio, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, scholars from Cleveland State University, and others sent a letter to Akron City Officials urging them not to destroy a local homeless encampment, Second Chance Village.