Ethical questions raised about police use of robotic dog
Using robots in dangerous police situations is common these days, but one police department has been quietly testing a special robot that looks like a dog.
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ACLU: Sacramento school violated free speech
An elementary school art lesson meant to encourage students to explore activism resulted in a First Amendment violation when the teacher censored students' Black Lives Matter posters, the ACLU claims.
ACLU, Michigan workers sue McDonald's over sexual harassment
Days after Steve Easterbrook was fired as McDonald's CEO for engaging in what the company called a consensual relationship with an employee, workers filed a class-action lawsuit against the company over sexual harassment.
ACLU sues feds over surveillance from facial recognition technology
The America Civil Liberties Union is suing multiple government agencies to release records on how facial recognition technology is being used, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
States passed a flurry of new abortion restrictions this year
Abortion regulations were in the news earlier this year, with highly restrictive state bans making national headlines. Republican-leaning states, emboldened by the conservative-majority Supreme Court and efforts by the Trump administration to
He applied for a green card. Then the FBI came calling
Mehdi Ostadhassan was at an academic conference when he received a mysterious phone call from the FBI.
ACLU demands DeVos back down from defunding threat
The American Civil Liberties Union is calling for the Education Department to rescind its threat to revoke a university's Middle East studies program's federal funding over allegations including that its curriculum fails to address the plight of the region's Christians and Jews.
Facial-recognition tech flagged 26 lawmakers as criminals
A picture of every California state legislator was run through a facial-recognition program that matches facial images to a database of 25,000 criminal mugshots, the American Civil Liberties Union of California (ACLU) said Tuesday in a statement.
ACLU concerned about surveillance balloons over Midwest
The South Dakota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union says it's concerned about a report that the U.S. military is using high-altitude balloons to conduct surveillance tests in six Midwestern states.
Planned Parenthood, ACLU sue Missouri over 8-week abortion ban
Abortion rights supporters are suing Missouri over its ban on abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy, arguing that the measure is unconstitutional.
