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American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation's Capital

Nonprofit or community organization

Last modified: April 9, 2012, 6:54 PM

Description

The ACLU of the Nation's Capital is the Washington, D.C. affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, a national nonprofit organization devoted to the protection of civil liberties and civil rights. Staff in this affiliate defend the Bill of Rights in the District of Columbia through litigation, negotiation, lobbying, grass-roots organizing and public education. The litigation docket includes about 70 active cases in local and federal courts, chiefly concerned with First Amendment issues, police practices, open government, rights of gays and lesbians and other minorities, privacy rights, and due process rights in various contexts. Legislative concerns in the last few years in the D.C. Council have included police and criminal justice issues such as revising the D.C. disorderly conduct statute, opposing civil anti-gang injunctions, reform of police treatment of demonstrators, prison crowding, sex-offender registration, civilian police review, double-blind witness identification procedures, and surveillance in various forms.

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Website:
http://aclu-nca.org
Phone:
(202) 457-0800
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, District of Columbia, 20008, United States

Keywords

Legal assistance, Human rights and civil liberties

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