Quotation: "'The FBI had seen my immigrant Muslim community as a criminal network. An organized criminal network. What we actually are is a network of an immigrant community.' Assia Boundaoui, Filmmaker and journalist." Inside a frame around the quotation are the words "Arab American Heritage Month" and "ACLU".

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Assia Boundaoui is an award-winning Algerian American filmmaker and journalist. Through her documentary “The Feeling of Being Watched,” she uncovered the unconstitutional FBI surveillance of her immigrant community near Chicago.

BREAKING: An appeals court rejected President Trump's effort to revive his executive order targeting gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19.

The order will stay blocked nationwide as our lawsuit moves through the courts.

❗️NEW: Governor Hochul announced an updated immigration proposal that would give police officers wide discretion to collude with ICE if they claim to have probable cause to detain someone.

This proposal makes a mockery of due process and will endanger countless immigrant New Yorkers.

How One Playwright is Using Theatre to Expose the Surveillance State - ACLU of Georgia As the ACLU fights to protect people’s privacy, playwright Matthew Libby discusses his play about the private companies fueling the government’s surveillance of immigrants.

What happens when tech companies build surveillance tools for the government? A new play, “DATA,” explores that question, and the real-world consequences for our rights.

Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

NEW: We’re joined by 75 organizations in calling on Meta to cancel plans to install facial recognition technology on their “smart” glasses.

This dangerous tech paves a path for stalking and harassment, and is rife for abuse from stalkers, scammers, and government actors alike.

NEW: The Board of Immigration Appeals just denied Mahmoud Khalil’s bid to throw out his deportation case.

However, Mahmoud can't be legally detained again until his habeas appeals process is exhausted in federal court. We'll keep defending his right to live in this country and speak freely.

We’re at the Supreme Court today challenging President Trump’s attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship and upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of American-born children.

We have the 14th Amendment, Supreme Court precedent, and American values on our side.

We’re ready.

Despite lots of talk from our state leaders about taking on the Trump admin’s deportation agenda, NY lawmakers have taken no action to limit colluding w/ this rogue and lawless administration.

Immigrant NYers are being abducted daily. There's no excuse for inaction. We need the NY For All Act NOW.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! On #TDOV - and every day - we celebrate trans lives and trans joy. ⁠
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Trans people are loved, and trans people deserve to live full and open lives. We will never stop fighting to make NY a place where all of us thrive and belong.⁠
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🎨: Wednesday Holmes 🩵🩷⁠

Daughter of immigrants brings history to bear in fight for birthright citizenship Cecillia Wang was born in Oregon after her parents left Taiwan. That path has animated her work over two decades at the ACLU and will inform her case at the Supreme Court.

On Wednesday, our legal team will be at the Supreme Court defending the American tradition of birthright citizenship against President Trump's attacks.

We're prepared to fight for babies born in the U.S.A. and the families who love them.

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From Syracuse to New York City and everywhere in between, New Yorkers made their voices heard today:⁠
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❌️ No Kings⁠
❌️ No Fascism⁠
❌️ No Authoritarianism ⁠
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📸 NYCLU & Liam Kennedy

Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Rollbacks Could Harm Environmental Justice Communities

Gov. Hochul has defended her decision to delay on the CLCPA by claiming she “needs more time.”

But Black + Brown NYers in disadvantaged communities, who breathe in more than double their share of air pollution, don't have more time. They need relief today, and they need the CLPCA to protect them.

ICE to Face Court Trial Over Conditions at 26 Federal Plaza The agency is accused of violating the constitutional rights of detainees, who have been kept in overcrowded conditions and denied access to lawyers.

NEW: ICE will be forced to defend its detention practices inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza in a trial slated for the end of May.

Our lawsuit with Wang Hecker and the @nyclu.org argues that immigrants were held there in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions and denied access to lawyers.

"We’re here today b/c the City Council is voting on 2 bills that threaten our First Amendment right to speak out, regardless of our political point of view."

"This is no time for our political leaders to be pressing for legislation that could endanger our right to protest." - @dlnyclu.bsky.social

Take Action — New York for All For months, President Trump has sent heavily armed federal agents into our communities in New York and across the country. They are smashing car windows, dragging people from their cars, zip-tying chi...

Right now, Gov. Hochul + state lawmakers are down to the wire hashing out if they will finally pass New York for All to protect NYers from ICE, or if they will weaken its protections + leave communities vulnerable.

Tell Hochul + your reps that you demand #NY4All – no exceptions, no half-measures.

Governor Hochul's proposed rollbacks are an affront to the Black and Brown New Yorkers who have long borne the brunt of pollution.

Lawmakers must reject these harmful rollbacks, and commit to strengthening protections against environmental racism — not weakening them.

Mamdani, Tisch implement new requirement for body-cam footage NEW YORK (PIX11) — Body-worn camera footage for critical incidents involving the NYPD now must be released on a strict timeline. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch formally co…

Police transparency is important.

What’s even more important is investigating and holding officers accountable when footage shows misconduct.

N.Y.C. High School Student Freed After 10 Months in ICE Detention

Dylan Lopez Contreras has finally been released and can return home to his family. But ICE never should have taken him or cruelly kept him from his family, school, and community for nearly a year.

Students belong in school and at home. We need ICE out of our communities, now.

Tell Congress: No Unconstitutional War with Iran The president’s reckless decision to bomb Iran without bothering to ask for congressional approval is a clear constitutional violation that puts us all in danger. The time to act is now.

The Constitution makes it clear that only Congress can declare war, but President Trump seems to think that doesn't apply to him.

Tell Congress to stop his unconstitutional war with Iran before more people are killed.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam should be alive.

DHS agents released Mr. Shah Alam outside a closed coffee shop on a freezing night with no money, no phone, and no interpreter. From arrest to abandonment, the system treated his disability, language barriers, and refugee status as someone else’s problem.

Fight Against No-Speech Zones Please take action!

If the state proposals around so-called "buffer zones" had been enacted during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, they could have stopped marches from taking place, severely limiting the scale + impact of the movement.

NY should not support efforts that would stifle free speech. Take action:

NYPD Still Illegally Stopping New Yorkers 12 Years After Court Ruling, Monitor Finds Illegal stops, missing paperwork and weak discipline remain widespread despite federal oversight.

More than a decade after stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional, the NYPD is *still* acting like NYC is a constitution-free zone.

Unlawful stops and searches violate NYers’ rights and undermine public safety. It's long past time to end these practices - Mayor Mamdani must ensure it's done.

NYC lawmakers consider bill letting NYPD set buffer zones around houses of worship City lawmakers will hold a public hearing on the bill on Wednesday.

These proposals hand the NYPD — a department famous for its history of biased and aggressive policing — sweeping discretion to declare protest-free zones, determine their duration, and decide who is subject to arrest.

Such broad police power is a recipe for misconduct and abuse.

This weekend, Nassau County residents rallied from Valley Stream to Merrick to say loud and proud: We must do more to protect New York’s immigrant communities.

This Sunday 3/1 at noon at Bailey's — a PTP Round Table. Free and open to the public.

We're breaking down the NYPD protest settlement and hearing YOUR on-the-ground experiences with protest policing. Light refreshments provided. Come learn, come share.
Sunday | 12PM | Bailey's

Buffer Zones Around Houses of Worship in NY Would Fuel Trump’s Fight Against Protest

NY law already protects people from obstruction, intimidation, interference, violence or threatening behavior when entering or leaving a house of worship.

New proposals from City Council + Albany are at best unnecessary and at worst will exacerbate the already hostile attitudes toward free speech.

New York’s Raise the Age is Making us Safer. Some Want to Roll it Back Anyway

Since Raise the Age passed, the number of young people arrested has decreased by ~70%, and youth crime is down across NY.

The law works: it keeps more young people out of the mass incarceration machine and makes us all safer. Any rollbacks would be disastrous for young people and NY communities.

New York awards Daniel's Law pilots amid push for more funding The pilots are a step toward the state’s goal of pivoting to a health-led response in cases where someone is experiencing a behavioral health crisis.

This is an important step towards building a more compassionate, health-led response for people experiencing mental health challenges in Rochester.

No one should die at the hands of the police because they have a disability, struggle with their mental health, or have used drugs.

Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth

This is a disturbing decision from NYU Langone.

Gender-affirming care helps people live as their authentic selves and can be lifesaving. As the Trump administration continues to punish already-vulnerable people simply for being themselves, we will fight to uphold the rights of trans New Yorkers.