The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the Buffalo Police Department for failing to provide police officer misconduct records. Pro bono counsel from Shearman & Sterling LLP filed the lawsuit after the Police Department denied the NYCLU’s requests for ...

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The New York Civil Liberties Union on Monday released a report that details how 23 police departments handled Freedom of Information Law requests for information on the use of force, stops and detentions, complaints about misconduct, racial profiling and the ...

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An activist group in New York is suing the NYPD to stop their usage of an ambiguous non-answer to questions about secret surveillance programs. Court papers show the New York Civil Liberties Union has sued the NYPD to ask the ...

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A Buffalo high school student claims in a federal lawsuit that his school has thwarted his efforts to form an after-school club for LGBT students. The New York Civil Liberties Union sued Wednesday on 18-year-old Byshop Elliot’s behalf. Elliot says ...

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A judge has allowed the New York Farm Bureau to intervene in a lawsuit that could dramatically affect farm wages in the state. The New York Civil Liberties Union in May filed a legal challenge to a state law that ...

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The head of the New York Civil Liberties Union is rolling a Wheel of Justice through the state in hopes of putting a spotlight on inequalities in the state’s judicial system.

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CANANDAIGUA (AP) — The New York Civil Liberties Union said it has reached an agreement with a central New York county it sued over how it handles providing criminal defense for poor or indigent defendants. The advocacy group said Thursday ...

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The Emily Good-Rochester Police Department debate continued yesterday at a press conference with Good and supporters from the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Rochester Police Accountability Coalition (RPAC) at the Liberty Pole in downtown Rochester.

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The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling for more legislative investigation of a proposed DNA databank bill and asking for extra assurance in DNA lab testing. But Sean M. Byrne, acting commissioner ...

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ALBANY — The New York State Court of Appeals on Thursday reinstated a lawsuit challenging the state’s system for representing poor defendants in criminal cases, rejecting arguments that fixing its failings should be left to the Legislature ...

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Thursday marked the 47th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Gideon v Wainwright. New York State Defenders Association Executive Director Jonathan E. Gradess said in a statement ...

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In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the subsequent war on terror, the issue of how to bring captured enemy combatants to justice continues to fester.

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