News & Commentary
Nov 30, 2011
STATE TROOPER PARTNER CASE IN COURT
JEFFERSON CITY – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri will be in court Wednesday, November 30 to argue on behalf of Kelly Glossip, whose partner, Dennis Engelhard, was a state trooper killed in the line of duty while responding to an accident on Christmas Day, 2009. Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers who are killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners from receiving those benefits. Glossip is seeking the same survivor benefits provided to different-sex partners.
Nov 18, 2011
Class Action Certified in ACLU Lawsuit
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A federal judge granted class certification this week in the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri’s federal lawsuit charging Linn State Technical College with violating the constitutional rights of its students by forcing them to submit to mandatory drug tests as a condition of their enrollment. The ACLU now represents a class of all current and future students seeking degrees or certificates at the college.
Nov 01, 2011
Missouri Ballot Initiative on Religion Amendment is Misleading
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri filed today a lawsuit challenging the misleading description of a constitutional amendment that will be put to a vote in November 2012 and which would deny religious protections to prisoners and would allow students to refuse to participate in any assignment that they claim violates their religious beliefs.
Oct 12, 2011
THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF EASTERN MISSOURI RESPONDS TO LINN STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE STATEMENT
ST. LOUIS, October 12, 2011--Linn State Technical College has embarked on an unprecedented course of action in forcing students to take drug tests without cause for suspicion. The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM) believes their policy is an ill-considered and dangerous attack on fundamental American liberties.
Oct 05, 2011
Judgment against County in ACLU challenge to detaining arrestees without Due Process
ST. LOUIS — A federal judge today entered judgment in an class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Eastern Missouri on behalf of a man held in jail by mistake without seeing a judge for 37 days.
Oct 05, 2011
Eighth Circuit Reaffirms Funeral Protests Are Protected By First Amendment
ST. LOUIS - October 5, 2011 – The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit today affirmed last summer’s decision striking down the City of Manchester, Missouri’s funeral protest ordinance. The Court reaffirmed that peaceful pickets on public sidewalks near funerals are entitled to the protection of the First Amendment.
Sep 14, 2011
ACLU Lawsuit Charges that Mandatory Drug Testing Policy at Missouri College is Unconstitutional
Linn State Technical College Forcing Students to Submit to Tests Without Any Suspicion of Wrongdoing
Aug 05, 2011
Missouri Education Group Will No Longer Provide Schools With Software That Illegally Censors LGBT Web Content
ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Research & Education Network (“MOREnet”), a consortium that provides Internet access and filtering software to 100 school districts across the state, confirmed today it will no longer activate a feature on its filtering software that blocked non-sexual content geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities.
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