Hawaii leadership on stopping indefinite detention and NDAA lauded by ACLU
May 17, 2012 By acluhawaii
Hawaii recently joined the list of cities, counties, and states across the country expressing opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)’s indefinite and mandatory military detention provisions and calling on Congress to repeal them. Read more: http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/hey-congress-listen-hawaii
Federal lawsuit charges Department of Public Safety officials with unlawful discrimination against women seeking to marry fiancés in prison
May 15, 2012 By acluhawaii
Read the complaint: Santos v. Kimoto – Complaint 5.15.12 Read the Motion for Preliminary Injunction and ACLU Brief in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction HONOLULU – Charging officials of the State Department of Public Safety (“DPS”) with unlawful discrimination in deciding who has the right to marry, the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii Foundation [...]
Award-winning film about comprehensive sex education to screen in Honolulu
April 20, 2012 By acluhawaii
Tuesday, May 15, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m., YWCA Laniakea, Room 307. Suggested donation $10.00. The YWCA of O’ahu, in partnership with ACLU and Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, will show the film “Let’s Talk About Sex”. This event is co-sponsored by the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women and Women’s Fund of Hawaii. Following the event, [...]
ACLU newsletter now online!
April 10, 2012 By acluhawaii
New legal cases, emergent legislative actions, our new “Open Records Request” archive, and lots of aloha for our amazing volunteers – check it out! Volume 37, Number 3 is now online! (If you get the postal version. it is in the mail and will arrive shortly.) http://acluhi.org/archives/aclu-hi-newsletters/aclu-hi-newsletter-vol-37-no-3
Prison Privatization & Justice Reinvestment – ACLU on Hawaii Public Radio’s “Town Square”
March 19, 2012 By acluhawaii
ACLU of Hawaii Senior Staff Attorney Daniel Gluck appeared on Hawaii Public Radio’s “Town Square” on March 15, 2012 to discuss prison privatization, the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, and the ACLU’s current litigation against the State of Hawaii and the Corrections Corporation of America. Joining him were Alex Friedmann from Prison Legal News, Kat Brady from [...]
ACLU Urges States to Reject CCA Offer to Privatize Prisons
March 2, 2012 By acluhawaii
Letters From Coalition of Policy and Religious Groups Call Selling Off State Prisons “a Tragic Mistake” That Could Add Debt to State Budgets FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and a broad coalition of 60 policy and religious groups today urged states to reject a recent [...]
Apply now for summer internships with the ACLU!
February 23, 2012 By acluhawaii
***Update May 2012: our summer internship program is full, but please consider applying for the fall semester!*** The ACLU of Hawaii is actively seeking applicants for its summer internship program! We are looking for law students (and other graduate students), undergraduates, and high school students interested in a challenging summer experience. ACLU interns do everything [...]
Family of Hawaii Prisoner Murdered in Mainland Prison Files Lawsuit Against State of Hawaii, Corrections Corporation of America
February 15, 2012 By acluhawaii
Today the family of Bronson Nunuha, a 26-year-old Hawaii prisoner who was brutally murdered at a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) (NYSE:CXW) private prison in Arizona in 2010, filed a lawsuit in state court against CCA and the State of Hawaii. The suit exposes CCA’s business model of grossly short-staffing prisons and cutting corners in [...]
Federal Appeals Court Says California Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional
February 7, 2012 By acluhawaii
A huge win for equality! The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just released its opinion ruling that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Read more about the decision here and stay tuned for more information on the court’s ruling!
Supreme Court Rules Government Violated Privacy Rights in GPS Tracking Case
January 23, 2012 By acluhawaii
In a major victory for privacy, today in U.S. v. Jones the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that, “The Government’s attachment of the GPS device to the vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.” Read more about the case here.
