The Washington Superior Court has granted judgment to Christopher Hagan in his lawsuit against the City of Barre, striking the city’s residency restriction ordinance that barred individuals with certain criminal convictions from living within most of Barre.
Posts Tagged ‘freedom of movement’
ACLU of Vermont Wins Suit Against Residency Restriction
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Fighting Racial Profiling
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Collection of racial data by four Chittenden County police departments is underway, and will be examined for signs of racial profiling.
The voluntary effort — which involves departments in Burlington, South Burlington, Winooski, and the University of Vermont — is the result of complaints by minority residents that police were stopping them more often than Caucasian drivers, simply because of their skin color. (more…)
PASS ID No Better Than Real ID
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Gov. James Douglas is now head of the National Governors Association. At the group’s meeting this week in Biloxi, Miss., he heard complaints from other governors about why the federal REAL ID initiative is not a good idea. He’s coming around to their way of thinking.
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Laptop Searches At The Border
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009The ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to try to learn more about searches of laptop computers and other devices carried by travelers crossing into the U.S.
A year ago CBP issued a policy that permits officials to search laptops and similar devices without suspicion of wrongdoing. The ACLU wants to know how the searches square with the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches, and other constitutional protections.
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