Press Releases

ACLU & Vermont Legal Aid Urge State to Stop Unlawfully Using Medicaid Dollars to Fund School Cop

In a letter sent to the Agency of Education (AOE) today, the ACLU and the Disability Law Project of Vermont Legal Aid are calling for an end to funding school police with Medicaid reimbursements.

Federal Court Allows ACLU Case Challenging Border Patrol’s Use of Checkpoints to Proceed

The federal district court in New Hampshire ruled yesterday that an ACLU lawsuit challenging Customs and Border Protection’s immigration checkpoints in New England may proceed.
Court Cases: Drewniak v. CBP

Former Bennington Residents File Human Rights Commission Complaint Against Select Board

Cassandra Keating and Joel Fowler filed a complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission (HRC) against the Bennington Select Board for unlawfully retaliating against the couple.

ACLU Urges Vermont Supreme Court to Rule for Transparency in Prison Records Case

Records held by Vermont’s former prison healthcare contractor are subject to public records law and must be disclosed

ACLU Client Files Lawsuit Challenging Retaliatory Arrest

Vermont resident Gregory Bombard yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging a retaliatory arrest by a Vermont State Police Trooper in February 2018.

Vermont Supreme Court Hears Arguments in ACLU Case on Vermonters’ Constitutional Rights in Border Patrol Searches

The Vermont Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in an appeal brought by ACLU of Vermont on behalf of a Vermont couple who were charged with possession of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms, following a warrantless search by Border Patrol agents during an August 2018 “roving patrol” stop in Jay,

ACLU & Cornell Law School’s First Amendment Clinic File Lawsuit in Support of Vermont Journalism Trust’s Efforts to Obtain EB-5 Records

Represented by Cornell Law School’s First Amendment Clinic and the ACLU, the Vermont Journalism Trust filed a public records lawsuit to obtain additional records related to the still unresolved EB-5 scandal.

Migrant Justice settles federal lawsuit on ICE retaliation: Trump administration agrees to terms in First Amendment suit days before election

In a settlement to a major federal lawsuit, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has agreed not to deport the immigrant activists who sued the agency after suffering retaliatory arrests, and to instruct officers not to target people “for exercising First Amendment rights.”