JUDGE HEARS ARGUMENTS ON TIZA DISMISSAL

On Thursday June 4, the ACLU-MN had its first hearing regarding the TIZA case. In February of this year the ACLU-MN filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court against Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), its sponsor Islamic Relief and the Minnesota Department of Education stating that the charter school has violated the Establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution by using taxpayer money to illegally promote religion. read more...

New Report Finds Racial Profiling Still Pervasive

NEW YORK - Widespread racial profiling by law enforcement agents as a result of Bush-era policies remains a pervasive problem throughout the United States, according to a report out today by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Rights Working Group (RWG). Government policies are a major cause of the disproportionate stopping and searching of racial minorities by law enforcement agencies, according to the report, which was submitted today to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) read more...