Along with our advocacy, legislative, and public education work, litigation remains one of the fundamental tools with which the ACLU of Minnesota fights for equality and civil rights throughout the state. See below for more information on the cases we've brought to the courts.
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The ACLU-MN sued on behalf of a woman who faced criminal charges for recording police holding two Black men at gunpoint. The suit alleges the City of Robbinsdale and involved officers violated her First and Fourth Amendment rights.
The city of Minneapolis and its police department are willfully subverting our state’s Government Data Practices Act by withholding public data about disciplinary action taken against police for serious misconduct, according to a new lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Minnesota in state court Thursday.
Concerned Minnesotans alerted us to a recent partnership between Kandiyohi County Housing and Redevelopment Authority and Willmar Police Department related to K-9 training.
COVID-19 has spread like wildfire at the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Waseca, where that was completely avoidable.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a class action lawsuit to force the Minnesota Department of Corrections to protect people in its custody from COVID-19.
Seven homeless individuals who were evicted from their homes in city parks and saw their property destroyed filed a class action lawsuit in federal district court.