News & Commentary

The Madison Lake Police Chief is supposed to represent and serve a diverse community. The ACLU is calling for him to be investigated for the video he posted on Facebook. A police chief is given tremendous power,  they carry a weapon and should be a neutral law enforcement officer who serves and protects the entire community. 

We filed a lawsuit against Nobles County in 2015 for their anti-immigrant practices. They didn’t listen the first time, so we’re filing another lawsuit.

Forty percent of people in America live in a household with a gun. Minnesota law enforcement needs to update their policies, training, and tactics if they intend to police an increasingly armed society.

On July 25, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that the fight for fair and equal education in Minnesota can move forward.

We the People is a monthly feature uplifting amd sharing the stories of ACLU-MN members, supporters, volunteers, and allies doing critical work in Minnesota (and beyond) to protect and advance civil liberties. Andrea Duarte-Alonso is a 21-year-old from Worthington, Minnesota, who joined the ACLU-MN on a trip to Washington, D.C., in June for the ACLU Membership Conference. 

Despite outrage over the shooting of Philando Castile, unjustified killings by police continue. Despite outrage over the shooting of Philando Castile, unjustified killings by police continue. 

Hearing sounds of children crying as they are ripped from their parents or seeing young ones behind bars is heartbreaking. Many people have been reaching out to the ACLU to ask what they can do to help. There are many ways to support families in need, while also working to effect change on a political level. The ACLU has come up with a list of ways you can be involved. This crisis cannot be solved by the ACLU alone so this list includes supporting the work and needs of other organizations who are also in this important fight. 

Eric Hauge is the executive director of HOME Line, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal, organizing, educational, and advocacy services so tenants throughout Minnesota can solve their own rental housing problems. Learn more at homelinemn.org. As a Minnesota-based statewide tenant rights organization that advises roughly 15,000 renter households annually, our organization has witnessed numerous Minnesota cities adopting rental housing disorderly conduct, nuisance, and/or crime-free ordinances (hereafter abbreviated CFOs) over the past 20 years. In general these types of ordinances provide cities the ability to issue penalties to landlords or revoke rental licenses if there is repeated disorderly, nuisance or criminal behavior occurring at or around their rental property.