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ACLU Responds to Mayor’s Misguided Executive Order on Curfews in Chicago

Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued an executive order changing Chicago’s curfew laws without input or a vote in City Council.

May 17, 2022

ACLU Asks Chicago for Legal Justification, Plans for Implementing New Curfew Rules Ordered by Mayor

The City’s Corporation Counsel is being asked to justify, identify or explain the authority and procedures that Chicago police intend to use to enforce draconian new curfew measures publicly outlined by Mayor Lori Lightfoot in recent days.

May 17, 2022

In Big Win, Settlement Ensures Clearview AI Complies With Groundbreaking Illinois Biometric Privacy Law

As part of the settlement in ACLU v. Clearview AI, the company is now permanently banned, nationwide, from making its faceprint database available to most businesses and other private actors.

May 9, 2022

Federal Court Orders Bureau of Prisons to Schedule First-Ever Gender-Affirming Surgery

For the first time in its history, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has been ordered to immediately secure a qualified surgeon so that a transgender prisoner, Cristina Nichole Iglesias, can receive gender-affirming surgery.

April 20, 2022

ACLU of Illinois Responds to Monitor’s Fifth Report on Progress in the Federal Consent Decree Process Aimed at Reforming CPD

The Independent Monitor overseeing the federal consent decree designed to reform policing on the streets of Chicago issued her fifth report describing progress toward implementing the decree.

April 12, 2022

ACLU of Illinois Responds to Developments Regarding Federal Consent Decree Aimed at Reforming CPD

The City of Chicago and Illinois Attorney General secured a three-year extension to the federal consent decree process.

March 25, 2022