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CHICAGO -- Testifying before a Illinois State Senate Committee today, ACLU of Illinois Executive Director Colleen Connell today urged the General Assembly to "finish the job" of assuring equality and equal justice under law by voting to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment.
The following is a statement from ACLU of Illinois Communications and Public Policy Director Ed Yohnka:
Statement of Mary Dixon, Legislative Director American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois RE: Final Passage of Senate Bill 2937 (Drones):
African American and Latino neighborhoods -- largely on Chicago's West and South sides -- continue to suffer inequitable police services, according to new data obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois through Freedom of Information Act requests to the City.
The following is a statement from ACLU of Illinois Legislative Director Mary Dixon:
The Illinois legislature can join the growing list of states reforming, outdated, harmful laws regarding possession of marijuana in the next few weeks, according to a group of advocates committed to changing drug policy in Illinois and across the nation.