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Today, it was reported that the mother of Jaya Beemon (a nursing student who was shot and killed) was arrested by a CPD officer at the University of Chicago Hospital where her daughter’s body was taken. Jaya’s family said they were not allowed to view her body at the hospital.
Nusrat Jahan Choudhury is the new Roger Pascal Legal Director for the ACLU of Illinois. She joins the staff after nearly 12 years on the legal staff of the ACLU national office in New York City.
The below statement can be attributed to Heidi Dalenberg, Director of the Institutional Reform Project, ACLU of Illinois:
Standards for comprehensive sexual health education curriculum in grades 6 through 12 in public schools in Illinois will be updated and expanded under legislation introduced this week.
From John Knight, Director of the LGBTQ Advocacy Project, ACLU of Illinois:
Jaylan Butler, an innocent college student and the only Black member of the Eastern Illinois University swim team, was wrongfully arrested alongside an Illinois highway, held face down on the snowy ground with a gun to his forehead, and threatened by a group of police officers without justificati