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ACLU Intern Maura Ross mailing petitions to mayoral candidates The petition reads: Recently the ACLU of Illinois released a comprehensive report on the extensive and integrated surveillance camera system in Chicago. The surveillance system has been expanded in recent years with little community input and insufficient guidelines to protect privacy in the City. I urge you to adopt the ACLU's call for a moratorium on the placement of new cameras in Chicago until a full review has been

The latest copy of the Illinois Brief, the ACLU of Illinois' quarterly newsletter, is available for download. This issue covers important current issues like civil unions, repeal of the death penalty and the ACLU's suit challenging the application of eavesdropping laws to individuals making recordings of public conversations with police. Download a copy today!

Executive Director Colleen Connell appeared on WTTW's Chicago Tonight to discuss the new TSA backscatter body scanners and "enhanced" pat-downs:

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The first full-body scanners will arrive next week at O'Hare International Airport, according to a Chicago Tribune article. In the article, Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois said the body scanners are an invasion of privacy: The full-body imaging mac

Police Superintendent Jodi Weis said he wants to replace blue light cameras with covert cameras in Chicago, according to the Chicago Sun Times.Ed Yohnka, communications director and spokesman f

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