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Welcome to the ACLU of Texas Central Texas (Austin) Chapter
If you believe your civil liberties have been violated, please click here to request legal assistance. If you send the Central Texas Chapter your complaint, by email or by letter, it will extend the time that it takes for your complaint to be processed.
Write to us: P.O. Box 12905, Austin, TX 78711
Central Texas Chapter Board
- Debbie Russell, President
- Ruth Epstein, Vice-President
- Ken Loveless, Treasurer
- Joe England, Secretary
- David Kobierowski
- Ishrat Kundawala
- Carl Webb
- Sandra Serna
- Stefanie Collins
- Nick Papatonis
- Sueann Campbell
- Richard Franklin
- Diana Castaneda
Central Texas Chapter Challenges Police Practice
Arrest instead of citation is a means for raising revenue, charges Austin chapter president Debbie Russell. Read More...
Listen to ACLU-TX radio: Give Me Liberty
Houston Regional Director Maida Asofsky hosts a monthly radio show on issues and people important to ACLU-TX. Read More...
ACLU Victorious In Voting Rights Act Challenge
Court rebuffs Austin MUD's challenge to declare Section 5 unconstitutional Read More...
Stand Up for Freedom! ACLU Membership Conference 2008
Washington, D.C., is the place where we'll gather in June to stand up for freedom! Read More...
FROM THE LIBERTY BLOG:
Roy Mersky, 1925 - 2008
"Leaders and staff of the ACLU of Texas and our Central Texas Chapter were saddened to learn that Roy Mersky has died..."
ACLU of Texas Pleased with Commissioner’s Court Action to Amend Dress Code Rule
The ACLU of Texas is pleased with today’s decision by the Williamson County Commissioner’s Court to amend its controversial dress code rule. This rule, adopted in October 2007, required all attendees of Court meetings to wear “proper attire,” defined as “attire suitable for professional or business engagements.” Read More...
Free Market Foundation, ACLU, Texas Eagle Forum PAC Win Preliminary Injunction Against Unconstitutional Law Criminalizing Citizen Speech on Speaker’s Race
Today, a broad-based coalition of plaintiffs won a preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court in Austin that now prevents the Texas Ethics Commission from enforcing a state law restricting individuals and groups from speaking out in the Texas Speaker’s race. Read More...
Terri Burke Named Executive Director
The ACLU of Texas has named Terri Burke as its new Executive Director. Read More...
ACLUTX 2008 Summer Intern Announcement
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas is accepting applications for summer 2008 law internships. The ACLU is one of the nation's foremost defenders of civil liberties and civil rights. We are a nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending the Bill of Rights through litigation, legislation, and public education. The Texas affiliate of the ACLU, founded in 1938, is headquartered in Austin, and includes a regional office in Houston and thirteen chapters with over 17,000 members statewide. Read More...
Save the Elf! Support the ACLU!
Community Shares of Texas presents a holiday event benefiting more than 30 Texas nonprofit agencies, including the ACLU Foundation of Texas. Join us November 29th for the Zach Scott Theatre's presentation of David Sedaris's "Santaland Diaries!" Read More...
Lege Session Happy Hour May 21st!
RAIN OR SHINE!! Joan friends of the ACLU of Texas on Monday, May 21st, for our last Legislative Happy Hour of the 80th Session! Read More...
VIDEO: Children Confined
View a short video about the children detained at the Hutto facility in Taylor, Texas -- children on whose behalf the ACLU is currently suing the Secretary of Homeland Security. Read More...
ACLU Challenges Illegal Detention of Immigrant Children Held in Prison-Like Conditions
The American Civil Liberties Union today filed lawsuits on behalf of ten immigrant children, challenging their illegal detention at the T. Don Hutto facility in Taylor, Texas. Read More...
A letter from Executive Director Will Harrell: Columnist, Texan, Hero - Molly Ivins
ACLU of Texas Executive Director Will Harrell pays tribute to Molly Ivins and calls on ACLU members to remember Molly by "raising more hell!" Read More...
ACLU Defends Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by an Austin Utility District that seeks to throw out a key section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark federal law that ended the exclusion of African Americans from voting booths throughout the south. Read More...
Protest Red Light Cameras!
If you live in Austin, take a moment to tell City Council--don't install red light cameras! Red light cameras present several constitutional concerns and they are ineffective. Studies nationwide show rear-end collisions have risen anywhere from 8-81% where implemented, and the drivers who cause the worst collisions are shown to be the least likely to account for the cameras’ presence. Read More...
Austin Chapter Events!
Protest redlight cameras at city council (find links to call, email or go to the meeting) and then join us for our annual ACLU member event! Come and hear what else we're up to this year. Read More...
Austin Chronicle: Best of Austin
The ACLU of Texas was awarded "Best of Austin" by the Austin Chronicle Wednesday. Read More...
Help the ACLU Honor Banned Books Week, September 23 - 30, 2006
Enjoy readings from books banned by school districts in Texas! Celebrate reading and our precious freedom of speech. Read More...
10th Annual Banned Books Report
BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2006: Which Texas school removed "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison from its library shelves? Which school retained "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee despite challenges of "racial slurs and bigotry"? What does acclaimed author Judy Blume have to say to Texans about censorship? Find out in "Free People Read Freely," ACLU Foundation of Texas' 10th annual banned books report, available here. Read More...
Austin Candidates Forum
The ACLU of Texas Central Texas Chapter hosts a public forum for candidates for Austin city council on Monday, April 24th. Read More...
FROM THE LIBERTY BLOG:
You make us happy when skies are gray
""An alarming amount of public information is being kept secret from citizens, and the problem is increasing by the month..."
Austin's Open Government Online Amendment Analayzed
Confused about what's really in Austin's Open Government Online charter amendment? Is it really so detailed and incomprehensible? See for yourself. Read More...
Austin voters should give the public the password to government info
The Open Government Online charter amendment gives the public direct access to the city’s most important information. That’s why the city hopes to scare you into voting no in May. Read More...
ACLU Austin needs your help NOW!
With only two weeks left to gather signatures, the petition drive started by Save Our Springs and strongly endorsed by the Central Texas ACLU needs your help! Download a petition, ask a few friends to sign, and turn it in. Its easy and will make all the difference! Read More...
Corporations are not people, or are they?
Public forum: Should corporations continue to be treated as "persons" with individual rights? Come to our January forum! Read More...
Austin Taser death result of bad policy
The Central Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union condemned the use of Tasers by the department in a Tuesday afternoon protest by a handful of people at police headquarters. Since 1998, all but one of the 14 people who died while or after Austin police officers used force on them were minorities. Read More...
Four Texas cities pass resolutions opposed to the Patriot Act
Resolutions have been passed in 4 communities in Texas, and 385 more nationwide. These communities represent approximately 62 million people who oppose sections of the USA PATRIOT Act. Read More...
FROM THE LIBERTY BLOG:
Austin School Refuses to Ban Book
"It is Banned Books Week 2005, and today's Austin American-Statesman has a front page story about an unsuccessful attempt at book banning, "St..."
Recommendations for APD/COA on Rocha incident
The ACLU issues a media advisory regarding the protest and policy recommendations after the Rocha shooting in Austin. Read More...
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