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Comment on Complaint Against DHS Claiming Abuse of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children

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CONTACT: Tom Hargis, Director of Communications, ACLU of Texas, 832.291.4776, [email protected]

June 11, 2014

Who Will be Held Accountable for the Tragic Tasing of Noe Nino de Rivera?

Joint statement by American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Texas Appleseed, and Texas Criminal Justice Coalition in response to grand jury’s failure to charge Bastrop County school resource officers

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May 13, 2014

Texas Should Grant Stay of Execution for James Campbell, Launch Review

Update: Hours before he was to be put to death by lethal injection, a stay was granted by the Fifth Circuit in the scheduled execution of James Campbell.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 13, 2014

Supreme Court Upholds Town Government Prayers

ACLU Opposed Sectarian Prayers in Friend-of-the-Court Brief

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Tom Hargis, ACLU of Texas, 832-291-4776; [email protected]

May 5, 2014

New Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital in Wake of Texas Abortion Law

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Robyn Shepherd, ACLU national, 212-519-7829 or 549-2666; [email protected]

April 17, 2014

Coalition Again Urges Gov Perry to Ban Taser and Pepper Spray Use in Schools

No response to initial request despite new Tasing incident this week; mounting evidence these weapons pose extreme danger to children

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CONTACT:

April 15, 2014