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N.J. ACLU Petitions For Oversight Of Newark Police
NEWARK, N.J. (1010 WINS/CBS 2) – The Newark Police Department is under fire Thursday night. The ACLU has filed a formal complaint with the federal government, saying the department has shown a pattern...
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A.C.L.U. Alleges Abuses At Newark Police Dept.
NEWARK, NJ (WCBS 880) - Officials have opened an investigation looking into the Newark Police Department after receiving allegations of excessive force and improper arrests. LISTEN: WCBS 880′s Levon...
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ACLU Files Suit Against N.J. Town’s Council Prayer Policy
POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (CBS 2) — A small town’s council is being accused of defying the separation between church and state by calling on its members to pray at every meeting. The New Jersey...
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Bill To Limit Full-Body Scan Use To Be Introduced
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is seeking to make it illegal for anyone to distribute or record the revealing images produced by full-body scanners at airports. The Democrat introduced such...
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Judge Voids NJ Town’s Policy On Council Prayers
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey shore town will have to cease its practice of allowing individual borough council members to say a prayer before meetings, a judge ruled Friday in a decision that...
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NJ Town Must Pay ACLU Legal Fees In Prayer Dispute
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP/CBSNewYork) – A Jersey shore community has been ordered to reimburse the American Civil Liberties Union for some legal fees stemming from lawsuits the group filed to end the town’s...
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ACLU Sues NJ Over Charter School Review Process
TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey has sued the state Education Department over secrecy in the way applications to start charter schools were reviewed. The...
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Lawsuit: Newark Cops Illegally Detained High School Student
NEWARK, NJ (CBSNewYork/AP) - A federal civil rights lawsuit claims Newark police officers illegally handcuffed and detained a high school honors student who made a cell phone video of them responding...
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School Board To Cover Religious Symbols At N.J. High School Graduation
NEPTUNE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Graduates at a Jersey shore high school will follow a different path as they continue a nearly 70-year tradition after the district reached a compromise with...
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Georgia Death Row Inmate Troy Davis Executed; Supporters Claim Injustice
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Groups around New York City, the country and the world spent the night Wednesday rallying to save the life of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. But in the end, the...
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Officials: New NJ ID Standards Put On Hold Due To Court Motion
TRENTON, NJ (AP) – New Jersey officials have temporarily delayed plans to implement new federal standards for people seeking to obtain or renew driver licenses or non-driver ID’s. The new “TRU-ID”...
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City Of Newark Reaches Settlement With Girl Who Was Detained For Recording...
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — The City of Newark has reached a settlement with a teenage girl who was handcuffed and detained for videotaping city police officers in an incident on a public bus back in...
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Report: Conn Police Make It Hard To File Complaints Against Officers
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) – A study of police procedures in Connecticut has found problems with how departments handle complaints against officers. Web Extra: Click Here For The Full Report A...
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ACLU Files Complaint After Company Gives L.I. Woman Unpaid Leave Due To...
RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint after a Long Island woman said she was forced to take unpaid leave due to her pregnancy. Julie Desantis-Mayer...
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Conn. High School Allows Student To Wear Anti-Gay T-Shirt
WOLCOTT, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Officials in a Connecticut school district have backed down in a fight over free speech rights, allowing a student to wear a T-shirt bearing an anti-gay message. The...
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CBS News: Boston Bombing Suspect Conscious, Talking To Authorities
BOSTON (CBSNewYork/AP) - Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was conscious Sunday night, and was responding in writing to authorities, CBS News has confirmed with law enforcement...
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ACLU: Blacks Nine Times More Likely For Marijuana Arrest In Manhattan, Brooklyn
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - The American Civil Liberties Union just took a hard look at marijuana and found that your chances of getting busted may depend greatly on the color of your skin. “This is the...
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Wildwood To Vote On Banning Baggy Pants On Boardwalk
WILDWOOD, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) – City officials in Wildwood are set to pass a law Wednesday regulating how people dress on the boardwalk. The proposed regulations would ban overly saggy pants, going...
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ACLU Sues New Jersey Over Funding For Religious Schools
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) – New Jersey’s plans to award more than $11 million to an all-male Jewish school and Princeton Theological Seminary violates state law and should be stopped, civil...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA Provision, Dismisses Prop. 8 Case
WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) – In significant but incomplete victories for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay...
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Report: Law Enforcement Watching Us Like Hawks With License Plate Scanners
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Think about everywhere you drove on Wednesday — to work, the gym, daycare. Now consider this: a new report says thanks to a growing web of cameras, police keep track of your...
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N.J. Judge Blocks Governor’s Request To Delay Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - A New Jersey judge has denied a request from Gov. Chris Christie’s administration to delay the start of gay marriage in the state until after a legal appeal is final. The...
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NY Judge Says NSA’s Phone Surveillance Program Is Legal
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A federal judge in New York on Friday found that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records is legal and a valuable part of...
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ACLU Comes To Aid Of New Jersey Teen Suspended For Flying Confederate Flag
NEW JERSEY (CBSNewYork) – The American Civil Liberties Union has stepped in to defend a New Jersey teenager who was suspended from school for refusing to remove a confederate flag that flew atop his...
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NJ School District Offers Compensation To Parents Who Out Non-Resident Students
BOUND BROOK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — The sign in front of Bound Brook High School says ‘Enter To Learn,’ but it should specify, ‘only if you live within district limits.’ As CBS 2’s Tracee Carrasco...
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ACLU Maps Out N.J. Same-Sex Marriages
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP/CBSNewYork) – Nearly 4,000 marriage licenses have been issued to same-sex couples in New Jersey since the state Supreme Court cleared the way for gay marriages one year ago....
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Sikh Hofstra Student: Army ROTC Making Me Choose Between Country I Love And...
MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A Sikh college student has sued the Army, saying he cannot join the Reserve Officer Training Corps unless he violates his religious beliefs by removing his turban,...
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Army Agrees To Recognize New Names Of Transgender Veterans In N.J.
TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The U.S. Army has agreed to “fully recognize” the new legal names of two transgender military veterans, the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said...
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ACLU Sues For Airport ‘Behavior Detection’ Program Records
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – A civil rights group sued the federal government Thursday to try to force it to turn over information about airport “behavior detection” programs designed to spot passengers...
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Newark City Council Mulling Plan For Municipal ID Program
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – Newark could be the first city in NJ to implement a municipal ID program. For supporters of a municipal ID, the goal is simple. “It ensures that everyone who lives in...
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Civil Liberties Groups Call On Court To Stop NSA Phone Record Collection
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Civil liberties groups asked a federal appeals court in Manhattan Tuesday to again strike down as unconstitutional a portion of a law used by the government to justify the...
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ACLU Calls For Release Of Officers’ Names In Shooting Of Trenton Teen
TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The New Jersey branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is demanding the release of the names of the officers who shot a teenager they say pointed a gun at them in...
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State Orders New York High School To Enroll Teenage Immigrant After Family...
MAMARONECK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)– A teenager who came to America from Guatemala will be allowed to go to school in Mamaroneck, for now. The state is ordering the high school to let the boy in after the...
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NJ Court: State Can’t Give $11 Million In Grants To Religious Schools
TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A court has ruled that New Jersey cannot give $11 million in grants to two religious schools. The state appeals court ruled Thursday that the $10.6 million grant to Beth...
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ACLU: Christian Woman Forced By DMV To Remove Headscarf For Driver’s License...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A Christian woman in Alabama was forced to remove her headscarf for a driver’s license photo after being told only Muslim women could wear them in photos, according...
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Lawmakers Seek To Crack Down On Cellphone Tracking
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Law enforcement cellphone tracking devices are coming under scrutiny in at least eight states, with lawmakers introducing proposals ranging from warrant requirements...
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Federal Judge Bars U.S. From Deporting People With Valid Visas Under Trump’s...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A federal judge in Brooklyn issued an emergency order Saturday night, temporarily stopping the United States from deporting people with valid visas under President Donald...
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Judge Extends Stay On Deportations In Trump Travel Ban
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Civil rights attorneys were in court Thursday, demanding to know who has been held at airports under the Trump administration’s travel ban. As WCBS 880’s Alex Silverman...
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Chelsea Manning Released After 7 Years In Military Prison
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the soldier convicted of giving classified government materials to WikiLeaks, was released from a Kansas military prison early Wednesday after...
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ACLU Files Lawsuit Over Transgender Military Ban
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals joining the military. The federal lawsuit was filed...
View ArticleDeadline Arrives To Reunite Immigrant Parents And Children
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Dozens of immigrant children will be released from detention centers and reunited with their parents Tuesday. The court-ordered deadline to reunite all immigrant parents and...
View ArticleSome Concerned About Car Computers’ Effect On Privacy
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Connecting to the web on the road is a convenience that could be harming us. What is saved and shared has people concerned. Drivers rely on their car computers for maintenance checks...
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