Civil Liberties

NEW YORK (AP) — The goodwill surrounding a deal to resolve how New York City carries out its stop-and-frisk crime-reducing tool is raising hopes that the new mayor will amicably resolve other disputes that have spilled into the courts as well, including the police department’s eavesdropping in Muslim communities…

theGRIO REPORT – Bowing to concerns from both the public and members of Congress, President Obama announced Friday his administration would seek to overhaul a controversial program run by the National Security Agency that collected huge numbers of phone records of Americans in bulk…

OPINION – This unfair stigmatization of the poor is becoming more commonplace as Republicans on all levels cut back on benefits in the name of budgetary constraints…

NBC NEWS – The American Civil Liberties Union has weighed in on uniform-mounted police cameras in a lengthy blog post on its website…

OPINION – During these last few years we have witnessed an unprecedented assault on the right to vote…

OPINION – So much wasted in time and resources, so little achieved, and so many people of color victimized over stereotypes…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Muslim leaders in New Jersey say the state attorney general has assured them that a New York Police Department unit that conducted surveillance of Muslim groups is no longer operating in the state…