| 121611 Class-Action Lawsuit Filed on Behalf Voters of Poplar Bluff : |
The ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed a lawsuit today on behalf of registered voters of the City of Poplar Bluff who signed an initiative petition that the City Clerk, Pamela S. Kearbey, has refused to certify. Barbara Rexroat and Katherine Carda, two individuals who signed the petition filed the suit on their own behalf and on behalf of the class of at least 2,898 other registered voters who signed the petition. |
| 113011 State Trooper Partner Case in Court : |
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri will be in court Wednesday, November 30 to argue on behalf of Kelly Glossip, whose partner, Dennis Engelhard, was a state trooper killed in the line of duty while responding to an accident on Christmas Day, 2009. Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers who are killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners from receiving those benefits. Glossip is seeking the same survivor benefits provided to different-sex partners. |
| 111811 Class Action Certified in ACLU Lawsuit : |
A federal judge granted class certification this week in the ACLU's federal lawsuit charging Linn State Technical College with violating the constitutional rights of its students by forcing them to submit to mandatory drug tests as a condition of their enrollment. |
| ACLU Resolves Disability Discrimination Case : |
The ACLU of Eastern Missouri settled two lawsuits filed on behalf of prisoners in the Jefferson City Correctional Center, which is operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections. The ACLU had filed suits on behalf of Jeffrey W. Rogers and Andrew Madden alleging that the DepartmentË˙s blanket policy of denying inmates the use of motorized wheelchairs violated the Americans With Disabilities Act. |
| 101211 ACLU-EM Responds to Linn State's Statement : |
Linn State Technical College has embarked on an unprecedented course of action in forcing students to take drug tests without cause for suspicion. The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM) believes their policy is an ill-considered and dangerous attack on fundamental American liberties. |
| 100511 Judgment Against County in ACLU Challenge : |
Judgment against County in ACLU challenge to detaining arrestees without due process, A federal judge today entered judgment in an class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Eastern Missouri on behalf of a man held in jail by mistake without seeing a judge for 37 days. |
| 100511 Eighth Circuit Reaffirms Funeral Protests Decision : |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit today affirmed last summer's decision striking down the City of Manchester, Missouri's funeral protest ordinance. The Court reaffirmed that peaceful pickets on public sidewalks near funerals are entitled to the protection of the First Amendment. |
| ACLU Lawsuit Charges Mandatory Drug Testing Unconstitutional : |
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri today filed a federal class action lawsuit charging Linn State Technical College with violating the constitutional rights of its students by forcing them to submit to mandatory drug tests as a condition of their enrollment. |
| 080511 Morenet Will No Longer Censor LGBT Websites : |
Missouri Education Group Will No Longer Provide Schools With Software That Illegally Censors LGBT Web Content. The organization made the announcement after receiving a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri and the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF), which alerted MOREnet to the illegal censorship of LGBT-related websites, which was first reported to the ACLU by a public school student as part of the organization's "Don't Filter Me" initiative. |
| Civil Rights Groups Sue Missouri Officials Over Voter ID Ballot Initiative : |
ST. LOUIS, MO -- Advancement Project, the Fair Elections Legal Network (FELN), the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri today announced a legal challenge to a ballot proposal to amend the state constitution's voting requirements, saying that the ballot's language misleads voters and if passed will restrict the voting rights of Missourians, including the elderly, people with disabilities, and students, among others. |
| Missouri Ballot Initiative on Religion Amendment is Misleading : |
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri filed today a lawsuit challenging the misleading description of a constitutional amendment that will be put to a vote in November 2012 and which would deny religious protections to prisoners and would allow students to refuse to participate in any assignment that they claim violates their religious beliefs. |
| 060211 ACLU Lawsuit: Woman's Right to Marry Man Of Her Choice : |
The ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed a lawsuit today on behalf of Kayla M. Page charging Howard County, Missouri and Sheriff Charles Polson for interfering with Page's right to marry an inmate currently incarcerated at the Howard County jail. |
| ACLU Asks Camdenton R-III to Stop Censoring LGBT Websites : |
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri contacted Camdenton R-III School District today to alert the district that its Internet filtering software has been improperly configured to block access to web content geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The organization has sent demand letters to school districts across the country as part of the organization's national 'Don't Filter Me' initiative, which seeks to combat illegal censorship of LGBT educational information on public school computer systems. |
| 041411 Muslim Day at Missouri Capitol Great Success : |
April 14, 2011 More than 140 diverse members of the Muslim-American community, and some allies from other faith communities, gathered in Jefferson City on Wednesday, April 13 for a historic day at the Capitol. The event was given organizational support from the ACLU of Eastern Missouri. |
| 030211 City and Union Officials Walk Away from Jail Negotiations : |
The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM) today said that St. Louis City officials and union representatives have walked away from negotiations to create an independent oversight agency for the St. Louis jails. |
| 010511 CRITICAL SHORTAGE OF EXECUTION DRUG : |
Information uncovered by the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri through a Sunshine Law request shows the Department of Corrections has a severe shortage of the drug sodium thiopental, one of three drugs used for lethal injection executions in Missouri. |
