Take Action: Sign the ACLU’s “Don’t Spy on Me” petition
Last week, the nation learned that American telephone companies are helping the government amass what one source has called “the largest database ever assembled,” compiling call information on millions of consumers and businesses. Sign the “Don’t Spy on Me” petition today and tell the phone companies that you expect your phone records to be held in the strictest privacy. The ACLU will deliver the petitions directly to Verizon, AT&T, and BellSouth.
Sign the “Don’t Spy on Me” petition >>
Take Action: Demand questions for CIA nominee, not more spy funds
This week, the Senate is holding confirmation hearings on CIA director nominee General Michael V. Hayden. Hayden is a chief architect of the National Security Agency’s spying program, and Senators must use this opportunity to get the facts about this illegal program that is tracking the calls and communications of millions of ordinary Americans. Please make a call to Congress now to express your alarm about the NSA program and the cooperation of American phone companies. Insist that your Senators question the CIA nominee thoroughly about the program he helped create, and ask them to withhold all further funding from this illegal program until a thorough investigation is held.
Click here for talking points and to find your Senators’ phone numbers >>
Send your friends an electronic postcard asking them to call their Senators >>
Visit us at the annual Utah Gay Pride Festival
On Sunday, June 4, stop by our booth at the Gay Pride Festival. This year’s celebration will take place at the Salt Lake City Library and Washington Square in Salt Lake City (200 East 400 South). We’ll be there between 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Learn more about Gay Pride >>
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Court rules Salt Lake City can offer domestic partner benefits
Last Thursday, the Third District Court ruled that Utah’s anti-gay relationship amendment—one of the most sweeping of its kind to pass in the 2004 elections—does not bar Salt Lake City from offering health insurance benefits to the domestic partners of city employees. The ACLU of Utah filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of a lesbian employee of the Salt Lake City Police Department and the local branch of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The ruling is an important victory for lesbian and gay couples in states with similar anti-gay relationship amendments.
Read more about the ruling >>
Resource helps parents and students prevent the disclosure of student information to military recruiters
An article in last Sunday’s Deseret News notes that many students and their parents do not know about their right to prevent the disclosure of student information to military recruiters. Because there is so much confusion about this issue, the ACLU has developed a resource that explains the federal laws requiring the release of student information, and that outlines how students and their parents can opt out of these requirements. Our hope is that the document will provide students and their parents with the information they need to protect their privacy by controlling the release of personal information.
Read “Frequently Asked Questions on Student Privacy, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and the No Child Left Behind Act” >>
Read the Deseret News article, “Recruit pursuit: Schools must give student data to military” >>
Annual report available online
Our annual report, which details our activities from April 2005 to March 2006, is now available online.
Read the ACLU of Utah’s annual report >>
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