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2010 Press Releases
UTAH SUPREME COURT VALIDATES USE OF E-SIGNATURES IN ELECTORAL PROCESS
Posted 6/22/10 - The Utah Supreme Court today issued an opinion validating the use of e-signatures in the electoral process. The Court’s opinion, the first of its kind nationwide, has the potential to increase significantly the ability of independent candidates to access the general election ballot, and thus to increase the opportunity for minority viewpoints to be heard and considered in election years.
Read the ACLU of Utah press release >>
Execution In Utah Highlights Need To Abolish Death Penalty, Says ACLU (6/18/10)
ACLU of Utah to Lead Election Case Before Utah Supreme Court
Posted 5/24/10 - In a press conference this morning, the ACLU of Utah announced its role in a major case currently before the Utah Supreme Court, dealing with issues critical to participatory democracy in Utah. The ACLU of Utah will be acting as legal counsel, in partnership with cooperating attorney Brent V. Manning, in a significant and potentially precedent-setting case that addresses the right of independent political candidates to fair and equal access to the general election ballot.
Full press release >>
Photos from the press conference >>
School District Revises Unconstitutional Policies, Allows Formation of Gay-Straight Alliances
Posted 4/26/10 - Under pressure from the ACLU of Utah, the Washington County School District agreed to implement district-wide revisions to its policies for forming non-curricular student clubs. These revisions made it possible for students at four St. George-area high schools—Desert Hills, Dixie, Pine View, and Snow Canyon—to form Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) for the first time in the schools’ history.
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February 12: Anti-Equal Opportunity Amendment Threatened
January 22: National ACLU Board President to Visit Utah
2009 Press Releases
November 25: Utah Supreme Court Decision Restricting Certain Free Speech Violates First Amendment
October 30: ACLU Drug Law Reform Project Director Graham Boyd to Speak at Screening of "American Violet" (PDF)
October 8: "The U.S. Immigration Policy Patchwork and Utah's Role in the National Immigration Conversation" (PDF)
October 8: Youth Activist Scholarships Available from ACLU of Utah (PDF)
September 21 Beyond the Division: How Equality for Gay and Transgender People Can Co-Exist with Religious Liberty in Post Prop 8 Utah - A public discussion at Utah Valley University (PDF)
August 20: ACLU of Utah Applauds Proposed Salt Lake City
Non-Discrimination Ordinance
August 5: "Freedom to Dream: the Rights of Immigrants" Film and Discussion in Ogden (PDF)
July 30 : "Freedom to Dream: the Rights of Immigrants" Film and Discussion in Logan (PDF)
May 11: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to speak in Salt Lake City at ACLU of Utah Bill of Rights Celebration (PDF)
March 31: Beyond the Division: How Equality for Gay and Transgender People Can Co-Exist with Religious Liberty in Post Prop 8 Utah - A public discussion at Salt Lake Community College (PDF)
February 20: Responding to Senator Buttars Remarks - The ACLU of Utah is Committed to Equality and Free Speech For All (PDF)
February 18: Surveillance Cameras Pose Civil Liberties Problems, Not Likely to Affect Crime (PDF)
2008 Press Releases
September 11: SLAM THE VOTE: POWER, POETRY & POLITICS
August 28: ACLU of Utah Deeply Troubled By Attorney General's Website Featuring Arrest Video
APRIL 25: ACLU Of Utah Releases Report on Ogden Election Irregularities
APRIL 18: ACLU of Texas Observing FLDS Custody Hearings in San Angelo
APRIL 14: DANIEL ELLSBERG TO SPEAK IN UTAH ON MAY 8
April 14: LIGHTS…CAMERA…ACTIVISM! ACLU “FREEDOM FILES”
PRODUCER TO SPEAK ON APRIL 21
Febraury 25: Local Youth Activists are also National ACLU Scholarship Winners!
January 14: ACLU of Utah Blasts Recently Released Final Regulations for REAL ID Act
January 9: ACLU of Utah Marks Six-Year Anniversary of Guantanamo Bay Detention Center
2007 Press Releases
November 29: Judge Permits Challenge to Utah Harmful to Minors Act to Proceed
November 19: The ACLU of Utah Investigates Ogden City Election Complaints and
Seeks Information From Voters Who Experienced Problems.
November 16: ACLU of Utah Asks the Utah Supreme Court to Invalidate
State Tax Law That Censors Free Expression
September 20: “Torture and the Rule of Law: Three Narratives About Abu Ghraib,” A Presentation by the Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project
September 1: The Constitutional Law Section of the Utah State Bar and the ACLU of Utah Present a CLE by Jameel Jaffer Titled:
“Foreign Intelligence Surveillance: From the 1976 Church Committee to the 2007 Protect America Act”
May 31: ACLU of Utah Welcomes Staff Attorney Marina Baginsky Lowe
April 16: Christopher M. Finan, President of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, to Speak at ACLU of Utah Bill of Rights Celebration; Editorial Cartoonist Pat Bagley Will Also Be Honored at the Dinner
February 12: Planned Parenthood & ACLU Rally for Choice:
Utahns Need Birth Control Not Bans
2006 Press Releases
November 13: ACLU of Utah Announces New Executive Director
May 16: Utah Court Rules Anti-Gay Amendment Doesn’t Bar Salt Lake City from Offering Domestic Partner Benefits
2005 Press Releases
November 10:
ACLU of Utah files friend-of-the-court brief in support of
domestic partner benefits for Salt Lake City employees
October 6:
ACLU delivers Patriot Act reform petition to Congressman Bishop
October 5:
ACLU of Utah files amicus brief on behalf of transgender employee
September 26:
ACLU joins lawsuit challenging raids of concerts
and violation of free speech: Utah court’s ruling upholding use
of 12-hour ordinance is disappointing, says ACLU
July 27:
In a win for free speech, the Utah State Tax Commission
approves personalized license plates with gay-positive messages
June 9: Federal
lawsuit challenges unconstitutional restrictions on Internet speech
April 29:
Provo High School sees first same-sex couple promenade
at prom
February 15:
ACLU of Utah files suit challenging Cache County
Jail’s policy of confiscating inmate books
2004 Press Releases
December 22:
Copper Hills High School revokes discriminatory
dance policy
December 20: Salt
Lake County Jail must finalize its strip search policy before
court will consider ending a twenty-two year old consent decree
November 18:
Girl will be able to participate
in Spanish Fork wrestling tournament
October 22:
Draper City repeals unconstitutional campaign
sign ordinance
September 14:
ACLU of Utah files suit challenging Draper’s
unconstitutional campaign sign ordinance
May 21: ACLU
files Main Street Plaza appeal
May 11: ACLU
defends Utah high school students censored for wearing gay-themed anti-smoking
t-shirts
April 16: Senator
Hatch hears concerns about post-9/11 government actions from across the
political spectrum as judiciary committee convenes in Utah
April 12:
Federal Senate Judiciary Committee comes
to town; ACLU calls on Chairman Hatch to keep America safe and free
March 25: Plaza
guards bounce students (and ACLU director)
January 6:
Constitution’s protection against unreasonable
search and seizure applies to all immigrants: ACLU files a brief urging
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse an unprecedented lower court
ruling on U.S. v. Esparza-Mendoza
2003 Press Releases
November 6: University
of Utah Daily Chronicle articles on Student Week of Action to Oppose the
PATRIOT Act
October 1:
Free speech triumphs in Ogden, Utah: Second
District Court overturns city’s ban on core political speech on
private property
September 17:
ACLU launches latest “Safe
and Free” ads in Utah, urges senators to end sneak and peek searches
August 23:
The Ashcroft Patriot Act Roadshow hits Salt Lake
City
August 22: Attorney
General Ashcroft in Salt Lake City on Monday, August 25th
August 7: ACLU
returns to court in controversy over free speech in Salt Lake City’s
“Main Street Plaza”
June 23: Tenth
Circuit ruling remains: Main Street Plaza easement is a public forum and
church’s restrictions on speech are unconstitutional
April 4: ACLU
of Utah applauds Utah Supreme Court decision to uphold the rights of high
school teacher
February 22: Judge
upholds open government and allows videotaping of Utah state committee
meetings
2002 Press Releases
December 3: Salt
Lake County Must Appoint Counsel for Child Abuse Substantiation Hearings
November 15:
Utah Supreme Court Declares State’s Criminal
Libel Statute Unconstitutional
October 9:
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses District
Court Decision on Main Street
October 2:
ACLU of Utah Defends High School Teacher Before
the Utah Supreme Court
September 18: ACLU
of Utah Celebrates Banned Book Week September 21-28
September 3:
ACLU of Utah Challenges Committee’s Decision to
Ban Videotaping of its Public Meetings
June 28: Class
Action Lawsuit Against Prison Challenges Charges for DNA Collection
June 25: In
a Letter to the Editor, ACLU Clarifies its Work in Free Speech Case
March 15:
Utah Supreme Court Decision a Win for Personal
Privacy
March 14:
ACLU of Utah Defends High School Teacher
March 14:
Tenth Circuit Court to Hear Arguments Regarding
the Constitutionality of the Main Street Plaza Restrictions
March 12:
Utah Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Regarding
Utah’s Criminal Libel Statute
2001 Press Releases
November 13: State
of Utah Spent Quarter Million in Futile Fight Against Gay Student Groups
October 18:
ACLU Sues Alcohol Board Over Secret Meetings
October 10: Court Declares Utah’s “Commercial Terrorism” Statute
Unconstitutional
September 5:
ACLU Targets Religious Discounts as Religious Discrimination;
Sends Letters Urging that Unlawful Practice be Stopped
September 4:
ACLU Withdraws Appeal of Official English Decision;
Cites Court’s Reading of the Statute as "Largely Symbolic" and Attorney
General’s Positive Step
August 13:
ACLU of Utah Files Brief in Case Challenging Constitutionality
of Main Street Plaza Restrictions; Relies on Recent Federal Appeals Court
Decision
August 1:
ACLU of Utah and Little America Hotel Reach Settlement
June 17: ACLU
of Utah Clarifies Its Olympic Work
June 4: ACLU
of Utah Asks the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to Review the Constitutionality
of the Main Street Plaza Restrictions
April 2: ACLU
Federal Lawsuit Challenges H.B. 322 New Commercial Terrorism Statute
March 6: Utah
Judge Rules English-Only Statute Does Not Prohibit Government Employees
from Using Languages Other than English
February 12:
ACLU of Utah Sues the Olympic Public Safety Command
for Withholding Public Information
2000 Press Releases
October 6: Students
and Salt Lake City School Board End Feud over Gay-Supportive Clubs
April 27:
Judge Orders School to Make Room for Student Club
with Gay Perspective
April 20:
Salt Lake City Student Ivy Fox Wins First ACLU
Youth College Scholarship
April 11:
Salt Lake School District Sued for Nixing Yet Another
School Club: Despite In-Court Pledge Not to Suppress Gay-Positive Views,
District Rejects Club’s Application
1999 Press Releases
December 2: Gay
Positive Views Will Not be Censored, Salt Lake School Officials Guarantee
November 30:
ACLU Joins Children’s Advocacy Group in Fighting
Utah’s Biased, Restrictive Adoption Policy
October 8:
Gay/Straight Alliance’s Lawsuit to Proceed
Against Salt Lake School Board -- Utah Federal Judge Says Barring Student
Group may have Violated the First Amendment
October 6:
The ACLU of Utah and the First Unitarian Church
to Host a Candlelight Vigil in Protest of the Execution of Joseph Mitchell
Parsons
October 5:
The ACLU of Utah to Bring Back Waco: The Rules
of Engagement for a Special Screening
August 25:
The ACLU of Utah and Utah NOW to Sponsor a Public
Forum on Polygamy
August 10: The
ACLU of Utah Questions Proposed Database for all Arrestees
March 24:
Free Public Forum to Examine the Impact of an Olympic
Event on Individual Liberties
February 9: ACLU
of Utah Concerned about the Fourth Circuit Court’s Decision on Miranda
Rights
January 28:
The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah to Bring
Privacy Expert to Salt Lake City
1998 Press Releases
November 30: U.S.
Senior District Judge Bruce Jenkins Rules in Favor of Wendy Weaver
November 20:
ACLU of Utah Cautions Utah Cities and State About
National Bible Week
October 20:
ACLU of Utah Executive Director Clarifies Affiliate
Position on School Uniforms in a Letter to the Editor
March 19:
Utah High School “Gay/Straight Alliance”
Sues School Board Over Right to Exist
February 11:
Utah University Reprimands Professors for Privacy
Violation
January 5:
Dismissal of Utah Lesbian Suit Sought
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