by Madelyn Petersen | Dec 8, 2017 | Amicus, National Security, Policing and Law Enforcement, Privacy and Technology
As our nation around the world struggle with the threat of terrorist attacks and violence from both foreign and domestic sources, we will be forced to engage with the ever-present tension between security and civil liberties. In a 2001 article in the Atlantic,...
by Karin Drucker | Dec 4, 2017 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Policing and Law Enforcement
“Homeless people get almost no choice. Shelter system, sleep on the sidewalk, hide a tent.”[1] Anti-camping ordinances primarily affect the homeless. Such laws implicate a fundamental civil liberty: the right to exist. There is a pressing need for scholarship...
by Michael Haley | Aug 11, 2017 | Amicus, Policing and Law Enforcement
This piece was co-authored by Gilles Bissonnette, the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, and Michael Haley, currently a 2L at Harvard Law School, during Michael’s internship at the ACLU-NH in summer 2017. While at the ACLU of...
by Leena Charlton | Sep 21, 2016 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice
WBUR News quotes an opinion from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: “We do not eliminate flight as a factor in the reasonable suspicion analysis whenever a black male is the subject of an investigatory stop. However, in such circumstances, flight...