The Community Oversight of Surveillance-D.C. (COS-DC) urges the D.C. Council to consider and set rules for police use of surveillance technologies.
ACLU-DC statement suggesting amendments to Bill 23-882 that center on limiting police power, strengthening transparency & oversight, and decentering criminalization all in favor of a community safety system that focuses on non-police responses.
The ACLU-DC testified in strong support of the bill, which limits the District’s involvement in federal immigration enforcement by prohibiting cooperation between District government agencies and federal immigration authorities such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In this vote recommendation, the ACLU and ACLU of the District of Columbia urge members of the House of Representatives to vote YES on H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, and to vote NO on any motion to recommit that may be offered to undermine it.
The ACLU-DC's statement to the D.C. Council regarding the Metropolitan Police Department budget.
In this letter, the ACLU urges members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee to vote “yes” on H.R. 5803, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, as introduced, during the February 11, 2020 markup. H.R. 5803 would grant statehood to the residential areas of the current District of Columbia.