This testimony includes some recommendations of the report that the ACLU-DC views as critical to restricting harmful police practices and holding police accountable to the law and to the communities they...
The ACLU-DC provides suggestions about Bill 24-213, which prohibits D.C. law enforcement officers from engaging in vehicular pursuits of an individual operating a motor vehicle, and Bill 24-94, which would...
The ACLU-DC speaks before the D.C. Council about decentering police from public safety approaches, which requires significant investments in non-police services and resources and ending reliance on police...
While we support the District in moving towards more energy efficiency, the ACLU-DC strongly opposes the creation of infrastructures for pervasive mass surveillance and have concerns about the use of a...
ACLU-DC testifies before the D.C. Council Committee key takeaways and recommendations from our analysis of MPD’s 2020 NEAR Act “stop and frisk” data, and our report "Protest During Pandemic: D.C. Police...
ACLU-DC statement emphasizes the importance of centering public health and economic justice rather than traumatic carceral approaches to public safety, as well as the trauma, violence, and ineffectiveness...