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“Making the Metro safer means increasing accessibility, reliability, and affordability of our transit system for everyone in the DMV...Increasing police presence and power, however, would undermine our shared goal of transit safety."
WASHINGTON – Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a federal lawsuit against U.S.
Request Follows Court’s Dismissal of Claims for 2020 Tear-Gassing and Beating of Demonstrators
Military-Grade Weapons Were Used Against Black Lives Matter Protesters Without Warning in June 2020
“No one should face what I had to face at the D.C. Jail. DOC put my safety and mental health at risk, and I’m glad that other trans people at the Jail will be treated with more dignity."
Court also rules that claim challenging the sexually invasive manner of a 2019 search may proceed