Press Releases

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Apr 13, 2017

DC’s Highest Court to Hear Challenge to Police’s Warrantless Use of ‘Stingray’ Cell Phone Tracker

The highest local appeals court in Washington, D.C. — the District’s equivalent of a state supreme court — will hear oral argument in a challenge to police use of a cell phone tracking device to locate a suspect without first obtaining a warrant.
Mar 21, 2017

Statement on Fair Public Financing Bill

Statement by Monica Hopkins-Maxwell, Executive Director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia, in support of the bill.
Feb 28, 2017

ACLU-DC Sues D.C. Police For Entering Trans Activist’s Home And Arresting Her Without a Warrant

“Trans women of color are being murdered in the street, and after this interaction, I felt as though we aren’t even safe in our own homes. I hope that elevating this humiliating and painful incident helps us work toward a system in which police protect us and enforce the laws - not break them.”