ACLU of Delaware has submitted a complaint against the City of Wilmington to Chancery Court on behalf of Occupy Delaware and asked the Court to reopen the lawsuit brought against the city last November. ACLU-DE also asked the court for an injunction preventing any action to exclude Occupy Delaware protesters from Peter Spencer Plaza. The new [...]
After almost six years out of the limelight, Delaware’s death penalty system began grabbing headlines again when the state executed Robert Jackson in July of 2011 and Derrick Powell and Leslie Small were sentenced to death in the months following. Shannon Johnson successfully petitioned the courts to drop his appeals and hasten his execution. Barring [...]
The American Civil Liberties of Delaware contacted the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) regarding disciplinary action it took against an employee because he displayed a Confederate flag license plate on his personal vehicle while parked at work. The ACLU of Delaware informed the state that this is not a constitutionally permissible basis for the government [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware (ACLU-DE) has written to the Dover City Council urging them to vote against proposed ordinance #2012-08 as amended, which would prohibit registered sex-offenders from living or working within 500 feet of a licensed daycare center and from other activities related to children.
Brianna Moore’s parents let her dye her hair pink last week as a reward for good grades, but when she arrived at Shue-Medill Middle School near Newark, officials told her and her parents that the hair color is so disruptive that Brianna cannot return until her hair is back to its natural color. Brianna went [...]
(Wilmington, March 13, 2012) — On Friday, a Delaware Superior Court in Wilmington issued a stipulated order that respects the private communications of a Delaware same-sex couple married in California prior to the effective date of Delaware’s civil union law. Lambda Legal, Equality Delaware, and ACLU Delaware filed a friend-of-the-court brief in this lawsuit , [...]
Wilmington, DE (March 8, 2012) —The American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware (ACLU-DE) and the State of Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) have settled a case brought on behalf of death row inmate David Stevenson. Stevenson, a practicing Muslim since 1995, began petitioning for pastoral visits from a Sunni Salafi Muslim imam in May of [...]
The Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League Young Professionals and the Delaware Human Relations Commission sponsored a forum on voting rights in celebration of Black History Month.
Delaware Governor Jack Markell made history today when he announced that he would commute the death sentence of Robert Gattis to life in prison.
A Look Back at 2011 It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since I became the new executive director of the ACLU of Delaware. I’m grateful for my warm reception into the community and the opportunity to have met and worked with so many of you already. Delawareans enjoy greater freedom and equality [...]
