News & Commentary

Sometimes the ACLU-DE gets to work on fun projects—like protecting the right of a street performer to play his guitar in Trolley Square. That was the case recently, when the Wilmington Police came down a little too hard on John Crowley and he turned to us for help.

Read an excerpt from the News Journal's coverage of the work the ACLU of Delaware is doing.

A New Castle County high school changed its concert selections for 2011-2012 to bring them within constitutional requirements, after receiving correspondence from ACLU-DE and the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief.

Legislative redistricting has put the majority of Hispanic citizens in Sussex County in the same House of Representatives district. Before the redistricting, the Latino community near Georgetown had been split into three different districts.

On May 11th, in front of a crowd of almost 600 people, Governor Jack Markell signed Senate Bill 30 into law, making Delaware the eighth state to grant comprehensive same-sex relationship rights.

Did you know that the U.S. is the ONLY advanced Western democracy that fails to recognize capital punishment as a violation of human rights?

Derek J. Hale was killed by Wilmington police in 2006. His wife sued the police department and settled for $875,000.

The modification of Newark's Property Maintenance code would waive important 4th amendment rights.