ACLU of Nevada: News and Updates

ACLU to Taxicab Board: Stop Circulating Discriminatory Policy

Phil Hooper — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:46:20 -0700

The ACLU of Nevada sent a letter to the board of the Nevada Taxicab Authority today, urging that they take immediate steps to stop the circulation of an old policy that classfies homosexual individuals in the same "high-risk" group for communicable disease as intravenous-drug users and prostitutes.

The policy, according to media reports, was amended in 2007, but not changed in the materials circulated among employees under the supervision of the Taxicab Authority, a state governmental agency. According to the ACLU, this situation is unacceptable must be fixed immediately.

Trampling the Constitution Wasn’t Going to Solve Nevada’s Budget Crisis

Rebecca Gasca — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:44:43 -0700

Trampling the Constitution Won’t Solve Nevada’s Budget Crisis

Paige Thie White — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:35:37 -0700

Tucked into Governor Gibbons’ proposals to solve the budget crisis are thinly-veiled attacks on the Constitution and Nevada’s libertarian ethos. Some measures are illusory: they won’t actually solve Nevada’s financial woes because they shift the financial burden from one part of the criminal justice system to an increase in liability. Others measures undermine individual rights and civil liberties.

ACLU-NV Op-Ed: A surveillance state is not a budget solution

Maggie McLetchie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:50:14 -0700

Gov. Jim Gibbons recently announced that he is reconsidering a plan -- already rejected by the 2009 Legislature -- to install a surveillance net of cameras throughout Nevada's roadways to catch "insurance scofflaws." The plan's efficacy is questionable at best. All we know for sure is that it would be a big step forward to making Nevada a surveillance state.

Churchill High School Stands Up for Student Speech

Paige Thie White — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:22:34 -0700

On February 9, 2010 the ACLU of Nevada sent a letter applauding Churchill County High School for publishing a student article about a teacher in the school’s newspaper, despite attempts to block the article by the county’s Education Association.

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Strikes Down Limits on Campaign Finance

Phil Hooper — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:20:06 -0700

Nevada Court Halts Flawed Personhood Initiative

Paige Thie White — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:22:59 -0700

In a legal challenge seeking to block the “Personhood Nevada” petition, an initiative that could potentially ban a range of reproductive health care in the state, Judge Russell of the First Judicial District today declared the initiative invalid.

ACLU-NV Seeks Executive Director

Phil Hooper — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:48:58 -0700

The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada seeks a dynamic leader with a passion for civil rights and civil liberties to serve as Executive Director. For a complete job description, qualifications, and application instructions, please click here.

ACLU of Nevada Hosts Notre Dame Law School Students

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:34:10 -0700

On January 4, 2010, the ACLU of Nevada started the new year by hosting five students from Notre Dame School of Law for a day. The students were visiting Las Vegas as part of the GALILEE program (Group Alternative Live-In Legal Education). GALILEE enables students to visit different legal organizations, especially those geared towards the assistance of the urban poor and under-served populations, to learn how they can use their legal expertise to assist with the difficult legal problems in the future. It also allows the students to see and experience the issues that they would otherwise not be able to in a normal classroom setting.

ACLU of Nevada Discusses Personhood Initiative on Nevada Newsmakers

Paige Thie White — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:31:07 -0700