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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:56:48 -0400</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[I fought for civilian review of police and served on a CCRB - and transparency matters now more than ever]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2021/03/17/i-fought-civilian-review-police-and-served-ccrb-and-transpar</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Rashawn Davis, who served on Newark's CCRB after fighting for its creation, shares why police accountability matters.]]></description>
                    <author>apeltzman@aclu-nj.org</author>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:56:48 -0400</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[State of the State Response: 2021 Will Build on Civil Rights Expansions of 2020]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2021/01/12/state-state-response-2021-will-build-civil-rights-expansions</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Following the State of the State address, the ACLU-NJ reflects on civil rights gains in 2020 and our key 2021 priorities.]]></description>
                    <author>apeltzman@aclu-nj.org</author>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:04:21 -0500</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Court Affirms Authority to Require Police Transparency]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2020/10/16/court-affirms-authority-require-police-transparency</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[A ruling upheld New Jersey's directives that require public disclosure of police officers subject to major discipline.]]></description>
                    <author>apeltzman@aclu-nj.org</author>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:49:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Ed Barocas, an NJ Legal Giant, Retires as ACLU-NJ Legal Director]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2018/10/16/ed-barocas-nj-legal-giant-retires-aclu-nj-legal-director</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Jeanne LoCicero will be next legal director of ACLU-NJ]]></description>
                    <author>emckinley@aclu-nj.org</author>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 03:01:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Statement Regarding the Detention of Immigrants at Hudson County Correctional Facility]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2018/10/11/statement-regarding-detention-immigrants-hudson-county-corre</link>
                    <description><![CDATA["The status quo is unacceptable and requires meaningful change," advocates said.]]></description>
                    <author>apeltzman@aclu-nj.org</author>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:59:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Religious Leaders Sue to Void Hudson County’s Non-Transparent ICE Vote]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2018/08/27/religious-leaders-sue-void-hudson-countys-non-transparent-ic</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Freeholders deceived public, saying ICE contract vote was postponed, then voted anyway. So we sued under NJ Sunshine Law.]]></description>
                    <author>emckinley@aclu-nj.org</author>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[ACLU-NJ Scorecard Shows Mixed Civil Liberties Records]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2017/10/19/aclu-nj-scorecard-shows-mixed-civil-liberties-records</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Did your lawmakers vote for liberty? Find out with ACLU-NJ’s 2017 legislative scorecard.]]></description>
                    <author>apeltzman@aclu-nj.org</author>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:42:37 -0400</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Transparency Victory: NJ Supreme Court Largely Sides with Police Accountability]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2017/07/11/transparency-victory-nj-supreme-court-largely-sides-police-a</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[The ACLU-NJ cheered a unanimous decision that the New Jersey Supreme Court issued today concerning police accountability in North Jersey Media Group v. Lyndhurst, a pivotal case that will play a large role in shaping police transparency in New Jersey.]]></description>
                    <author>emckinley@aclu-nj.org</author>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 03:03:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Judge Orders Middlesex County to Release Civil Forfeiture Records]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2017/02/24/judge-orders-middlesex-county-release-civil-forfeiture-recor</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[NEW BRUNSWICK – The ACLU of New Jersey won a victory today when a Superior Court judge ruled that Middlesex County violated state transparency law by requiring a $725.85 service fee to release public records on civil asset forfeiture. The ACLU-NJ asked for records from each county to learn how much property each had seized through civil asset forfeiture. Every county but Middlesex released the records to the ACLU-NJ.]]></description>
                    <author>emckinley@aclu-nj.org</author>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[ACLU-NJ Files FOIA on Trump Immigration Ban]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2017/02/02/aclu-nj-files-foia-trump-immigration-ban</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[NEWARK, NJ — The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey filed a FOIA request (PDF) today with its local U.S. Customs and Border Protection office to expose how Trump administration officials are interpreting and executing the president’s unconstitutional immigration ban, acting in violation of federal courts that ordered a stay on the ban’s implementation. The filing today is part of a coordinated effort from 49 ACLU affiliates, which filed 18 FOIAs with CBP field offices and the agency’s headquarters, spanning 55 international airports across the country.]]></description>
                    <author>emckinley@aclu-nj.org</author>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 09:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
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