Detroit, Michigan — The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan blasted a Michigan Supreme ruling today, which upheld a lower court’s decision that Proposal 2, passed by Michigan voters in 2004, prohibits public employers from offering domestic partner benefits. The majority opinion was written by Justice Steven Markman,which was joined by four other justices with [...] ...

Memphis TN - Hillis F. Price Middle College High School. In September, 2207 Principal Daphne Beasley demanded a list of student “couples” from her faculty in an effort to curb PDA (public display of affection) within the school. The demand asking for the names of all couples “hetersexual and homo” came via the school’s intercom system. When the list was compiled, Principal Beasley published the list in her office for all to see who entered her office. Nicholas, a male student was among the names listed on the Principal’s list. He was listed along with another male, Andrew, as the two ...

Source: WMLT-TV ABC24 , AP via Tenneseean , NBC News via WCSH Memphis, TN - At Monday night's Memphis School Board meeting, a small but vocal group of parents and community members gathered in the back of the auditorium waiting to speak their minds about a high school principal who outed two gay students at her school. "I'm disgusted," Memphis parent Natasha Burnett told WMLT's Eyewitness News Everywhere . "I'm disgusted by it." A letter from the American Civil Liberties Union that was made public last week accuses staff at Hollis F. Price Middle College High...(read more) ...

The principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School in Memphis, TN, is being accused of outing a young gay couple at the school by putting their names on a list for everybody to see. The American Civil Liberties Union ((ACLU) says principal Daphne Beasley in September 2007 asked her staff to give her the names of students who were couples, heterosexual and homosexual, because she wanted to keep an eye on them to cut down on public displays of affection. Among the students on the list were two boys, Andrew and Nicholas, who had just started dating ...

The New York Civil Liberties Union has just released a report that exposes racist inconsistencies in the NYPD's draconian marijuana enforcement policies:Between 1997 and 2007, police arrested and jailed about 205,000 blacks, 122,000 Latinos and 59,000 whites for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Blacks accounted for about 52 percent of the arrests, though they represented only 26 percent of the city’s population over that time span. Latinos accounted for 31 percent of the arrests but 27 percent of the population. Whites represented only 15 percent of those arrested, despite comprising 35 percent of the population.Government surveys of high ...

Source: WPTY TV , ACLU press release MEMPHIS, TN -- A Memphis high school principal who "outed" two gay high school students in September 2007 violated the students' constitutional right to freedom of association, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today. The ACLU said Daphne Beasley, the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School, publicly told teachers and staff over the school's intercom system that she wanted the names of all student couples, "hetero and homo," because she wanted to monitor them personally to prevent students from engaging in...(read more) ...

MEMPHIS – A public high school principal who posted the names of two boys on a list of students believed to be couples, revealing their relationship to their parents as well as other students and teachers, violated the students’ constitutional right to freedom of association, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today. In a letter [...] ...