On Tuesday, February 24, advocates will provide testimony on a bill that would ban Marylanders from being racially profiled by law enforcement and limit federal abuses by federal agents escalated by the Trump Administration

The ACLU of Maryland is deeply concerned by the federal government’s decision to purchase, at a cost of $102 million, a massive warehouse near Hagerstown, Maryland, to use as a detention facility. The purchase is part of reckless and unconscionable plan to more than double the capacity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to jail people suspected of immigration violations around the country.

We stand with the people of Minnesota. We stand with families who are grieving. And we stand with communities everywhere who are organizing, speaking out, and insisting that dignity, accountability, and justice are not optional.

Federal lawsuit alleges “lethal pattern of deliberate indifference” and “malign” tactics fueling suicides and punishing people in mental health crisis

In response to months of public opposition, the Wicomico County Executive and Sheriff abandoned their increasingly unpopular proposal to enter a 287(g) agreement with ICE.

Baltimore County signed an agreement that requires jail officials to tell federal immigration agents when anyone in custody has an ICE warrant, even if that person is about to be released, found not guilty, or has had their charges dropped.

If Wicomico County were to enter into such an agreement, the County and its taxpayers would bear the financial, economic, and social costs of a program designed to scapegoat immigrants for political gain.

Audit confirms decades-long pattern of evidence suppression by Maryland Office of Chief Medical Examiner in police killings of Anton Black, Tyrone West, and others.

After years of tireless advocacy by families, formerly incarcerated people, and community leaders, the Maryland General Assembly has passed the Second Look Act (HB 853), providing a long-overdue pathway for sentence reconsideration grounded in rehabilitation, not retribution.