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Collins et al. v. The City of Milwaukee et al.  

As statewide membership doubles, civil liberties organization brings the national experience of a Wisconsin native to its statewide office in Milwaukee.  

ACLU Condemns Group Insurance Board’s Decision to Capitulate to Effort to Reinstate Anti-Transgender Health Care Exclusion

MILWAUKEE- The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin affirms the vital need for transparency in the investigation of the June 23rd shooting of Jay Anderson by a Wauwatosa police officer.  ACLU Executive Director Chris Ahmuty issued the following statement:

Since the beginning of 2015, police in Wisconsin have killed 30 people, according to one media database. In Madison, Neenah, Eau Claire, Wausau, East Troy, Wauwatosa and Milwaukee, officers have used their power to its ultimate extent.

  There are many ways to register: You can register with a special registration deputy (until Oct. 19); You can register by mail (until Oct. 19) (here’s the form: http://www.gab.wi.gov/sites/default/files/gab_forms/4/gab_131_voter_registration_application_2014_05_p_12763.pdf ); You can register at the Municipal Clerk’s office or your early voting site  until the Friday before an election (Nov. 4); You can register at the polls on Election Day   To register, if you have a current, valid Wisconsin driver’s license you need to put the license number on the voter registration form. If you have a valid license but don’t know the number, get it from the DMV by calling 608-266-2353. If you don’t have a license, YOU STILL CAN REGISTER.

The ACLU of Wisconsin sent the below comments to Attorney General Lynch, Deputy Attorney General Yates, and Assistant Attorney General Mason regarding the Proposed Implementation of Deaths In Custody Reporting Act (DICRA):

The district court found that in Lambda Legal's case Torres v. Seemeyer (which sought two-parent birth certificates for the marital children of same-sex spouses in Wisconsin) that at least those couples who used assisted insemination can get two-parent birth certificates.  They asked us to share the below information as well.

Twenty-eight community organizations signed on to the following letter to Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton, Public Safety Committee Chair Donovan, and the rest of Milwaukee's Common Council, expressing serious problems with the recently released draft “Public Safety Action Plan.”