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Thursday, January 5, 2012
At a press conference in Olympia, Governor Chris Gregoire issued a heart-felt endorsement of civil marriage for same-sex couples. The Governor talked of the need for state law to recognize the "love, commitment, partnership, and responsibility" of lesbian and gay couples.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Gordon Hirabayashi was a senior at University of Washington when bombs fell at Pearl Harbor. Like 112,000 of his fellow Japanese Americans, he would be placed under curfew, ordered into internment, and finally jailed for defying those orders. Forty years later, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated his conviction. On Monday, Hirabayashi died at the age of 93. We here at the ACLU of Washington honor his memory.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
By the time they’re 23 years old, between 30 and 41 percent of Americans have been arrested, according to a study recently released by the journal Pediatrics.  This number has sharply increased in recent decades; in the mid-1960s, only 22 percent of Americans reported having been arrested by the time they turned 23.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The ACLU of Washington and 34 civil rights and community groups are urging Mayor McGinn to embrace the recommendations of the Department of Justice report on excessive use of force by the Seattle Police Department and to include community organizations in discussions to formulate solutions to the longstanding problems pinpointed by the report.  
News Release, Published: 
Friday, December 16, 2011
The in-depth report by the Department of Justice confirms what many people of color and others have experienced – that the Seattle Police Department has engaged in a pattern and practice of excessive use of force. The report documents in detail the concerns that led the ACLU and 34 other community organizations in December 2010 to request that the DOJ conduct this investigation.
Published: 
Friday, December 16, 2011
I returned, very happily, from the Department of Justice press conference this morning. The DOJ’s in-depth report confirms what the ACLU has been saying and what many people of color and others have experienced – that the Seattle Police Department has engaged in a pattern and practice of excessive use of force.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Teen marijuana usage rates have risen slightly in recent years, while tobacco and alcohol usage rates have declined. Alarmingly, 12th-graders across the nation and in Washington state are now more likely to have used marijuana in the past 30 days than to have smoked a cigarette.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Washington Department of Transportation announced today that tolling will start on the SR 520 bridge on December 29. This will be Washington’s first all-electronic toll bridge—meaning there will be no toll booths—and by far the highest volume all-electronic toll facilities in the country. There are lots of advantages to eliminating toll booths (e.g., less congestion, greater safety), but there are also drawbacks, potentially including a loss of privacy. 
Published: 
Monday, December 5, 2011
Gov. Chris Gregoire and a group of farm-group representatives recently made headlines when they returned from Washington D.C., where they had sought to persuade Congress to oppose a bill requiring employers to use a system called E-Verify.  In stern words, Gov. Gregoire criticized the measure and its likely detrimental effect on our state’s agriculture industry. 
Published: 
Friday, December 2, 2011
With many public schools becoming re-segregated, two federal agencies provide a roadmap for designing voluntary programs that will benefit all students by promoting diversity and preventing racial isolation.
Published: 
Friday, December 2, 2011
With many public schools becoming re-segregated, two federal agencies provide a roadmap for designing voluntary programs that will benefit all students by promoting diversity and preventing racial isolation.

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