What is the ACLU-WA doing to curtail government spying without suspicion?

LITIGATION

The ACLU is challenging unwarranted surveillance of individuals’ First Amendment free speech activities as well as unjustified restrictions on demonstrations in McCarthy v. Barrett.   

 

The ACLU is challenging the pre-textual stop of and arrest of a young man on his way to an anti-war protest who was pulled over after his car was identified as carrying “three identified anarchists” in Chinn v. Blankenship

 

PUBLIC AWARENESS 

The ACLU has filed numerous Freedom of Information Act and Public Records Act Requests in an effort to learn more about government surveillance and intelligence fusion in Washington State.  To date, we have obtained numerous documents  that reveal unwarranted surveillance without suspicion.

LEGISLATION

The ACLU has worked with policy makers to draft legislation that would protect individuals from being the target of surveillance on the basis of their political, social or religious beliefs.  Learn more about HB 2798/SB 6432 and the need for federal reform.