Baltimore is asking a federal appellate court to affirm the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging its policy of including non-disparagement clauses in police misconduct settlements, arguing the clause in question did not violate a woman’s free speech rights. The ACLU ...

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A transgender student in Talbot County will have access to boys' locker room facilities after settling a federal lawsuit with the school board.

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Maryland prison officials Monday they are rescinding a new policy restricting inmate access to books less than two weeks after the ACLU of Maryland raised objections to the plan.

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A Wicomico County judge will allow a Maryland Public Information Act lawsuit to go forward after denying Salisbury's motion to dismiss which claimed the city did not possess the requested records about a 2016 excessive force lawsuit settlement and any records would be privileged.

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Community outreach and policy advocate Dana Vickers Shelley will become the new executive director of the ACLU of Maryland, the organization announced Thursday.

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Gov. Larry Hogan has settled a lawsuit with four residents who claimed the governor's social media policies violated their First Amendment rights.

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Two bills pending in the General Assembly banning cyberbullying and revenge porn have broad support but have been opposed by the ACLU of Maryland over First Amendment concerns.

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Two brothers arrested protesting near the Maryland State House have filed a lawsuit against the Maryland Capitol Police and the officer who arrested them.

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Susan Goering knew she wanted to be a civil rights attorney when she heard Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech from her porch as a sixth grader in Kansas. Fifty-five years later, Goering will be retiring as ...

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The plaintiffs challenging Baltimore’s policy of including non-disparagement clauses in police misconduct settlements are appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis ruled last month the clauses do not violate free-speech and free-press rights, ...

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