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ACLU-NJ recommends further funding for pandemic relief, rental assistance, and universal representation and calls for inclusive process in determining how cannabis community reinvestment dollars are spent.
The case, Adam X. et al. v. New Jersey Department of Corrections and Department of Education et al., was filed in January 2017. The settlement offers a national model for special education services in prison.
New Jersey advocates for immigrants’ rights came together in a virtual panel to call for lawmakers to pass the Values Act (S512/A1986), legislation that aims to end New Jersey’s participation in the federal detention and deportation machine. View the event r
Following Governor Phil Murphy’s nomination of Matthew J. Platkin as New Jersey’s next attorney general, Amol Sinha, Executive Director of the ACLU of New Jersey, issued the following statement:
The Excluded New Jerseyans Fund (ENJF) was never funded enough to reach all New Jerseyans excluded from federal pandemic relief, according to a new report by New Jersey Policy Pers
Recently, Governor Phil Murphy signed over 100 new bills into law on the first day of his second term, including S1020 and S2811.