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Advocates heralded a nearly 50 percent funding increase signed by Governor Murphy in the FY2020 budget for a program to provide legal counsel to immigrants detained in New Jersey facing deportation.
On June 18, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey issued an opinion affirming the powers of the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) in Newark, reversing in part a previous lower court decision.
On June 20, in a historic vote, the New Jersey Senate and Assembly voted to dramatically limit the use of solitary confinement in our state’s prisons and jails, including for immigration detainees.
On May 2, 2019, former ACLU-NJ Legal Director Ed Barocas received the ACLU-NJ's highest honor, the Roger N. Baldwin Award, given for lifetime contributions to civil liberties or an exceptional contribution to civil liberties in the United States.
The ACLU-NJ fiercely opposed passage in the New Jersey Senate and Assembly of a bill intended to force a range of social welfare advocacy organizations – including nonpartisan, issue-based organizations – to disclose their donors and nonpartisan voter education activities.