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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has launched a new kind of raid at workplaces – the virtual kind.

There is a lawsuit pending in Oklahoma against the Abercromibe & Fitch because it is possible that the company denied employment to a 19 year old muslim woman who, consiste

I'll be speaking at the Common Ground fair tomorrow morning at 11 am.  The Hot Topics in

Today and tomorrow the City of Pittsburgh hosts the G-20 summit.  There, the

It's nice to live in a state that outlawed the death penalty in 1887.  But it's dumbfounding that our nation still keeps company with China, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Sudan in carrying out the most

The Kennebec Journal reported today that the Maine Department of Education's plan to request social security numbers from all students has been put on hold for a year (the article includes a quote from me suggesting the plan should be put on hold permanently).  The ACLU of MAINE lobbied against this proposal in the statehouse last year, and we suceeded in making sure that the Department will warn parents about the personal privacy risks associated with misuse and overuse of social security numbers.  And, as school started (when we thought this program was about to begin), we issued a privacy alert to parents, reminding them that they were under no obligation to turn over social security numbers for their children.  We're going to take advantage of this additional year to continue to educate parents and the public.  It is wrong to discriminate against students who don't have social security numbers, and it is dangerous for too many people to have access to private personal data about us.

How much have you heard about women in the healthcare debate?

There isn’t much I can add to this letter to the editor on marriage equality in the Press Herald by Chris