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We respect the right of all people to film and report on the actions of police and to document those actions for the general public. No one should be harassed on public streets by police just because they are filming them in action.
Today, the court denied our request for a temporary restraining order that would have ordered the Richmond Police Department (RPD) and Virginia State Police (VSP) to stop declaring “unlawful assemblies” without
The ACLU People Power Fairfax and other advocates have been asking for demographic breakouts of data for not only use of force, but other key police actions, such as arrests (by category), misdemeanors (summons and custodial arrests), stops and traffic citations.
A lawsuit was filed today on behalf of protesters and the youth activists of the Virginia Student Power Network (VSPN) against the City of Richmond, the Richmond Police Department
The ACLU of Virginia sent a notice of noncompliance yesterday to the Office of the Attorney General alleging the state’s failure to follow the settlement agreement in Whorley v.
The Northam administration’s decision announced at the end of the day today to begin enforcing the Lee Monument anti-speech regulations first proposed by former Governor McAuliffe in 2018 and made permanent in 2019 is ill-considered and deeply disturbing.