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A Nassau County Supreme Court has upheld the county’s trans sports ban.

The ruling flies in the face of state law, which makes clear that that Nassau’s ban is discriminatory. Despite this setback, we'll keep fighting to ensure trans girls and women can play sports freely, just like everyone else.

Out: Banning books 😒
In: Reading banned books 😇

Today, New York City and the NYPD will enter into phase two of the Payne settlement, the 2023 landmark agreement reforming the NYPD’s protest policing reached with the NYCLU, @legalaidnyc.bsky.social, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social, and others.⁠

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Judge excoriates Trump in blistering decision calling efforts to deport pro-Palestinian academics illegal The Reagan-appointed judge decried Trump’s “great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.”

Good.

Judge Young is right: No one should fear that they could be seized by ICE agents for their political expression.

The First Amendment protects ALL of us, no matter our citizenship status.

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

These ICE agents are acting like the law doesn’t apply to them. But the First Amendment gives the public and press the right to observe, document, and share information about ICE’s conduct.

This abusive treatment of New Yorkers cannot continue or become normalized.

For ICE to subject our client or anyone else to prolonged detention without any justification is a blatant violation of the constitutional rights afforded to every person in this country.

We'll see you in court.

CURB the NYPD’s Abuse of Protesters Please take action!

The NYPD's SRG has brutalized protesters, violated First Amendment rights, and operated with impunity for far too long.

With First Amendment rights under attack across the country, now is the time to pass the CURB Act and safeguard New Yorkers' right to protest.

Add your name:

Recently, Border Czar Tom Homan stated he would “flood the zone” in New York with ICE agents because of "high crime rates" - but crime in NYC is at historic lows.⁠
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The real threat facing New Yorkers is ICE’s attacks on our communities and our rights.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch promised to strengthen discipline, embrace accountability, and ensure that officers who engage in misconduct face consequences.

But at the first opportunity to follow through on this promise, Tisch has let NYers down.
www.nyclu.org/why-we-shoul...

Protect Abortion and Gender Affirming Care Please take action!

We're calling on @governor.ny.gov to sign three bills that will

✔️ Safeguard our personal health data
✔️ Close gaps in our shield laws to protect providers + anyone who receives or supports abortion or gender-affirming care in NY
✔️ Help people find out where to access care

There's no time to waste:

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans

Good.

Trump can't invoke a wartime act - one with a deeply shameful place in history - to prop up his reprehensible mass deportation agenda.

This is a win for our constitutional rights.

School is back in session.

In New York, everyone between the ages of five to 21 years old has the right to a free K-12 public education, no matter their immigration status. Make sure you know your rights (or your child's rights) in school:
www.nyclu.org/resources/kn...

N.Y.P.D. ‘Quality-of-Life’ Teams Are Expanding. Not Everyone Is Happy.

The NYPD's so-called "quality of life" teams are reminiscent of Giuliani-era policing that resulted in more police harassment and profiling of poor people and people of color.

New Yorkers don't want broken windows policing under another name

Mayor Adams, Gov. Hochul push back against Trump’s threat to send National Guard to NYC The president announced on Monday he put the Washington, D.C. police department under federal control to “take our capital back,” and then said he’d also “look at other citi…

Good. Trump deploying the National Guard to NYC would be a blatant abuse of power.

Engineering falsehoods that New York City is in turmoil and sending in military troops is fascism in action.

The "choice" between self-deportation, or being separated from your child, is no choice at all.

The Trump administration's cruelty towards immigrants is upending communities and traumatizing families. No one should be treated like this.

Protect Gender-Affirming Care Please take action!

To support trans people, and their right to access gender-affirming care in New York, there is more Gov. Hochul must do.

There are three bills awaiting her signature that would help ensure gender-affirming care remains available and accessible in New York. Add your name to urger her to sign:

The New York Health Information Privacy Act Would Stop Companies from Weaponizing our Health Info

Despite the rapidly growing databases of electronic health information, our current health privacy protections leave much of our information vulnerable to exploitation.

Our health is deeply personal. It’s in all of our interests to work to restore control over the privacy of our health data:

Trump’s Immigrant Crackdown in New York: More Arrests, Longer Detention

📣 New data shows that half of ICE arrests in NYC since Trump took office are at courthouses.

This means that mandatory immigration proceedings — where noncitizens are entitled to pursue safety and relief — have been transformed into yet another weapon of the Trump admin's mass deportation agenda.

New York Groups Challenge ICE's Courthouse Arrests - City Limits The Trump administration’s tactics “discourage people from attending court or from feeling safe in court, where folks are simply seeking to access the process that is accorded to them,” said Bobby Hod...

Arresting people at immigration hearings will only “discourage people from attending court or from feeling safe in court, where folks are simply seeking to access the process that is accorded to them,” said Bobby Hodgson of the @nyclu.org

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Attorneys: 'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees held without charges, barred from legal access Lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order against an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades say that “Alligator Alcatraz” detainees have been barred from meeting attorneys.

We were in court yesterday fighting the unlawful detention of immigrants at the new Everglades detention center without access to legal counsel.

Everyone has a right to their day in court, especially when challenging their detention at this appalling facility.

One-on-One with Mahmoud Khalil  | American Civil Liberties Union

After 104 days in detention, Mahmoud Khalil is home.

This week, he's on At Liberty with @aclu.org and @wkamaubell.bsky.social to talk about his time in ICE custody, the importance of people power, and how he’s settling back into life in New York.

Fix the Lead Crisis in Syracuse Please take action!

There is a lead crisis in Syracuse.

More than 14,000 Syracuse homes are at high risk of harm from lead-tainted water. But even with all the mounting evidence, Syracuse hasn't done enough to address this problem.

Add your name to tell the EPA to require Syracuse to declare a lead water emergency:

Screenshot of a NYCLU-branded press release responding to the Trump administration suing New York City over its sanctuary laws.

New York City, like any local government, has no obligation to redirect its resources to take on federal immigration enforcement, let alone the cruel and lawless deportation campaign the Trump regime is waging.

@nyclu.org's full statement on the DOJ's lawsuit against NYC's sanctuary laws:

Op-Ed | You can’t look away: Witnessing ICE abuses in immigration court | amNewYork A series of young men were granted a court date by a judge, a moment of relief, only to be ambushed by a gang of ICE agents before they’d even cleared the

"In the lobby, immigrant New Yorkers enter one door for an ICE check-in while their families wait out of sight at the other end, only hoping their loved one emerges. Inside, people wait for their chance at the window to make their case."

"We’ve created a DMV of deportations." @advocate.nyc.gov

NYPD Bypassed Facial Recognition Ban to ID Pro-Palestinian Student Protester Barred from using Clearview AI, NYC police relied on a marshal in the fire department to run a search that turned up photos of the student at his high school graduation.

Yet again, the NYPD breaks its own rules to weaponize highly invasive facial recognition surveillance against New Yorkers.

The NYPD has repeatedly proven they can’t be trusted with this dangerous technology.

WIN: Our 19 year old client Oliver Mata Velazquez has been released from ICE detention. He will finally return home to his family in Buffalo after being unlawfully arrested by ICE during a court hearing. We will keep fighting ICE’s cruel, arbitrary arrests of people showing up for their hearings.

NYC Immigration Arrests Just Shot Through the Roof, New Data Shows Newly obtained federal records offer the clearest picture yet of how aggressively the Trump administration has pursued its mass deportation agenda — with a sixfold increase in arrests in early June.

"In the first 10 days of June 2025, ICE agents in NYC made 495 arrests — more than twice the arrests it made in all of June last year."

The influx of ICE agents at courthouses undermines our right to due process and traumatizes immigrant families. None of this makes New Yorkers safer.

The CCRB and the Deputy Commissioner for Trials agree that NYPD Officer Rivera committed fireable misconduct when he shot and killed Allan Feliz. Now, NYPD Commissioner Tisch wants to override the decision to fire Rivera.
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This is not justice. We call on Tisch to hold abusive officers to account.

Tell Governor Hochul to sign these bills Please take action!

This year, lawmakers in Albany passed important bills to

✍️ Strengthen abortion and gender-affirming care
✍️ Resist book bans
✍️ Keep families together
✍️ Protect checks and balances
✍️ Allow New Yorkers to die with dignity
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Use this link to urge the Governor to sign these bills without delay: