PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 16 -- The American Civil Liberties Union, a 501(c)3 non-profit that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Rhode Island, and lawyers from the firm Morgan Lewis filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the local ICE field office, a  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 12 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release on May 11: The ACLU of Rhode Island announced a favorable settlement in its third, and latest, class-action lawsuit against the R.I. Department of Human Services related to the state's UHIP computer system. This suit, filed last December in U.S. District Court by ACLU cooperating attorneys Ellen Saideman and Lynette Labinger, had challenged the adequacy of notices sent by the  more