The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah and the national office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in the case of Utah v.
This case involved a lawsuit filed against agents and officials from the Utah Division of Adult Probation & Parole (AP&P) and the Utah Department of
Corrections over actions taken during a violent raid against a Salt Lake City family in August 2018.
We sued the Murray City Police Department on behalf of Donna Miller, a 62-year-old Black woman, after police wrongly arrested and prosecuted her for driving under the influence of an illegal substance.
Our lawsuit to block Utah's 18-week abortion ban is currently on hold while the Supreme Court considers the Jackson Women's Health decision regarding Mississippi's 15-week ban. While we wait, abortion healthcare is still safe, legal, and available in Utah.
After Davis County rebuffed our multiple requests to obtain the standards and audits for its county jail, we joined with the Disability Law Center to file a lawsuit to force the county to turn over these records.
On May 16, 2018 the ACLU of Utah filed a lawsuit on behalf of Dustin Porter and Steven Drollette (“Plaintiffs”) seeking damages and injunctive relief for a pattern of severe cruelty against them while they were incarcerated at the Daggett County Jail.