The fall edition of our newsletter includes: Proposed Anti-Panhandling Ordinance Raises Constitutional Concerns; Utah Fusion Center: Trading Privacy for Security; Immigrants’ Rights are Your Rights, too!; Reforming Indigent Defense in Utah; Beyond the Division; ACLU Challenges Patents on Breast Cancer Genes; Staff Changes at the ACLU of Utah; Shackling Pregnant Inmates: “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”; End Invasive Body Scans at Airport; and more! ACLU of Utah Newsletter 2009

In This Edition: Rachel Maddow to Headline 2009 Bill of Rights Dinner; Indigent Defense in Utah Investigated; Join the ACLU of Utah at Plan B’s Block 8; Challenging the Detention of Immigrant Children; Four New Members Add Diversity and Experience to Board of Directors; Welcome to Barbara Szweda; Why Immigration? And more! Read the Newsletter (PDF) >>   

In this Issue: Discriminatory Workers Compensation Proposal Raises Concerns • Welcome to William Carlson, Our New Public Policy Advocate! • Immigration Hearing Offers One Sided Perspective• Controversial Provo Ordinance Proposal Draws ACLU Ire • Empowering Voters By Protecting Elections • Learning and Lobbying at the ACLU Membership Conference • Protecting Rights of Transgender Inmates ... and more. Read the Newsletter (PDF) >>

Inside this issue: ACLU Forum: Domestic Partnership Benefits for City Employees; Divine Design; ACLU of Utah Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of Transgender Employee; Frequently Asked Questions on Student Privacy, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and the No Child Left Behind Act; ACLU of Utah Joins Lawsuit Challenging Raids of Concerts and Violation of Free Speech; Utah State Tax Commission Approves Personalized License Plates with Gay-Positive Messages; From Our National Office; ACLU of Utah Membership Business; About the ACLU of Utah