Security v. Civil Liberties

There has never been a more urgent need to restore individual freedoms, due process rights, and our system of checks and balances. The ACLU is working to stop physical and psychological abuse of detainees, and is committed to protecting Americans’ First Amendment rights—representing individuals who have been targeted for exercising their constitutionally protected freedom to dissent, and challenging the government’s exclusion of foreign scholars denied U.S. visas because of their political views. We’re also working to stop the denial of detainees’ essential due process rights in prisons like Guantanamo Bay and other U.S. run detention facilities all over the world. The ACLU of Colorado has been involved in cases regarding reports of telephone companies voluntarily divulging private phone records to the National Security Agency, and challenged Colorado’s regulations that provided that the State could cancel a permit for a rally whenever the Department of Homeland Security declared a state of heightened alert.