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WASHINGTON, DC March 29, 2011 – Alarmed by news of proposed federal budget cuts that would effectively defund vital government transparency programs and websites like USASpending.gov, Data.gov and the IT Dashboard, the Sunlight Foundation issued an o...

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JACKSON, MS, March 28, 2011 – Overly harsh and punitive sentences for low-level, non-violent drug crimes feed a racially discriminatory criminal justice system in Mississippi that fails to protect the public's safety, according to a new report releas...

WASHINGTON, March 28, 2011 - Today the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) released two documents to address the wildland fire management challenges across America -- A National Cohesive Wildland Fir...

WASHINGTON March 28, 2011 – The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, which has been charged by President Obama with developing a restoration strategy for the gulf, recently announced the availability of a toll-free number for individuals who ...

NEW YORK, March 28, 2011 - The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Michigan and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri sent letters to public high schools today demanding that the schools stop viewpoint-based censorship of web content geared t...

Washington, DC March 28, 2011 — After it shut down its joint program with industry promoting use of coal ash in commercial, agricultural and consumer products last summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continues to push reuse of coal ash, ...

WASHINGTON, March 28 2011 – At a hearing today before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, American Civil Liberties Union of Florida client Robert Cote testified about his wife Rita Cote's unlawful detention by local law enforcement who dem...

MONTGOMERY, AL, March 28, 2011 - The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Alabama today filed a federal class action lawsuit charging that a state policy requiring prisoners with HIV be segregated from the rest of the state's prison populatio...

March 28, 2011 – The Pentagon agency responsible for finding ways to protect soldiers from roadside bombs has spent $17 billion so far but still hasn't delivered a credible defense, a joint investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and McClatc...