American Civil Liberties Union

No Protests at Super Bowl Time, Baby!

Better Dead Than Read?

A new crop of Miami Beach commissioners might finally lay to rest the Huber Drug Letter controversy

ACLU Stands Up For Banished Sex Offenders

After a conflict with Miami Police, the sex offenders who have been sent by the state to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway are getting some help from the American Civil Liberties Union. Yesterday the Florida branch of the ACLU delivered a letter to Miami Chief of Police John Timoney asking the ... More >>

Letter? What Letter?

Bill Clinton wants the military to stop discriminating against gays. Florida's top academic officers apparently couldn't care less.

News Roundup

The former partners at a major Miami architecture firm are accusing one founder of fraud. [Herald]Wingnuts everywhere rejoice. Miami's ACLU affiliate was forced to cut 20 percent of its staff. [Herald]Authorities rounded up 117 illegal immigrants. Only 30 had previous criminal records. [NBC6]How col ... More >>

Timoney Loses, Freedom Wins, Taxpayers Pay

Miami Police Chief John Timoney screwed up, and we taxpayers are just gonna keep paying and paying.Back in November 2003, the City of Miami shut down some protests against a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting being held here. The cops beat some protesters and illegally jailed others. Jus ... More >>

No Butts

When Cable-TAP told them to cover their asses, the Alliance Film and Video Project called the ACLU in instead

The Boulder Boys Must Die

When federal prosecutors seek the death penalty in drug-related murders, the defendants are almost always black. Why should Miami's first "kingpin" case be any exception?

D-Day

Regardless of whom you’re for, get out the vote today!

Racial-Profiling Study Liberated

Regardless of whom you’re for, get out the vote today!

The Long Silence

How did county police officials respond to a damaging report on racial profiling? They didn't

Rage Against the Machines

Like a modern version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, well-meaning people battle corrupt mechanisms only to discover that the true enemies of democracy are human.

Pro-Gay Pressure?

Divisions from within: Allies skirmish over free speech

Queer Adoption

Florida's ban on gays as adoptive foster parents is medieval

Letters from the Issue of March 7, 2002

More debate about "Strings Attached"

Letters to the Editor

Last week's cover illustration? Disgusting!

Strings Attached

Orthodox Jews in Miami Beach consider it a harmless symbol, but others believe it violates the U.S. Constitution

Multiple District Disorder

Divide North Miami and you also divide a burgeoning Haitian-American voting bloc. Was that the plan?

Shake

If it ain't your party, you better fight for your rights

It Takes a Cuban

After a legendary career as president of the Miami ACLU, John de Leon is heading even further south

We're Doing God's Work...

With just a teeny-weeny bit of help from Key Biscayne police detectives

Fair Weather Freedom Fighters

The Latin Grammys got the headlines, but brave and bruised theater director Alberto Sarraín got the honors

Frank Talk About Free Speech

Attorney Victor Diaz chats up the ACLU's Howard Simon

Cuba Ordinance 101

A New Times guide to busting the county's Cuba law

Riptide

What's a day in Miami without a bizarre twist?

It's Payback Time

Eleven years after the ACLU sued the City of Miami for harassing homeless citizens, the plaintiffs will get their cash

Street Sweepers

The City of Miami's court-approved plan to deal with the homeless is one part tough love, two parts blind hope

Foundation Follies

The Cuban American National Foundation sues its enemies again, but this time they're fighting back

Civil Wrongs

The Weed and Seed program is supposed to clean up inner-city neighborhoods. Fat chance.

The Beat Goes Off

There was Cuban music at Midem's inaugural Miami music conference, but not much -- and maybe never again

Letters

There was Cuban music at Midem's inaugural Miami music conference, but not much -- and maybe never again

Free to Speak Her Mind

There was Cuban music at Midem's inaugural Miami music conference, but not much -- and maybe never again

We Dare You to Sing

In Miami Beach, the First Amendment and a few thousand dollars will get you some "free" speech

Give It Arrest

The ACLU claims Dade County is using a temporary employment law to keep Hispanic day laborers off the job and in jail

The Seven Year Bitch

The homeless story that won't go away still won't go away

Still Homeless After All These Years

The Pottinger case returned to Judge Atkins's courtroom, and both sides came out firing

ACLU Jumps Into Michelle Spence-Jones vs. Charlie Crist Fight

​The American Civil Liberties Union has jumped into the ongoing Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones saga on behalf of five voters in her district. Just days after being re-elected in November, Spence-Jones turned herself in on charges of grand theft after accusations she stole money from t ... More >>

News Roundup: Heat Fall Below .500

A Man was shot at MIA lounge last night multiple times, while the shooter sped off in a black Mercedes. [JustNews]The ACLU claims two Miami Beach cops harassed and falsely arrested a gay tourist after he saw the men beating another suspect in handcuffs. [Herald]A man in Stuart died after being attac ... More >>

Bad Day For Miami Beach Cops: ACLU Lawsuit, Contract Fights, Accusations

Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega certainly picked a terrible day to leave the Beach for an out-of-state conference. ​First came a fiery meeting with the City Commission, when the police union decried plans to force them to help make up a city budget deficit. Then, lost amidst the sound ... More >>

Police Chief Carlos Noriega Meets With Miami Beach's Gay Leaders Over ACLU Suit, Promises Changes

Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega met with gay leaders earlier this afternoon at city hall, promising changes one week after the ACLU announced a suit charging that Beach cops regularly harass gay men in Flamingo Park. ​Noriega stressed that the two officers at the center of the ACLU sui ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror becomes state policy, thanks to Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce and Gov. Jan Brewer

Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega met with gay leaders earlier this afternoon at city hall, promising changes one week after the ACLU announced a suit charging that Beach cops regularly harass gay men in Flamingo Park. ​Noriega stressed that the two officers at the center of the ACLU sui ... More >>

Taser-toting police zap animals and grannies

Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega met with gay leaders earlier this afternoon at city hall, promising changes one week after the ACLU announced a suit charging that Beach cops regularly harass gay men in Flamingo Park. ​Noriega stressed that the two officers at the center of the ACLU sui ... More >>

ACLU Files Suit Against Miami Beach for Wrongfully Harassing Gay Men

Police Chief Carlos Noriega​The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has moved forward on their lawsuit against the city of Miami Beach by officially filing the suit in federal court today. The complaint stems from a 2009 incident in which Harold Strickland, an openly gay former resident of t ... More >>

Jim Morrison Pardon Coming This Morning, But Local Rockers Ask Crist Not To Stop There (Update: It's Official)

No longer a suspected dong-dangler.​At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison's pardon -- which should be made official at 9 a.m. -- closes a sordid footnote in ro ... More >>

ACLU Chief Howard Simon Recalls MLK and Bloody Sunday

Photo by Jacob KatelHoward Simon​American Civil Liberties executive director Howard Simon took part in the last century's most significant freedom march with Dr. Martin Luther King. Then he was part of lawsuits that indicated our own government might have played a role in one of the civil rights m ... More >>

Mayor Bower: Miami Beach Can't Do Anything About Urban Beach Weekend

Miami Beach is largely helpless to stop Memorial Day partiers from coming to town for Urban Beach Weekend, which saw seven injured and one killed in police-related shootings this year, city Mayor Matti Herrera Bower said Tuesday afternoon. According to police, more than 400 were arrested."There is n ... More >>

Miami Beach Residents Gather To Demand an End to Urban Beach Weekend

Rich AbdillA protestor holding one of the many signs against Urban Beach Weekend.​About 200 residents gathered in front of Miami Beach City Hall Friday night to demand an end to the city's Urban Beach Weekend, which this year saw 431 arrests and two police shootings that left one man dead and four ... More >>

Miami Beach To Fire Police In Gay Harassment Case; Charges Pending to ATV Cops?

​Two Miami Beach cops accused of assaulting a gay tourist in Flamingo Park are getting pink slips -- even though prosecutors declined to file charges against them. Officers Elliut Hazzi and Frankly Forte are set to be fired, Commissioner Michael Gongora announced on his Twitter feed this afternoon ... More >>

ACLU Sues to End Rick Scott's Drug Testing Laws on Behalf of Navy Vet

​The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida filed suit yesterday to end the state's new controversial requirement that all people seeking help from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program undergo a drug test. The law was passed earlier this year at the behest of Gov.Rick Scott, but ... More >>

Occupy Miami Hip-Hop & Rock Jam Featured Black Bobby, Politics, and Poetry

​After only three nights occupying part of Miami, a committed group of activists managed to throw together quite the successful concert in under 24 hours. In order to keep the movement's momentum up in this truly offensive weather, organizers set up a covered stage outside Stephen P. Clark Govern ... More >>