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National Sign-On Letter Supporting Syringe Exchange Programs (07/30/2008)
We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to express our sincere thanks and support for your efforts to combat the HIV/AIDS and hepatitis epidemic through introduction of the Community AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Act of 2008. Providing sterile syringes is a simple, cost-effective method of saving lives.

ACLU Letter Urging Senators to Support S. 1711, the Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act of 2007 (02/04/2008)

ACLU Open Letter to the United States Congress (10/02/2007)

ACLU Letter to Honorable Jose E. Serrano and Honorable Ralph Regula Regarding Ineffective ONDCP Ad Campaign in Financial Services Appropriations Bill Funding (06/05/2007)
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, a non-partisan organization with hundreds of thousands of members and 53 affiliates nationwide, we write to express our serious concern with the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s (ONDCP) National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. The Campaign—widely regarded as ineffective, wasteful and at times misleading—is yet another wrongheaded tactic in the war on drugs. The Campaign has cost taxpayers more that $1.5 billion since created, and the only demonstrable effect on its target audience runs contrary to the Campaign’s supposed goals. In fact, studies have found that the Ad Campaign might actually increase teen drug use. The FY08 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill will be marked up today in the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. We urge you to eliminate funding for ONDCP’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.

ACLU Comments to the United States Sentencing Commission on Crack/Powder Disparity (03/16/2007)

Coalition Sign-On Letter Supporting the Elimination of Barriers for Katrina Victims (10/26/2005)

Coalition Letter to the House of Representatives In Support of "No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2005" (05/25/2005)

Letter to the House Regarding HR 4700, the Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2002 (05/14/2002)

Letter to HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson Regarding TANF Program (11/30/2001)

Letter to the Senate in Opposition to Anti-Democracy Riders to the DC Appropriations Bill (10/25/2001)

Letter to Senators Hatch and Leahy on Opposition to S. 304, the "Drug Abuse Education, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2001" (06/29/2001)

Comparison of Methamphetamine and Drug Bills (01/31/2000)

Letter to the Senate Regarding the Hatch Drug Amendment to S. 625, the "Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999" (11/08/1999)