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ACLU Coalition Letter to House Judiciary Leadership Urging Them Not to Reauthorize the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (06/17/2008)
The undersigned groups urge you to not reauthorize the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program without reforming it. The program is perpetuating racial disparities, police corruption, over-incarceration and civil rights abuses. This is especially the case when it comes to the program’s funding of hundreds of regional anti-drug task forces across the country. These task forces, which have very little state or federal oversight and are prone to corruption, are at the center of some of our country’s most horrific law enforcement scandals.

ACLU Comments for Sentencing Commision (10/29/2007)
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and its hundreds of thousands of members, activists, and fifty-three affiliates nationwide, we submit these comments pursuant to the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s request for public comments, as noticed in the Federal Register in July 2007, relating to its proposed amendment to the crack sentencing guidelines. Amendment 9, which pertains to crack offenses, has the effect of lowering the guideline sentencing range for certain categories of offenses and offenders. We write in support of the Commission’s proposal that to make Amendment 9 retroactive to sentenced defendants.

Written Testimony on Law Enforcement Confidential Informant Practices by J. Patrick O'Burke, Deputy Commander, Narcotics Service, Texas Department of Public Safety, Before the House Judiciary Committee (07/19/2007)
Written testimony prepared by J. Patrick O'Burke, Deputy Commander, Narcotics Service, Texas Department of Public Safety for presentation at the Joint Oversight Hearing on Law Enforcement Confidential Informant Practices before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, and the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

Written Testimony on Law Enforcement Confidential Informant Practices by Professor Alexandra Natapoff Before the House Judiciary Committee (07/19/2007)
Written testimony prepared by Alexandra Natapoff, Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, for presentation at the Joint Oversight Hearing on Law Enforcement Confidential Informant Practices before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, and the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

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

Testimony of Jesselyn McCurdy, ACLU Legislative Counsel, At A United States Sentencing Commission Hearing On Cocaine and Sentencing Policy (11/14/2006)

Coalition Sign-On Letter to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees Regarding Mandatory Minimums for Crack Cocaine (02/16/2006)

ACLU Letter to the Senate Urging Members to Co-Sponsor the End Racial Profiling Act of 2004 (02/19/2004)

ACLU Testimony on Racial Drug Sweeps in Texas (08/15/2002)

Letter to the Senate on Legislation to Increase Law Enforcement Electronic Surveillance, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Prosecution of Juveniles in Federal Court, and to Make the Use of Encryption a Grounds for Enhancing a Criminal Penalty (10/10/2000)

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

Fax to the House Opposing the D.C. Appropriations Bill (10/14/1999)