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On Wednesday, Oct. 28, the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Nassau County Chapter and Hofstra University will host hundreds of local high school students at a biennial conference in Hempstead on the importance of civil rights and liberties.

Mayor Bloomberg's got a camera fetish. He must - how else do you explain the blank check to blanket New York with enough surveillance cameras to track millions of us going to work, taking our kids to school or stopping into a corner store?

Tomorrow night, the families of hate violence victims Jack Price and Jose Sucuzhanay will join members of the LGBTQ and immigrant communities in Queens for a community forum and dialogue on combating and responding to recent hate violence in New York City.

A federal court today ruled that the government can continue to enforce a five-year-old gag order on an Internet service provider (ISP) that the FBI served with a national security letter (NSL) many years ago.

This week, the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Western Regional Office will visit public high schools in the Buffalo area to inform students of their rights regarding military recruitment at school.

The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit challenging the City of Saratoga Springs’ refusal to disclose public records concerning its Police Department’s use of Tasers.

The New York Civil Liberties Union today urged the New York State Department of Health to withdraw its mandate that all health care workers be vaccinated against both the seasonal flu and the swine flu because it violates the right to privacy of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. The NYCLU instead urged the state to take strong public education steps and adopt a voluntary vaccine protocol.

This week, the New York Civil Liberties Union and its partners in the Students or Soldiers? Coalition will visit public high schools in all five boroughs to inform students of their rights regarding military recruitment at school.

The New York Civil Liberties Union today called on the NYPD to provide the public with basic details of its multi-million dollar plan to blanket Midtown with a computerized network of surveillance cameras and license plate readers – a massive expansion of the “Ring of Steel” surveillance system being developed in lower Manhattan.