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Idaho Supreme Court Rules in Favor of ACLU in Public Defense Case
Unanimous decision sends case back to lower court for continuation
Anti-Immigrant Legislation
New immigration bill introduction in the House State Affairs Committee
ACLU of Idaho Demands Release of Documents on Implementation of Trump's Immigration Ban
ACLU of Idaho Launches Ten-language Campaign To Document Harassment And Intimidation
Information aimed at reporting bullying and attacks in Idaho communitiesBoise, ID—The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Idaho has launched a campaign in ten different languages to help Idaho families document and report incidents of harassment, bullying, and intimidation. The campaign features web-based and print information covering basics for documenting and reporting incidents of intimidation, harassment, and bullying, as well as a video captioned in the same ten languages, all of them common in Idaho: Swahili, Kinyarwanda, French, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Bosnian, English, Kirundi, and Somali. The ACLU will follow these materials with a recorded webinar on Monday, January 23, 2017, about documenting and reporting harassment, bullying and intimidation in Idaho open to families throughout Idaho.
U.S. Department of Education Finds Middleton School District’s Single-Sex Classrooms Violate Federal Law
BOISE, Idaho- The United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has found Middleton School District in violation of federal law for segregating students into single-sex classrooms at Middleton Heights Elementary School. The federal agency’s finding came in response to a complaint from the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Idaho (ACLU), documenting violations of Title IX, a federal law that prohibits gender discrimination in education, at Middleton Heights Elementary School.
ACLU, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Reach Landmark Settlement in Medicaid Class Action
More information about the settlement, including a copy of the settlement agreement itself, is available on the ACLU of Idaho website at www.acluidaho.org. The court will hold a hearing to decide whether to grant final approval to the settlement on January 12, 2017.
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