SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Spokane has officially denied a request to throw out a lawsuit against two psychologists who helped design the CIA's harsh interrogation program used in the war on terror.
In his written order on Monday, Judge Justin Quackenbush said a jury will hear the lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of three former detainees...
SEATTLE (AP) — A lawsuit from the Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union accuses the state of failing to ensure that students with behavioral disabilities get an education instead of just kicked out of school.
The complaint, filed Thursday in Thurston County Superior Court, says the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction has a duty to ensure that all children re
SEATTLE (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is suing the state's Office of Public Defense, accusing it of failing to ensure that children in Grays Harbor County get adequate legal help when they're charged with crimes.
The lawsuit is the second recent case in which the ACLU has objected to the treatment of juveniles in the county on Washington's Pacific coast...
BELLINGHAM (AP) — A sheriff's search warrant in northwestern Washington that sought private Facebook data as part of an investigation into a Dakota Access oil pipeline protest has been withdrawn after an American Civil Liberties Union challenge...
BELLINGHAM (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a sheriff's search warrant in northwestern Washington that seeks private Facebook data as part of an investigation into a Dakota Access oil pipeline protest.
The ACLU in Seattle filed the motion Wednesday to quash the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office warrant for private messages and other data on the Bellingham #NoDAPL Coalition F
SEATTLE (AP) — A new report from the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union says the most commonly charged crime in Washington state shouldn't be a crime at all.
The ACLU of Washington report says taxpayers spend tens of millions of dollars a year prosecuting cases of third-degree driving with a suspended license, convicting people nearly 900,000 times since the Legislature made it a
SPOKANE (AP) — Attorneys for the U.S. government have until March 8 to decide whether they will keep some records secret about the relationship between the CIA and two psychologists from Spokane hired to develop harsh interrogation methods in the war on terror...
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington state says that just after it sued Grays Harbor County for records related to juvenile detention, the county agreed to produce 2,300 pages.
The organization began filing public records requests in May, following reports that a 15-year-old boy was placed in solitary confinement for eight days...