The ACLU-NJ made arguments for police accountability today in North Jersey Media Group v. Lyndhurst (PDF), a pivotal case at the New Jersey Supreme Court case that could determine the future of police ...

NEWARK, N.J. - In a letter landing in mailboxes this week sent to more than 150 New Jersey Islamic leaders, organizations, refugee resettlement agencies, and student associations, the ACLU-NJ ...

ACLU-NJ names new executive director, Amol Sinha, an attorney who directed state campaigns at the Innocence Project ...

"In New Jersey you are three times more likely to be arrested and convicted for marijuana possession if you’re black than if you’re white," said Amol Sinha, the new state ACLU executive director.

Rebecca Uwakwe, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of New Jersey, leads the organization's Clemency Project. The public campaign is pressing Gov. Phil Murphy to make more use of his pardon power.

ACLU of New Jersey staff and supporters were scared too -- and then we got to work. The ACLU has spent nearly 100 years defending our fundamental rights and liberties.

The county jail in Kearny is one of four agencies in New Jersey that allows its officers to act as immigration agents, as part of ICE's 287 (g) program that has been sharply criticized by the ACLU ...

The ACLU-NJ, which advocated for the law, views the change as a success because the pretrial jail population dropped from 9,000 before the reform to just above 5,000 in 2018 and 2019.

The ACLU-NJ published the data — based on FBI crime figure — on Friday. It showed nearly 38,000 arrests for cannabis possession, distribution or both in 2017, up from about 28,000 in 2013.

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking New Jersey Department of Corrections to lift an alleged ban of a book that examines the impact of mass incarceration on people of color. According to ...