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Yesterday, Sandoval County attorney Robin S. Hammer asked a judge to order its detention center to release all people who are incarcerated for nonviolent and misdemeanor offenses and to decline to book anyone else on those charges.
Yesterday, the Albuquerque City Council voted to pass legislation broadening the mayor’s powers during a public health emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Below is a comment from Peter Simonson, executive director of the ACLU of New Mexico.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico and civil rights law firm Kennedy Kennedy & Ives announced that they had reached a 4 million dollar settlement with Bernalillo County on behalf of the family of Elisha Lucero.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico filed a lawsuit against a New Mexico State Police (NMSP) officer and the New Mexico Department of Public Safety, alleging that NMSP officer Sondre Loberg used excessive force against Dam
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico and the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office reached a settlement last week in a police-profiling case filed by the ACLU on behalf of Federal Agent Sherese Crawford in December, 2017.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Today, Somos Un Pueblo Unido and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico released a report detailing state agencies’ disclosure of New Mexicans’ sensitive personal information to the United States Department of Homeland Security, including Immigration and Customs