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The following statement can be attributed to ACLU of New Mexico Legal director Leon Howard.
Today, the ACLU of New Mexico and cooperating attorney Corinne Holt of Will Ferguson & Associates filed a lawsuit in the Second Judicial District Court on behalf of Jane Doe,* an incarcerated woman who was raped and impregnated by a former correctional officer.
Today, the City of Sunland Park and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico jointly announced that they had reached a resolution in a police profiling lawsuit filed on behalf of Las Cruces resident Oscar Gutiérrez Sánchez.
Today, the ACLU of New Mexico and cooperating attorney Mark Chaiken of Virtue & Najjar, PC filed a lawsuit in the First Judicial District Court on behalf of Diane Roberts, a transgender woman who was discriminated against, harassed, and ultimately fired by her employer.
Today, in the wake of a recent move by the Census Bureau to seek driver’s license records from state motor vehicle divisions in order to collect data on citizenship status, the ACLU of New Mexico and Somos un Pueblo Unido called on Governor Lujan Grisham to protect New Mexicans’ privacy.
Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Bureau on behalf of Muhammad “Nadeem” Kahn, a Pakistani Muslim man who was subjected to harassment, threats, and discrimination while praying at his son’s grave.