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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit civil rights organization founded in 1920. ACLU affiliates are active in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The budget of the ACLU in 2024 was $383 million. The ACLU provides legal assistance in cases where it considers civil liberties at risk.
The ACLU was more successful with an education effort; the 1952 report The Judges and the Judged, prepared at the ACLU's direction in response to the blocklisting of actress Jean Muir, described the unfair and unethical actions behind the blocklisting process, and it helped gradually turn public opinion against McCarthyism.
NAMI successfully lobbied to improve mental health services and gain equality of insurance coverage for mental illnesses. [1] In 1996, the Mental Health Parity Act was enacted into law, realizing the mental health movement's goal of equal insurance coverage. In 1955, there were 340 psychiatric hospital beds for every 100,000 US citizens.
In an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire then-Sen. Harris filled ... was obligated to defend policy while she “worked behind the scenes ... addiction as a public health issue, focusing ...
The 68-page federal lawsuit brought by Disability Rights Rhode Island, the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, and the New York advocacy group Children’s Rights is intended to force ...
O'Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563 (1975), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in mental health law ruling that a state cannot constitutionally confine a non-dangerous individual who is capable of surviving safely in freedom by themselves or with the help of willing and responsible family members or friends.
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The ACLU – through lawyers Lisa Holley, Lynette Labinger and Sonja Deyoe – faults the state’s arguments as illogical, arguing that, in practice, that reading of the law would waste resources ...