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  2. American Civil Liberties Union - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. History of the American Civil Liberties Union - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Deinstitutionalization in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. KFile: Harris told ACLU in 2019 she supports cuts to ICE ...

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    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 ...

  6. 'This is inhumane': ACLU, parents slam RI youth mental health ...

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    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 ...

  7. O'Connor v. Donaldson - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of political action committees - Wikipedia

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    America’s Health Insurance Plans PAC (AHIP PAC) – Washington, D.C. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance PAC – Springfield, MA; MetLife Employee Political Participation Fund – New York, NY; National Association of Health Underwriters PAC (HUPAC) – Arlington, VA; New York Life Insurance Company PAC – New York, NY; USAA Employees PAC ...

  9. Will the man who inspired Mario's Law win early parole? Why ...

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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 ...