News & Commentary
Oct 30, 2013
City Leaders Want to Expand Camera Use, Ban Gang Members
October 30, 2013. Free Times. Columbia. By Eva Moore. City leaders continue to tweak their ideas for cracking down on crime as fears mount about gangs in Five Points and citywide. But a plan to ban suspected gang members from certain parts of the city raises some concerns among civil liberties groups.
Oct 20, 2013
Richland sheriff: give Five Points pedestrian area a chance?
October 20, 2013. Columbia, SC. The State Newspaper. By John Monk. Although Five Points businesses seem to have rejected out-of-hand closing off streets to make the area a pedestrian locale on weekend nights, others say there are practical reasons for doing so.
Oct 10, 2013
Tuesday’s election first for Rock Hill under voter photo ID law
October 10, 2013. Rock Hill Herald. By Anna Douglas. Residents who want to vote in Tuesday’s Rock Hill city election will be asked to show a photo ID at the polls, but York County’s director of elections says no registered voter without the identification will be turned away.
Oct 05, 2013
ACLU: Equal justice for poor remains unfulfilled in SC municipal courts
October 5, 2013. Island Packet - Beaufort. By Tom Barton. Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark right-to-counsel decision, poor residents in many places in South Carolina -- including Beaufort County -- still are tried without a lawyer.
Sep 23, 2013
Columbia, SC, to exile its homeless
The city plans to forcibly segregate them in the same year it celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement.
Sep 17, 2013
Columbia homelessness plan draws heated criticism, threat of lawsuits
August 17, 2013. Columbia, SC. The State Newspaper. By Clif LeBlanc. Tempers are flaring as groups prepare to contest Columbia’s plan to remove homeless people from the city center, arguing it violates their constitutional rights.
Sep 17, 2013
Constitution Day is a chance to learn liberty’s lessons
September 17, 2013. Charleston. Post & Courier. By Victoria Middleton, Executive Director of the ACLU of SC. Surveys show that distressingly few people in America are able to answer basic questions about the U.S. Constitution, such as naming the three branches of government or listing their First Amendment rights.
Sep 14, 2013
Treat fellow citizens fairly
September 18, 2013. The State Newspaper. Columbia. By Victoria Middleton, Executive Director. Marriage is not about the wedding. Marriage (as anyone knows who has attempted it) involves shared values: love, but also commitment and the lifelong promise to take care of the one you love. Marriage is a basic freedom that should not be denied to anyone. And a nationwide patchwork of laws, which is what the United States looks like following court rulings striking down marriage bans, unfairly limits the freedom of many people in our state.
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