Donna Lieberman

Mayor Bloomberg on Post-Boston Security: "You're Never Going to Know Where All Our Cameras Are"

Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly delivered a press conference at City Hall this afternoon, revealing information about the Boston bombers' plans to come to New York City. Upon earlier information and belief, Dzhokar Tsarnaev said he had planned to come to New York to "party," but Bl ... More >>

NYCLU Files Lawsuit Against State Over DOC's Solitary Confinement Policies

The New York Civil Liberties Union yesterday filed a lawsuit in federal court charging New York State prison officials with overseeing policies that lead to the "arbitrary and unjustified use" of solitary confinement for prison inmates.The plaintiff in the lawsuit, Leroy Peoples, spent more than two ... More >>

City Council Drills Mayor's Lawyer On NYPD Reform

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly didn't attend Wednesday's City Council hearing to discuss a raft of bills aimed at reining his department. In fact, no one from the NYPD showed up to the meeting. The only person the Bloomberg administration did send to testify on the bills was mayoral counsel Michael ... More >>

Edith Windsor, Octogenarian Lesbian Widow: Take My DOMA Case to the Supreme Court!

Edith Windsor, the octogenarian lesbian widow who successfully sued the federal government for over chariging her $363,000 in estate taxes, wants to take her case to the Supreme Court. According to a press release from the New York Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Windsor along with the ... More >>

Cuomo's Plan To Decriminalize Weed In "Public View" Has Support Of Pretty Much Everyone

As we reported earlier, Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to make possession of marijuana even less illegal than it already is -- a move that apparently has the support of just about everyone.The governor's office put out a press release this afternoon announcing Cuomo's plan to make possessing weed in "p ... More >>

NYCLU: Ray Kelly's Stop and Frisk Fixes A "Desperate Public Relations Attempt"

And the reaction to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's series of moves to address criticism of the NYPD's stop and frisk program? Well, the New York Civil Liberties Union doesn't seem too impressed, calling it a "desperate public relations attempt." "The mayor and commissioner need to give up the spi ... More >>

Scott Stringer Goes After Stop-and-Frisk, Does Not Criticize Ray Kelly In The Process

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is expected to run for mayor, pushed forward his campaign against the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policy with a press event this afternoon featuring Martin Luther King III. But as he continues his public appearances on the matter, Stringer see ... More >>

Donna Lieberman, New York Civil Liberties Union Director, on Trayvon Martin

Turmoil and tension over Trayvon Martin continues to escalate across the U.S. -- now greatly inflamed by a leaked police report -- and intense discussion of the teen's death has continued in New York. From Sean Bell to Jateik Reed to Ramarley Graham, the NYPD has long had a very strained relations ... More >>

NYCLU: Allowing Church Worship In Public Schools Violates Religious Freedom

The fight to block churches from using public school space got support today from the New York Civil Liberties Union, which says the policy is a threat to religious freedom. The Civil Liberties Union is arguing in testimony today that these kinds of arrangements between religious organizations and ... More >>

NYPD's Stolen-iPhone Sting Operation Questioned

Two weeks ago the NYPD announced that it had arrested 141 people in a city-wide sting operation directed against criminals selling stolen iPhones and iPads. Called "Operation Takeback," the sweep put undercover cops, pretending to sell cut-rate Apple gadgets, in stores and on street corners where t ... More >>

Occupy the Pulpit

Religious involvement in OWS heads upstream

Young Men's Initiative: The White Mayor's Burden

Bloomberg aims to help the young black and Latino men he has been throwing in jail for a decade

FOIL'd Again: Why Doesn't the NYPD Want You to Know Anything?

It was hard to feign much surprise last month when the New York Times slapped New York's finest with a lawsuit, accusing the department of habitually withholding information and flouting government transparency laws. In fact, as any reporter would certainly know, one of the city's toughest agencies ... More >>

The Education Emperor Wins, Kids Lose

Black gets promoted from within the mayor's own head

The NYPD Tapes, Part 2

Bed-Stuy street cops ordered: Turn this place into a ghost town

Tim Gunn Voting for Bloomberg -- Why Shouldn't You?

Photo from Project RunwayBy Jane C. TimmTim Gunn wants Mayor Mike for a third term, don't you?Bloomberg sent out a press release this morning, listing 68 gay New Yorkers who are endorsing him for a third term, including designer Isaac Mizrahi and a few politicos like Richard Socarides, a former Spec ... More >>

Judge Lippman Raps Cops on GPS Spying

For a guy whose political connections weighed heavier than his judicial experience in winning appointment as the state's top judge, Court of Appeals chief Jonathan Lippman just wrote a hell of a civil liberties decision. In a 4-3 split decision, Lippman today issued the majority opinion that found p ... More >>

Bloomberg's Cops Illegally Cuffing Kids Under 16?

New report shows New York police arresting schoolchildren for non-crimes

Ray-Gun Kelly

Stopping-and-frisking (and now tasering) his way to becoming New York's next mayor?

NYCLU Sues the NYPD On Behalf of a New York Post Reporter

NY's Highest Court Upholds Lesbian Couple's Canadian Marriage

Congestion Pricing Faces Albany Gridlock

Will Christine Quinn Stand Up to Commissioner Kelly?

Two probable mayoral candidates have some unfinished business about school thugs

President Bloomberg? Not This Bad Apple

Mayor Mike should get more heat for teaching kids to fear the police

NYCLU to Host Real ID Act Forum

I Turn My Camera On

New rules, but still no truce between filmmakers and the mayor's office

Rudy Redux

Will we get another law-and-order mayor who decides on his own what the law is?

Military Recuiters Gone Wild: Report

Excuse Me, Mr. Dunleavy, But Donna Lieberman is Not an Ass

Day of Rage

Behind the scenes of the NYPD crackdown at the GOP convention

Save the Date

His Queens wedding plans in doubt, Tauqir Zafar Rizvi waits in immigrant detention

Letter to the Editor

Target: Dissent

When cops play peacekeeper, free speech too often becomes the enemy

City May Have to Pay Protesters

A whole new spin on the cost of dissent

Bashcroft!

New Yorkers Protest the Attorney General's Tour to Promote the Patriot Act

Girls in Trouble

'Hooky Party' Puts the Spotlight on Schools' Treatment of Pregnant Teens

Don't Ask, Do Tell

Outcry Over New City Policy on Reporting the Undocumented Stuns the Mayor

Activists Push Back at NYPD

Rescuing Protest Before Bush '04

More NYPD No-Knocks

New Yorkers Tell Their Tales of Botched Raids

Hiphop Takes Stock in 'Drop the Rock'

Coalition Sets Deadline for Repealing Rockefeller Drug Laws

The Force Multipliers

NYPD to Bring Nationwide Spying Effort Home

When Peace Is a Threat

The City Labels Anti-War Marchers a Security Breach

Letters

Big Brother in Coney Island

Crime Fighting vs. Civil Liberties in Housing Projects

Spies in Blue

NY Cops Pushed Legal Limits in WEF Protests

Round Up the Unusual Suspects

A New Health-Emergency Law Raises Concerns for the Immune Compromised

Slowing the Ashcroft Act

Haste Could Lay Waste to Liberty

Abortion's New Choice

Doctors Question the Limits on RU-486

RU Pissed Off Yet?

After 10 Long Years, American Women May Finally Get the Abortion Pill—With Restrictions that Could Obliterate All It Has to Offer

No-Sex Ed

City Programs Face the Trials of Teaching Abstinence