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Treatment programs can arrest root causes

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Too many people with mental illness and addictions end up behind bars. This isn't good for them, and it hasn't made the public any safer.
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ACLU of Washington Launches Secure Communication Tool

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Monday, December 21, 2015
Most of us use cell phones and email every day. As our communications make their way from sender to recipient, they expose information about their contents and our interactions with others. The technologies we rely on thus come with inherent risks to our privacy and security. Thanks to disclosures made by whistleblower Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies, we have a better sense of the extent to which surveillance pervades American life.
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Groups Are Concerned Walgreens's Collaboration With Religious Health Provider Will Limit Consumer Access To Important Medical Services

News Release, Published: 
Friday, December 18, 2015
The ACLU-WA and 18 allies are seeking assurances that religious doctrine won’t restrict consumers’ access to medical services at new Walgreens’s clinics.
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For mental illness, community resources are more effective than jail

Published: 
Friday, December 18, 2015
Too many people with a mental illness end up in jail or hospital emergency rooms. What is meant to be a last resort is often the first stop for people struggling with a mental illness.
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Keeping Young People Sober and Healthy Starts by Keeping Them out of Jail

Published: 
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
When a juvenile is caught using or sharing an illegal drug, what is the appropriate community response? Should he or she be arrested and charged with a crime, or should he or she receive public health services?
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Insurer Agrees to Cover Transgender Health Services

News Release, Published: 
Monday, November 23, 2015
A private health plan has agreed to cover medically necessary health care for transgender people. Action came after a Seattle man represented by the ACLU challenged the plan’s denial of coverage for routine laboratory tests. (Client Anthony Bopp pictured)
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Jailing Kids? We can do better

Published: 
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
On any given day, more than 60,000 children are locked up in our nation’s juvenile facilities. Whether it’s an urban jail or a rural boot camp, the results are the same. Youth locked up in secure facilities experience more mental problems, achieve a lower level of education, and make less money over their lifetimes. Research also indicates that the detention experience may increase the chances of re-offending.
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ACLU of Washington’s SecureDrop Risk Analysis

Published: 
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Not everyone is Edward Snowden and needs to go to extraordinary lengths to anonymously provide documents. However, if the Snowden revelations have shown us anything, it is that we face an extraordinary amount of surveillance with all forms of communication technologies. It is important to consider this in light of your own risk assessment when using the ACLU of Washington’s SecureDrop server.
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How to communicate securely with the ACLU of Washington using SecureDrop

Published: 
Thursday, November 12, 2015
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