ACLU THE DEBRIEF: CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can't Let Them, VICTORY: Trump Administration Abandons Policy of Banning Abortion for Young Immigrants, ACLU Investigation: Formerly Incarcerated Nebraskans Incorrectly Told They Couldn't Vote, Facebook's Discrimination Against the LGBTQ Community, We're Calling for a Special, Independent Prosecutor for Police Abuses in Portland, At the Polls, Episode 1: What Will Election Night Look Like in a Global Pandemic?, We Are Not Okay, Congress: Expand Voting Access During COVID-19 12OKT20

CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can't Let Them Customs and Border Protection (CBP), America's largest federal law enforcement agency, operates with routine impunity. Now, the agency has asked the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which maintains federal agency records, to approve destruction of internal CBP records of misconduct. An agency rife with abuse should not be allowed to purge its own paper trail of wrongdoing. That's why the ACLU of Texas Border Rights Center, with over 100 partner organizations, has filed a public comment urging NARA to reject CBP's proposal. Read more

FROM THE FRONT LINES

VICTORY: Trump Administration Abandons Policy of Banning Abortion for Young Immigrants As a direct result of the immense courage of our clients and three years of litigation, the Trump administration has officially abandoned its policy of preventing unaccompanied immigrant minors in its custody from accessing abortion care. We are certainly taking a moment to celebrate this hard-earned win, but the battle for "reproductive freedom for all" is far from over – including for others currently in immigration detention. The ACLU will continue to fight for access to reproductive health care for people in federal custody and beyond. Read more ACLU Investigation: Formerly Incarcerated Nebraskans Incorrectly Told They Couldn't Vote When a formerly incarcerated voter in Nebraska received notice that he couldn't vote after waiting out the state's two-year post-sentence time period, he turned to the ACLU. Our Nebraska team then launched an investigation that found the voter was not alone – around 400 formerly incarcerated Nebraskans received the same inaccurate letter. We've stepped in to make sure the Secretary of State corrects these errors before Election Day. Read more (This link brings you to a third-party website, ketv.com) Facebook's Discrimination Against the LGBTQ Community Married couple Unsung Lilly has made music together for the past 8 years, creating empowering music for their fans. The COVID-19 pandemic put the couple in a difficult spot financially, so they turned to their community of fans on Facebook for help. But when they created a sponsored ad – Facebook rejected it, despite taking no issue with a similar ad of a heterosexual couple. Here's an up-close look at the couple's fight against Facebook's unfair and uneven standards and policies. Read more We're Calling for a Special, Independent Prosecutor for Police Abuses in Portland Following another weekend of aggressive policing in Portland, the ACLU of Oregon is pushing for Governor Brown to appoint a special, independent prosecutor to investigate the ongoing police abuses that have occurred in the city over the past several months. Police abuse of protesters, journalists, legal observers, medics, and bystanders must be stopped. Read more (This link brings you to a third-party website, oregonlive.com)

TUNE IN

At the Polls, Episode 1: What Will Election Night Look Like in a Global Pandemic? The ACLU's At Liberty podcast recently launched At the Polls, a weekly mini-series on the 2020 election and all things voting. In this first episode, At the Polls host and ACLU voting rights lawyer and organizer Molly McGrath talks about what to expect this year with election law scholar Rick Hasen and election administrator Rachel Rodriguez. Listen here

WHAT'S NEXT

We Are Not Okay If you are not Black and you're asking yourself, "How can I help my Black friends, family members, and colleagues coping with the daily trauma of racial injustice and violence against Black people?", here is a non-exhaustive list of what you can do today. Read more

TAKE ACTION

Congress: Expand Voting Access During COVID-19 Join us in calling on Congress to expand voting access during COVID 19 by including expanded early voting and no-excuse absentee voting in the next relief package. Take action