July 1, 2008 --
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| The patient at 6:20 a.m. - the same time as hospital records indicate she was “sitting quietly in waiting room.” |
The shocking June death and shameful neglect of a 49-year-old Brooklyn woman in the borough’s public hospital psychiatric emergency room had advocates who filed a major civil rights lawsuit against the hospital last year back in court today demanding immediate, urgent reform. Disturbing security videos show employees ignoring the woman’s convulsing body, walking past her as she lay face down and dying for more than an hour. Further, hospital medical records misrepresent her condition in a way that suggests they have been altered or not maintained with the integrity the law requires.
The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit in federal court over “Operation Darkening Clouds,” a secret FBI data-mining program that may have targeted more than 130,000 immigrants in the lead up to the Iraq war.
The New York Civil Liberties Union featured experts in genetic science and criminal justice at an Albany news conference on a new and controversial technique that involves the collection of DNA from family members of an individual whose DNA is a near – but not precise – match with DNA evidence found at a crime scene.
For the second time in one year, the Rand Corporation has issued a report that parrots the NYPD’s perspective without seeking public input.
The report, which is purported to be an independent analysis of the NYPD’s firearms and shooting practices prompted by the Sean Bell shooting, includes no community input whatsoever.
The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a claim against the City of Troy on behalf of Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi refugee and artist whose controversial art installation “Virtual Jihadi” was closed the day after it opened on purported code violations. In May, the NYCLU filed a similar claim on behalf of The Sanctuary for Independent Media, which hosted the exhibit.
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