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11 09, 2019

Memphis Council Candidate Questionnaire: District 1 Answers

2019-09-12T16:44:34-05:00 September 11th, 2019|Categories: General News|Tags: |

1. If elected or re-elected to the city council, will you propose programs and/or initiatives to limit the number of arrests for minor offenses in the city? BONNER: DID NOT [...]

10 09, 2019

Memphis Council Candidate Questionnaire: Super District 9 Position 3 Answer

2019-09-12T16:44:42-05:00 September 10th, 2019|Categories: General News|Tags: |

1. If elected or re-elected to the city council, will you propose programs and/or initiatives to limit the number of arrests for minor offenses in the city? BURCH: FLETCHER: DID [...]

10 09, 2019

Memphis Council Candidate Questionnaire: Super District 8 Position 2 Answers

2019-09-12T16:44:56-05:00 September 10th, 2019|Categories: General News|Tags: |

1. If elected or re-elected to the city council, will you propose programs and/or initiatives to limit the number of arrests for minor offenses in the city? MARINDA ALEXANDRIA-WILLIAMS: DID [...]

10 09, 2019

Memphis Council Candidate Questionnaire: District 5 Answers

2019-09-12T16:45:03-05:00 September 10th, 2019|Categories: General News|Tags: |

1. If elected or re-elected to the city council, will you propose programs and/or initiatives to limit the number of arrests for minor offenses in the city? MAREK: I co-founded [...]

10 09, 2019

Memphis Council Candidate Questionnaires: District 2 Answers

2019-09-12T16:45:11-05:00 September 10th, 2019|Categories: General News|Tags: |

1. If elected or re-elected to the city council, will you propose programs and/or initiatives to limit the number of arrests for minor offenses in the city? COLVETT: DID NOT [...]

18 04, 2016

Arrests and Handcuffing of Schoolchildren in Rutherford County

2016-07-07T09:35:59-05:00 April 18th, 2016|Categories: Docket|Tags: , , , , , , |

In April, Murfreesboro police arrested eleven children ages nine to twelve for allegedly witnessing an off-campus fight that had taken place several weeks earlier and not intervening. Four of the [...]

1 03, 2016

Evictions Based on Criminal Arrests

2017-03-28T06:53:44-05:00 March 1st, 2016|Categories: Docket|Tags: , , , , , |

In the spring of 2016, a local attorney reported to ACLU-TN that the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) had recently begun a practice of evicting public housing tenants when [...]

24 07, 2014

Tennessee v. Prabhakar

2017-03-28T06:53:47-05:00 July 24th, 2014|Categories: Docket|Tags: , , , , , , , |

(Case No. P8346-01, Tennessee Department of Safety, Nashville, Administrative Judge Michael Begley) Plaintiffs: Tennessee Department of Safety; Shelby County Sheriff’s Department Defendants: Aditi Prabhakar Aditi Prabhakar, a San Jose, California college [...]

10 05, 2012

Juana Villegas de la Paz v. Metro Nashville Government

2016-07-11T11:03:17-05:00 May 10th, 2012|Categories: Docket|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

(Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville: No. 3:09-cv-219—William J. Haynes, Jr., District Judge; No. 11-6031, Sixth Circuit of Appeals, CLAY, GIBBONS, and [...]

19 10, 2011

Angel Enrique Nunez Escobar, et al. v. Lee Gaines, et al.

2017-03-28T06:53:49-05:00 October 19th, 2011|Categories: Docket|Tags: , , , , , , , |

(No. 3-11-0994, Judge Campbell, US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division) ACLU Attorneys: Thomas H. Castelli, ACLU-TN; Andre Segura, Lee Gelernt and Cecila D. Wang, ACLU Foundation [...]