The U.S. government apologized and provided compensation to Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb, an Iraqi refugee whom federal agents unlawfully stopped, interrogated, arrested, imprisoned, and sought to deport.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in Skagit County Superior Court on behalf of a Mount Vernon woman seeking to have Skagit Regional Health comply with Washington’s Reproductive Privacy Act.
We argue however, that in this case, the violent incident recorded falls within a bodily threat exception to the Act and that the recording could be used as evidence.
ACLU-WA filed an amicus brief focused on the importance of government transparency; the specific language of the PRA, its history, and purposes; and the constitutional implications of the public’s right to see and know what government actors are doing.
