PHOENIX—Alessandra Soler, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, made the following comment regarding Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone's announcement today that he plans to shut the Tent City jail facility.

PHOENIX—The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona has elected Dale Baich, the supervising attorney of the Capital Habeas Unit at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Arizona, to be the new president of its board of directors.

PHOENIX – In anticipation of a federal court hearing Wednesday about former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deadly jail legacy, the ACLU invites journalists to participate in a teleconference tomorrow.

PHOENIX — The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona filed a Freedom of Information Act request today with a local U.S. Customs and Border Protection office to expose how Trump administration officials are interpreting and executing the president’s Muslim ban.

President Trump today signed executive orders authorizing funding for the building of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, dramatically ramping up immigration detention, and threatening to defund cities and states that protect people’s rights without regard to immigration status.

PHOENIX—ACLU of Arizona Legal Director Kathy Brody will argue today before the Arizona Supreme Court against the use of general neighborhood characteristics by police to justify pat-down searches of individuals.

PHOENIX—The Arizona Attorney General’s Office today issued an opinion establishing guidelines for the implementation of two remaining provisions of the state’s 2010 racial profiling law, SB 1070.

PHOENIX—Kathy Brody has joined the ACLU of Arizona as the organization’s legal director. Brody comes to the ACLU from Osborn Maledon, P.A., where she was a partner in the firm’s litigation group.

PHOENIX--U.S. District Court Judge G. Murrary Snow today issued an order in the ACLU racial profiling class action lawsuit Melendres v. Arpaio.