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The D.C. Police Union is fighting back and asking to get involved in a lawsuit the ACLU filed against the city, challenging the use of police to respond to mental health emergencies.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday about the constitutionally permitted length of police seizures in a case brought by protesters whose phones have been confiscated indefinitely since their arrests in the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, D.C., filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the District of Columbia on behalf of a local nonprofit that has asserted the city’s system of sending police officers as the “default first responders” for those experiencing a mental health crisis violates federal laws that protect the rights of people with disabilities.

Mental health advocates and members of the American Civil Liberties Union gathered in D.C. on Wednesday with a simple message: the District needs to change how...

The ACLU of Washington, D.C. has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a demonstrator who claims she was injured when a National Guard helicopter flew low to the ground over a protest she was a part of in 2020.

In June of 2020, the National Guard deployed two military helicopters against protesters in D.C.

Because some pain medications are safer and more effective than others for treating spine-related pain, "rational therapeutic choices should be targeted to spine pain diagnosis," investigators note.