This week, the NYCLU brought another local forum in Buffalo detailing the ways that the REAL ID program violates the privacy rights of New Yorkers, at the same time we continue our push to educate all Americans through legislative advocacy and litigation, the ACLU and its affiliates actively oppose efforts in Congress to further broaden the government's power to spy on innocent Americans who are not conspiring with foreign powers, and support proposals to increase judicial and congressional oversight of FISA surveillance and restore much-needed checks and balances.
Our first segment this week brought us news from Congress as House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer discussed standing up to the President and the U.S. Senate after their passage of the misnamed Protect America Act which would have expanded unwarranted spying against ordinary citizens and given immunity to the complicit telecommunications industry which allowed this administration to spy on all Americans.
In our final segment this week, we featured the work of the NYCLU's Youth Camera Action Project produced three short documentaries on student experiences with the over-policing of schools and the School to Prison Pipeline. The NYCLU supported the students in creating their own videos using their own words and footage. The documentaries feature over a dozen youth
discussing the School to Prison Pipeline as well as school safety agents, police officers, metal detectors, the over-reliance on suspensions, over-emphasis on discipline, and criminalization of students.
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