The American Civil Liberties Union stepped up its fight last Tuesday on two fronts � in New Jersey state court and in federal court in the District of Columbia � to learn the details about hundreds of Muslims detained on immigration charges since Sept. 11.
ACLU-NJ is attempting to use the New Jersey’s right-to-know law in a suit against Hudson and Passaic counties to achieve what its national parent failed to do late last year: force the government to disclose the detainees’ names and personal information. The logic is that since these men are being held in the Hudson and Passaic county jails, the jail authorities have a duty to disclose the information under the state’s 1963 Right to Know Act.
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