ACLU at Boise State

“The 11 million days of lost instruction from suspensions as disciplinary actions from 2015-2016 translates to more than 60,000 school years, more than 60 million hours of lost education, and billions of dollars wasted. And this is all in a single school year.”

Race, Discipline, and Safety at U.S. Public Schools There are more than 96,000 public schools in America. The U.S. Department of Education recently released data that was collected from all of them. The data, based on the 2015-2016 school year, reveals the extent of police presence in schools, the lack of basic services, and the growing racial dispar...

“As Idaho’s standing civil forfeiture law reads, a person doesn’t even need to be charged with a crime in order to have property seized. A 2016 Times-News investigation revealed one case where a police took $9,000 in cash from a couple caught with a small amount of pot. Neither person was charged, nor suspected of drug trafficking.”

Our View: Otter should sign bill that reforms when cops can seize your stuff The concept of “innocent until proven guilty” is the mortar that holds together America’s legal system. Every single person accused of a crime get...