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The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLUM) (established 1920) is a civil rights organization in the United States, and it is the Massachusetts affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU-Massachusetts was actually founded a few months prior to the national organization, initially as the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee, and then the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM).〔(ACLU of Massachusetts Records, 1920-2000 ), Description, Massachusetts Historical Society.〕 In 1995 CLUM changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLUM) to better reflect its relationship with the national organization. == History and leadership == * Kirtley F. Mather - Harvard geologist, chair of the MCLU, 1936-1958. He was an outspoken critic of McCarthyism,〔(Geologist Kirtley F. Mather, “Humanist and Scientist,” Dies ) The Harvard Crimson, Retrieved 13 January 2013〕 and a co-founder of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis.〔(Propaganda and Democracy, The American Experience of Media and Mass Persuasion ) Cambridge University Press, 1997, p129, Retrieved 21 January 2013〕 * Susan Estrich * Jerome Grossman - Chair, CLU-M Foundation * Marjorie Heins * Dunbar Holmes - Church-State Committee Chairman, 1952-1967 * Wendy Kaminer * Eva Moseley - MCLUF trustee, 1970-2003 * John Roberts - CLUM Director, 1986-1999 * Carol Rose * Harvey Silverglate ==Recent and current work== ; 1920s - 1945 * Censorship struggles against Mayor James Michael Curley * loyalty oath work: Galardi v. Hague, U. S. Navy (Mass.) (1946-1948) federal employee loyalty oath; against the teachers' loyalty oath〔 * ''Nicholls, Jr. v. Mayor and School Committee of Lynn (Mass.)'' (1935-1939), a compulsory flag salute case * Commonwealth v. Nichols (Mass.) (1938) leaflet distribution ; 1945-1960s * Establishing Massachusetts Fair Employment Practices Commission * Organizer of anti-McCarthyism struggles * Commonwealth v. Struik and Winner (1951-1956) - anarchism * Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market (Mass.) (1961-1962 censorship) ; Vietnam War era (1960s-1970s) * 1968 - The Massachusetts affiliate took the card-burning case of David O’Brien to the Supreme court, arguing that the act of burning was a form of symbolic speech, but the Supreme Court upheld the conviction in ''United States v. O'Brien'', 391 US 367 (1968).〔Walker, p. 280.〕 * Massachusetts Teachers' Oath case, Richardson v. Cole and Greenblatt (Mass.) (1969 state employee loyalty oath) ; 1970s-1980s * ''B.U. Exposure'' - First Amendment suit (1977-1984) brought against BU President John Silber ; 1990s-present * NAMBLA - In 2000, the ACLU's Massachusetts affiliate represented the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), on first amendment grounds, in the ''Curley v. NAMBLA'' wrongful death civil suit that was based solely on the fact that a man who raped and murdered a child had visited the NAMBLA website.〔ACLU, ("ACLU Statement on Defending Free Speech of Unpopular Organizations" ), Aug. 31, 2000.〕 * (PrivacySOS.org ) - Privacy and surveillance activism * 2014 - ACLU-M urging dismissal of all 40,000+ criminal cases tainted by falsification of evidence by Annie Dookhan.〔Milton J. Valencia, ("State ACLU urges Mass. high court to dismiss all Annie Dookhan cases" ), ''Boston Globe'', Jan. 9, 2014.〕 * 2013-2014 - Investigations of the Ibragim Todashev killing by the Boston FBI in May, 2013 * 2014 - Response to end shackling of pregnant women prisoners while giving birth * 2014 - ''Commonwealth v. Augustine'' (Mass. S.J.C. Feb. 18, 2014) - ACLU-M along with the National ACLU litigated a case requiring that a warrant be required when state or local police track Massachusetts resident cell phones. The case applied Massachusetts and federal constitutional protections, and significantly distinguished ''Smith v. Maryland'', which found that installation of pen registers to track call data was not a Fourth Amendment search that required a warrant, because cell site location information (CSLI) reveals a person's movements and other information that a fixed phone would not remove.〔WilmerHale, ("Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules in Favor of WilmerHale and ACLU in Case Involving Cell Phone Privacy" ), Feb. 19, 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ACLU of Massachusetts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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