American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois

The Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU of Illinois (ACLU-IL) works to protect and extend liberty and equality to all in Illinois through litigation, coalition-building, strategic communications, advocacy, and public education on a broad array of issues affecting our constitutional rights. The award supports the organization’s Privacy, Technology, and Surveillance project, which seeks to ensure that technology is used in a way that respects the civil rights and civil liberties afforded to all persons by local, state and federal laws and constitutions. Areas of substantive focus include protecting biometric information in Illinois; working to end the use of discriminatory automated predictive technologies in the Illinois criminal legal and child welfare systems; mitigating the harms of surveillance technologies; addressing the intersection of reproductive rights and privacy; and exploring new policy questions raised by generative artificial intelligence. This work will be advanced through a mix of public education, policy analysis, advocacy, and litigation.

The Roger Baldwin Foundation is the charitable arm of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU), a nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization that protects liberties and freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The ACLU has long been a leader in promoting criminal justice reform in Illinois, working in coalition with other advocates, community groups, and governmental actors to press for reforms that reduce unnecessary incarceration and address racial disparities in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. This award supports the ACLU’s continued research, public education, and outreach activities in support of these goals.

The Roger Baldwin Foundation is a charitable arm of the American Civil Liberties Union of IL, a nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization that protects liberties and freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The award provides flexible support to the organization’s work focused on privacy, technology and surveillance, which seeks to ensure that technology is used in a way that respects the civil rights and civil liberties afforded to all persons by local, state and federal laws and constitutions. Areas of substantive focus include ensuring that technology and data used to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois is done in a way that advances equity and protects civil rights and civil liberties, as well as addressing the use of technology in the Illinois criminal justice and child welfare systems.

The Roger Baldwin Foundation is the charitable arm of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU), a nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization that protects liberties and freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The ACLU has long been a leader in promoting criminal justice reform, working alongside other advocates, coalitions, community groups, and governmental actors to reduce unnecessary incarceration and address racial disparities in the criminal adult and juvenile legal systems. This award supports their Illinois Justice Project's research, public education, and outreach activities to promote criminal justice reform to reduce incarceration and address racial and ethnic disparities in jails in Illinois.

The Roger Baldwin Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU of Illinois) is the charitable arm of the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU of Illinois defends the U.S. Constitution, federal law, and state law where those authorities protect individuals. It seeks to overturn laws or policies that deprive persons of their rights. With this renewal award, the ACLU of Illinois responds to threats to the rights and liberties of Illinoisans, with a particular focus on protecting the rights of immigrants and refugees. To counter these threats, the ACLU of Illinois engages citizens and mobilizes public campaigns, advocates for policies that protect individual rights, and litigates in the courts to preserve civil liberties.