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News Release Civil Liberties Groups to Prime Minister: Stop Detaining Migrants in Provincial Jails

Posted on November 21, 2022

News Release Civil Liberties Group Files Joint Complaint Against RCMP Community-Industry Response Group for Behaviour and Unlawful Arrests During Raid of Argenta Protest Area

Posted on July 21, 2022

News Release Media Advisory: BCCLA at Supreme Court of Canada to argue for limits to police undercover investigative powers in online spaces

Posted on May 17, 2022

News Release PRESS RELEASE: BCCLA Wins Lawsuit Against the RCMP Commissioner

Posted on January 11, 2022

News Release Civil Liberties Group Heads to Court to Fight for Police Accountability

Posted on September 9, 2021

News Release Coalition Submits Complaint for the Cancellation of the VPD Trespass Prevention Program

Posted on June 15, 2021

News Release Press Release: Civil Liberties Group and Legal Observers Condemn RCMP Actions at Fairy Creek

Posted on May 21, 2021

News Release Vancouver Police Endanger Indigenous Women and Child on MMIWG Day of Awareness

Posted on May 7, 2021

News Release Civil Liberties, Indigenous Rights, and Community Groups Respond to BC Travel Restrictions Order

Posted on April 23, 2021

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Supreme Court of Canada Dismisses Police Entrapment Case

Posted on April 15, 2021

News Release Press Release: Civil Liberties Group Files Argument in RCMP Commissioner Lawsuit

Posted on April 1, 2021

News Release Indigenous Youth Condemn VPD Brutality and Charges Laid for Peaceful Sit-In; Call on Canada to End Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

Posted on February 22, 2021

News Release Human Rights Complainants Give New VPD Street Check Audit a Failing Grade in Annotated Response; Call on Vancouver Police Board to Ban Street Checks

Posted on February 18, 2021

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Privacy Investigation Finds Law Enforcement Agencies in Canada Used Illegal Mass Surveillance Software Tool

Posted on February 3, 2021

News Release Coalition of Organizations Call for End to Vancouver Police Department Trespass Prevention Program

Posted on January 28, 2021

News Release PRESS RELEASE: RCMP Commissioner Sued by Civil Liberties Group for Preventing Release of Watchdog Report into Police Spying

Posted on November 10, 2020

News Release Media Advisory: Civil Liberties Group to Argue that Money Laundering Inquiry Must Consider Civil Liberties and Human Rights

Posted on October 23, 2020

News Release Press Release: Father of Police Shooting Calls on Provincial Party Leaders to Prioritize Immediate Police Reform

Posted on October 21, 2020

News Release Delegation Appearing at Vancouver Police Board to Demand Ban on Police Street Checks; Over Ninety Organizations Call for Street Check Ban

Posted on September 17, 2020

News Release Civil Liberties and Indigenous Rights Groups Call on CRCC to Immediately Take Conduct of Investigation into Wet’suwet’en Land Defender’s Police Complaint

Posted on August 27, 2020

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