Disability Rights

The ACLU-NJ strives to ensure that people with disabilities are able to live with dignity and free from discrimination. Our goal is for New Jersey to be a place where people with physical and mental disabilities or illnesses are integrated members of society with full access to education, homes, health care, jobs, voting, and beyond.

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The ACLU-NJ strives to ensure that people with disabilities are able to live with dignity and free from discrimination. Our goal is for New Jersey to be a place where people with physical and mental disabilities or illnesses are integrated members of society with full access to education, homes, health care, jobs, voting, and beyond.

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News & Commentary
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Protect Medicaid: Watch ACLU-NJ's Virtual Town Hall on Federal Cuts to Health Care

15 million people with disabilities are enrolled in Medicaid, and the House of Representatives just voted to cut $800 billion from this life-saving program.
News & Commentary
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How the Government Relies on Algorithms to Allocate Healthcare Benefits – and Why These Secret Formulas Threaten Patients’ Fundamental Rights

When faced with important health care decisions, we often turn to doctors, service providers, family, and friends. But today, another actor plays a growing role in those decisions as the government and insurance companies increasingly lean on algorithms to allocate health care we need.
News & Commentary
an illustration with a yellow background and text that reads: Medicaid Algorithms. A group of three people, including a person sitting down in a wheelchair is at the foreground. On the right, there is a collage of pills, syringe, and a medical toolbox.

Cómo el Gobierno se Apoya en Algoritmos para Designar los Beneficios de la Atención Médica y por qué estas Fórmulas Secretas Amenazan los Derechos Fundamentales de los Pacientes

Cuando debemos enfrentarnos a decisiones importantes sobre la atención médica, a menudo pedimos consejo a un médico, los prestadores de servicios, la familia y los amigos. Pero hoy en día, otro actor desempeña un papel cada vez más importante en estas decisiones: los algoritmos.
Press Release
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Court Grants Final Approval of Settlement that Reforms Special Education Services in New Jersey Prisons, Negotiated Relief Now Takes Effect

The case, Adam X. et al. v. New Jersey Department of Corrections and Department of Education et al., was filed in January 2017. The settlement offers a national model for special education services in prison.
Issue Areas: Students' & Youth Rights, Disability Rights, Prisons & Jails
Court Cases: Adam X v. NJ Departments of Corrections and Education
Court Case
Feb 11, 2022

State v. F.E.D.

Amicus brief addressing New Jersey’s compassionate release statute.
Court Case
Jun 29, 2018

Adam X v. NJ Departments of Corrections and Education

Challenge to the NJDOC and NJDOE’s failure to provide, and monitor the provision of, appropriate special education and related services to young people with disabilities in adult prisons in violation of federal law.