Campaigns & Initiatives

In 2019, the Essex County Correctional Facility Civilian Task Force was created with the purpose of providing oversight of the Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF), a jail with a long record of abuses.

Through our Automated Injustice Project, we’ve begun investigating a few instances when the New Jersey government has deployed algorithms and automated decision systems that impact our lives and wellbeing. Learn more about our investigation.

Led by the ACLU-NJ and our partners, NJ CAN 2020 was a nonpartisan electoral campaign that united leaders with a range of experience - in public safety, medicine, civil rights, faith leadership, the cannabis industry, law, labor, politics — to legalize, tax, and regulate cannabis for adult use emphasizing racial equity, social justice, and inclusion.

We at the ACLU of New Jersey are monitoring to make sure that government actions reflect public health and scientific evidence – not fear. And we’re monitoring to make sure that our rights – and in particular, the rights of the most vulnerable – remain intact.

How decarceration can embody liberty and justice for all.