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Annual Report 2008-2009

Dear Friend,

The economic uncertainty of the past year, coupled with the continued fallout from the Bush Administra- tion’s reckless war on our constitutional values creates in a full agenda for the ACLU and its supporters. We are working relentlessly to reform state governmental systems and to roll back years of abuse from the Bush Administration—while putting protections in place to guarantee that these horrific violations never occur again.

The economic crisis has left all of us reeling; but it has had the greatest impact on the most vulnerable people in our state. We have seen an influx of people, with nowhere else to go, turning to the ACLU for help. Unfortunately, private philanthropy alone cannot fix the depth and scope of problems caused, or ex- acerbated by, broken systems. To fix these problems, we need tireless advocacy, in the courts, legislative bodies and in all channels of public communications.

During the last year, the ACLU stood up for people all across the state:

• When threatened cuts for Illinois DCFS would have meant increased caseloads for workers as- signed to monitor abused and neglected children, we went to court to protect children. • To put and end to outmoded policies, we sued the Illinois government to force them to fund community-based living arrangements for people with disabilities, instead of warehousing them in large institutions.

• To end the Illinois police practice of searching drivers of color at a much higher rate than white drivers, we worked to keep in place legislation that requires law enforcement of- ficers to report the race and ethnicity of every driver they stop and worked at the state and local level to end the practice of consent searches.

• To address the high rate of unemployment in minority communities and the near impos- sibility of getting a job with a criminal record, we are working to stop discriminatory school discipline practices that push minority youth–particularly boys–out of school and into prison. We are also attacking the high dropout rates of minority youth in Chicago Public Schools by pushing them to increase resources for English as Second Language learners.

• We continue to work to improve conditions at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Cen- ter, including efforts to improve educational services for children detained there.

• To protect and extend the full range of reproductive health options, we are challenging restrictive state laws to assure that women and their doctors, not government bureaucrats or prosecutors, decide what medical care best protects the woman and her health. In addition, we are currently working with a statewide coalition to pass a comprehensive Reproductive Health and Access Act.

• We are fighting to challenge discrimination and extend civil rights protections for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. In addition to drafting and working to pass improvements to the Illinois Human Rights Act, we are working to ensure that gay and lesbian couples have the same legal protections as married couples.

Although the Bush Administration has left office, our work to repair the damage and restore the Constitu- tion is far from it. Here is some work we are doing on National Security:

• ACLU lawyers brought the lawsuit that forced the disclosure in April 2009 of the Department of Justice memos authorizing torture and other abuses of the Constitution.

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• ACLU of Illinois lawyers are co-lead counsel in a nationwide lawsuit challenging the warrantless spying on millions of innocent Americans. This case is critical to the campaign to restore constitu- tional rights and checks and balances.

• ACLU attorneys are challenging the unlawful warrantless surveillance of American telephones and emails that has continued under the Obama Administration and which was disclosed when the National Security Administration admitted in April that it had “overcollected” data involving telephone calls and emails of millions of Americans.

• The ACLU of Illinois continues to challenge abusive profiling of American citizens who are Mus- lim, including suing to correct the so-called Terrorist Watch List so that innocent Americans do not have to endure the humiliation and abuse visited on them by law enforcement officials as they return home from trips abroad.

Our clients turn to us because of our reputation for courage and steadfast defense of constitutional prin- ciples. Your past support of the ACLU reveals your commitment to justice and the rule of law; I hope you share our pride in our ongoing work to restore the Constitution.

4 Annual Report 2008-2009 RESTORING THE RULE OF LAW

ur fundamental system of checks and balances was severly undermined by eight years of near constant abuse by the Bush-Cheney Administration. The result of their unchecked use of executive authority in- O cluded illegal government spying, summary detention of innocent aliens post 9-11 anderroneous watch- listing of innocent U.S. citizens that transcend the bounds of law and our most treasured values in the name of national security. The ACLU of Illinois is challenging Bush era national security abuses in three major lawsuits:

Rahman v. Chertoff: The RBF/ACLU of Illinois, along with other ACLU affiliates, represents nine individu- als - all United States citizens - who are the victims of repeated stops, harassment and undue deten- tions upon re-entering the country. These plaintiffs have faced frightening situations - having guns drawn on them, being hand-cuffed for long periods of time, and being separated from family members traveling with them. The action seeks to compel the government to fix the terrorist watchlisting system that causes this to happen to our clients.

Khorrami v. Rolince et al: In 2004, we filed suit against the FBI and INS for the unjustified deten- Correcting tion and abusive physical treatment of our client, Terrorist Ahmad Farid Khorrami, after September 11th 2001. Mr. Khorrami was taken into custody and his immigration status and pilot training certificate both Watch Lists were revoked, when the FBI erroneously asserted that he posed a national security threat, despite evidence and Stop- to the contrary. The case challenges the constitututionality of the use of immigration removal proceedings ping the as a pretext for holding a law-abiding alien in indefinite investigative detention. The case is still pending. Abuse of Power Terkel, et al v. AT&T: The RBF/ACLU of Illinois represents the late author Studs Terkel, Dr. Quentin Young, attorney James Montgomery, Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie and other prominent Il- linois citizens in challenging telephone giant AT&T for sharing customers’ telephone records with the govern- ment without lawful authorization. In 2006, our case – along with similar lawsuits against telecom companies filed in courts across the nation – was consolidated as multi-jurisdictional litigation and transferred to the federal district court in San Francisco. The ACLU of Illinois, along with lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was appointed co-lead coordinating counsel for more than forty cases, including our own. The cases were dismissed in response to the passage of the FISA Amendments Act. The ACLU and EFF are ap- pealing this decision.

In addition to litigation in defense of civil liberties, the ACLU of Illinois works to educate the public and mobilize support for holding accountable those responsible for torture and illegal spying. In 2009, we held a townhall forum, featuring Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, to highlight several areas of con- cern, including detention and interrogation policies, wiretapping and watch lists, as well as the impact of these and other policies on newcomers and the Arab and Muslim Communities. Presenters included Jeffrey Colman – a lawyer at the Chicago office of Jenner & Block representing detainees at Guantana- mo Bay, Cuba; Fred Tsao of the Illinois Coalition on Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Junaid Afeef, Execu- tive Director of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago; and, ACLU of Illinois Executive Director Colleen K. Connell.

5 Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS PROJECT

or nearly four decades, ACLU lawyers have successfully led challenges to state laws that restrict repro- ductive autonomy—laws that have attempted to make criminal the medical decisions that women make in- F consulation with their healthcare provider regarding contraceptives, genetic testing and abortions. Recent cases include:

Morr-Fitz v. Blagojevich: The ACLU filed amicus briefs in the Illinois Supreme Court insupport of an Illinois reg- ulation that requires pharmacies to assure seamless access to contraception when an individual pharmacist refuses to fill a contraceptive prescription. The Illinois regulation - adopted after several women faced undue delay and harassment in trying to fill prescriptions for contraception - simply makes clear that the pharmacy must provide some efficient procedure to allow such prescriptions to be filled, even when one pharmacist objects.

Miller v. American Infertility Group: After a judge ruled that an unimplanted, fertilized egg was a “human being” under the Wrongful Death Act, ACLU attorneys collaborated on a successful appeal.

Protecting the Rights of Vulnerable Teens In response to an unfortunate decision in another long-standing case, Zbaraz v. Madigan, the ACLU of Illinois launched the Illinois Judicial Bypass Coordination Project. The decision by the Seventh Circuit Court of Fighting for Appeals revived the Illinois Parental Notice You are Not Alone! Reproductive of Abortion Act, which had previously been enjoined from enforcement as a result of Rights over three decades of litigation brought by the ACLU of Illinois.

The bypass project educates young women about their rights under the parental notice www.ilbypasscoordinationproject.org law, and connects them with free attorneys who can help them navigate the judicial bypass 1-877-44BYPASS process. This massive multi-pronged effort includes the recruitment and training of more than 100 volunteers to staff the tollfree hotline and provide pro bono legal services, a detailed website and online presence and the production of youth-friendly materials explaining the new laws and the resources available. The ACLU of Illinois continues to examine available legal op- tions to overturn this unconstitutional law, while working to mitigate its dangerous impact on young women.

Protecting the Full Range of Reproductive Health Services for All Women in Illinois In 2008, Project Director Lorie Chaiten drafted the Reproductive Health Access Act (RHAA), legislation designed to ensure access to the full range of reproductive education, health care and services, as well as correct the most serious legal barriers to these services for women and girls in Illinois. The RHAA bars the government from interfering with anyone’s ability to use birth control, carry a pregnancy to term or terminate a pregnancy. It protects individual medical practicioner’s right to refuse to provide services for religious reasons, while ensuring that all patients have access to accurate and complete information and timely and seamless access to care. It also requires all Illinois public schools to teach medically accurate, age appropriate, comprehensive sex educa- tion.

Working collaboratively with the broadest and most diverse coalition in the state, the RHAA was introduced in the Illinois General Assembly in 2009 with more than 30 co-sponsors. The Campaign for Reproductive Health

6 Annual Report 2008-2009 and Access helped provoke a statewide discussion on balancing the rights of doctors to refuse services based on personal religious beliefs with the right of patients to timely, seamless quality healthcare. The campaign contin- ues to attract new coalition members and build public support for reproductive health and access. Working to Bring Court Oversight to the Sterilization of Adults with Disabilities Our country has a long and shameful history of allowing the involuntary sterilization of people with disabilities, depriving them of their rights to privacy and bodily in- tegrity, and to make their own decisions about whether or not to become a parent. Reproductive Rights Proj- ect attorneys were instrumental in drafting legislation which creates a mechanism for a judge to determine whether an individual in a guardianship relationship wants to be sterilized, whether it is in his or her best in- terest, and whether other, less permanent and intrusive measures are available.

ACLU members and supporters sent hundreds of mes- sages of support to Governor Quinn in the weeks pre- ceeding his signature of the bill. Raising awareness and support for this legislation was the central focus of the ACLU’s first ever participation in Chicago’s Disability Pride Parade in July of 2009. Fighting for Reproductive Fighting Health and Human Services’ Health Care Denial Rule Rights Nationally, we were part of the campaign to defeat the Bush Administration’s effort to restrict access to ~ birth control by allowing a wide range of people to refuse to provide health care, information and related Defending services. Prior to the Rule’s passage, more than 41,000 individuals submitted objections through the AC- Freedom of LU’s online campaign. The ACLU of Illinois successfully encouraged Illinois’ Attorney General Lisa Madigan to join the Attorneys General of seven other states, along side the national ACLU and the Planned Parent- Religion hood Federation, in filing actions asking the Court to block the Rule, which would have jeopardized women’s health. The Obama administration is working to rescind the Rule.

Expanding Access to Abortion Providers in Illinois ACLU attorneys played a significant role in advocating for the recent opinion issued by the Illinois Attorney General that Illinois law permits Physician Assistants and Advance Practice Nurses working with a physician to dispense medication to induce abortion in early pregnancy. FIRST AMENDMENT e are amici in Sherman v. Township High School District 214, a case filed by a Buffalo Grove family against their local public high school and the Illinois Superintendent of Education, challenging a recently-en- Wacted Illinois state statute mandating a moment of silence as “an opportunity for silent prayer or for silent reflection on the anticipated activities of the day” before each school day begins. The Illinois legislature, in adopting the provision, compared the public school “moment of silence” to legislative prayer, indicating a legislative intent to promote public school prayer. The ACLU promptly began to participate in the suit as active, litigating amicus curiae. Throughout 2008, we filed numerous briefs on a broad array of substantive and pro- cedural matters. Most significantly, our amicus merits brief in support of the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment argued that the law was unconstitutional because its principle purpose was religious, because the law had the effect of encouraging students to pray, and because it favors religions with silent prayer over religions with other forms of prayer. In January 2009, the Court struck down the law. The Superintendent of Education filed a notice of appeal. The ACLU of Illinois continues to fight both in court and in the state legislature to have this unconstitutional statute overturned.

7 Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS PROJECT

hoosing what to eat. Having a room of your own and feeling safe within its privacy. Choosing whether to go out to a movie or watch one at home. Choosing whether or when to have your family visit. Having a job. C Deciding when or whether to become a parent. These basic assertions of personal dignity give meaning to life. The Insitutionalized Persons Project is dedicated to assuring that the rights outlined in the Constitution really do apply to everyone.

For more than 20 years, ACLU attorneys have brought class action lawsuits on behalf of children and people with disabilities living in government-funded institutions and programs. Our Institutionalized Persons Project has led the fight to overturn the corrupt political culture that has caused needless suffering by our clients and great expense for Illinois taxpayers.

Protecting Children in the Care of the State Our landmark case, B.H. v. McEwen, is so influential that a book has been written about the outcome. Filed against the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) more than 20 years ago, the settlement has produced widespread improvements that have moved thousands of children into safe, permanent homes and reduced the number of children in Illinois foster care from 50,000 to fewer than 17,000. Despite our suc- cess, we continue to carefully monitor and oversee the process, including the evaluation of DCFS’ educational and mental health services, and tracking children with multiple moves within the system.

In the summer of 2009, when draconian cuts to the state budget threatened to severely impair the ability of DCFS to ensure the well-being and welfare of vulnerable children in state care and to violate the settlement, Fighting the ACLU won an emergency order in federal court, mandating that the state comply with all provisions of the for Illinois’ consent decree. “The Judge made clear that this state’s budget will not be balanced on the backs of its most vulnerable residents - children in foster care,” said Benjamin Wolf, Associate Legal Director. “The compel- Voiceless ling testimony by the Director made clear that the looming budget cuts would create ripples of damage that would plague the state for years to come and cause the state to be out of compliance with the consent decree. We are pleased that Judge Grady acted swiftly and decisively in order to minimize harm to this most vulnerable population. “

Ensuring Choices for People With Disabilities ACLU attorneys, in partnership with other disability rights organizations, initiated three groundbreaking lawsuits seeking the reform of state-subsidized health care systems for people who are developmentally, psychiatrically and physically disabled. Ligas v. Maram: The ACLU represents adults with developmen- tal disabilities who reside in private state-funded institutions in a suit to force Illinois to comply with the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Despite the ADA’s mandate that people with disabilities receive services in the most integrated appropriate setting, Illinois remains last in the country in offering small community based placements for these individuals, forcing thousands of people to live in segre- gated institutions in order to receive care.

Williams v. Quinn, et al: We filed suit on behalf of the mentally ill Illinois residents who are currently living in large-scale institutional housing in conditions that range from cold and institutional to filthy and dangerous. Our suit argues that these residents could be better served for the same or less expense in small, community-based settings.

Colbert v. Quinn: We filed suit on behalf of people with physical and psychiatric disabilities who are unneces- sarily and illegally confined to nursing homes as a prerequisite to receiving services.

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Assuring Services for Troubled Juveniles When we filed a lawsuit on behalf of youth at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC), the facility had been overcrowded, unsafe and filthy for many years. Residents were regularly assaulted by other detainees and staff, and medical and mental health care were inadquately provided.

After several years of litigation, we settled with the County, providing a road map for reform; namely a court-en- forceable structure to hold the County accountable for its treatment of the young people in its care. Nonethe- less, as the Chicago Tribune repeatedly reported, holding the County to its promises has proven to be a monu- mental task: “The ACLU has been battling with the County for years over violent, chaotic conditions at the Cook County Juvenile Center.”

Reforming a system as broken as this one requires substantial effort, but we remain committed to the process. We see progress occurring with the placement of an independent, court-appointed “Transitional Administrator” of the facility, who has the authority to establish policies, make personnel decisions and oversee finances. As cooperating attorney Colby Kingbury said, “No child should ever live in the situation these children lived in. Even opposing sides must agree that the most important thing is the safety of the kids. We still have a long way to go, but to finally see the wheels turning in the right direction is incredible.” RACIAL JUSTICE he ACLU of Illinois long has been at the forefront of the battle against racial profiling. In the Fall of 2008, we analyzed data released by the Illinois Department of Transportation - which revealed a disturbing Fighting T pattern of bias in the way that law enforcement officals conduct consent searches of motorists after a routine traffic stop. for Illinois’ The ACLU’s analysis demonstrated that Voiceless Illinois State Police Illinois State Police ask for permission to ~ CONSENT SEARCH RATES search minority drivers more than three Ending 2007 times as often as white drivers. Worse, ISP Racial officers were far less likely to find contra- band (illegal guns or drugs) in the cars of Profiling minority drivers than in the cars of white motorists - demonstrating not only the pres- Hispanic 0.50% ence of racial profiling, but also its ineffective- Black ness in stopping criminal activity. The ACLU Percent of 0.45% Traffic Stops helped lead a coalition of civil rights organiza- that result in tions, challenging the former and current Gov- Consent ernors to end the practice of consent searches Searches entirely. White 0.14% “In looking at this data, it is reasonable to con- clude that for police in Illinois, a driver’s race Race is a proxy for suspicion in deciding whether to request a consent search,” said Harvey Grossman, Legal Director for the ACLU of Illinois. “It is clear that police view drivers of color with far more suspicion than their white counterparts.”

This critical data is the fruit of a law passed in 2003 by the ACLU, working collaboratively with then State Sena- tor Obama. During his press conference following the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at his home in Cambridge, President Obama reminded us that “what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact. . . . [W]hen I was in the state legislature in Illinois, we worked on a racial profiling bill because there was indisputable evidence that blacks and Hispanics were being stopped dispropor- tionately.”

During the 2009 legislative session, the ACLU spearheaded the successful effort to extend this initiative of then- State Senator Obama’s which requires law enforcement officers to collect racial data for all traffic stops.

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or more than 30 years, the ACLU has worked on behalf of people who have been discriminated against because of their sexual orientation or HIV status. Bias against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and F transgender (LGBT) community can be blatant, humiliating and dangerous. The ACLU works in court, in the legislature and in public to win fair and equal treatment for LGBT individuals and their families.

Winning Relationship Recognition for Gay and Lesbian Couples and Their Families The ACLU is a fierce advocate for equality in marriage for gay and lesbian couples and their families. All Illinoisans deserve to be treated equally. Our legislative team, working in coalition with legislators and partner organizations, helped devise the strategy to move Illinois towards ending the denial of marriage rights to LGBT residents.

As a first step, advocates have worked to pass civil union legislation dur- ing the past year. While not marriage, civil unions would extend those basic protections that Illinois families need: the ability to make emergency medical decisions, to share pensions and health insurance or to dispose of a loved one’s remains with dignity. ACLU members and supporters have turned out in force to support the civil union bill over the past year – send- ing thousands of emails and faxes to their legislators, volunteering for phone banks and canvassing and meeting with legislators in key districts to win their support. The bill has made significant advances over the past Working to year, and sparked an important conversation about fairness in Illinois. End Dis- crimination

Ending Discrimination Against Transgender Individuals In the current security environment, each of us can understand the need to have an accurate birth certificate. It is easy to see how frustrating it would be if Illinois officials refused to issue a correct birth certificate – no matter what steps you took. This is the dire circumstance faced today by persons born in Illinois on whose behalf the ACLU of Illinois filed a lawsuit in late January.

For more than four decades, Illinois permitted individu- als who have gender confirmation surgery to change the gender marker on their original birth certificate. In the last few years, however, the Department of Vital Records started interpreting the Vital Records Act to provide this option only if an individual has the surgery performed by a United States-licensed physician. The Department also started interpreting the law to require that female-to-male transgender persons have geni- tal surgery in order to correct their birth certificate, even though such surgery is rarely completed by male transgender individuals or recommended by their counselors and doctors. The Department’s rules cre- ated an unnecessary and unfair burden for the many persons who selected a surgeon from Europe, South America or Asia or for those who choose to forgo surgery for their own personal, medical reasons.

We received a significant victory in the case – our clients have received new birth certificates. We continue to monitor policy changes by the Department of Vital Records to ensure that others are not harmed.

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Protecting Youth at Risk The ACLU of Illinois’ Youth at Risk Program recognizes that many LGBTQ youth encounter additional challenges of bullying and harassment in schools and other government-run institutions (such as foster homes and juve- nile detention centers) while also possibly struggling for acceptance within their own families. The Youth at Risk Project mobilizes entire communities by organiz- ing Safe School Initiatives to educate the public, and school administrators and faculty about the problems of school bullying. Recently, the project created and shared a brochure entitled You Have a Right to Be Your- self with school administrators and other youth advo- cates across the state.

In 2009, the ACLU helped pass an amendment to the Il- linois Human Rights Act, providing a remedy for victims of hostile or discriminatory classroom conduct (minori- ty, disabled or gay students, for example) so that severe or pervasive harassment may be remedied even when school officials fail to take corrective action.

PRIVACY Working to End Dis- n 2008, we helped secure the passage of two important bills designed to safeguard the personal genetic crimination and biometric data of Illinoisans. The 2008 amendments to Illinois’ Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) I prohibit Illinois employers, labor unions and employment agencies from seeking or using genetic informa- ~ tion for personnel-related reasons. Specifically, the new law Protecting bars employers from using genetic information in hiring, firing, Personal demoting or otherwise retaliating against job applicants or em- Privacy ployees based on their or their family members’ genetic testing results. The measure also harmonized definitions in state law relating to genetic privacy with those in more recent federal laws, making the legislation as current as possible.

The Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) makes consent a prerequisite for private entities to collect biometrics; requires pri- vate entities collecting biometrics to establish a retention sched- ule; prohibits private entities from selling or trading biometrics; sets penalties for biometric mishandling; and establishes a study committee to review current biometric policies and practices of state and local government. The bill sailed through in response to a recent California bankruptcy proceeding which approved the sale of customer’s biometric data (including the data of thousands of Illinoisans) to a third party as an asset of the bankrupt company.

During the 2009 session, we mobilized hundreds of ACLU members to support then-Senate Bill 189, which modernized and strengthened Illinois’ outdated Freedom of Information Act and Open Meetings Act, adding enforcement mechanisms to ensure that the public has meaningful access to public records. We continue to fight for stronger privacy protections to complement the new FOIA legislation. In particular, the ACLU of Illinois sponsored the Illinois Accurate Government Records Act, which enables people described inaccurately in public records to obtain a copy of a record that describes her and correct it if necessary. Additionally, the bill limits dis- closure of records about a person between government agencies and regulates the way government may collect, maintain and use such records.

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Educating Youth About the Constitution As part of the national observance of Constitution Day, Congress mandates that every school receiving public funds take some time on or around September 17th to talk about the Constitution of the United States with students. This presents an important opportunity to discuss the fundamental values of our constitutional system of government with students who will one day be active, involved citizens.

In 2008, speakers from the ACLU of Illinois made more than fifty presentations and reached thousands of students during the week of Constitution Day, engaging students in a discussion about how the principles of our government impact public policy and public life in America today. 2008 presentations focused on student rights including discussion of student activism surrounding the 2008 presidential election and privacy rights.

Mobilizing ACLU Members In 2008, the ACLU of Illinois joined the national ACLU as part of the ACLU-CAN program, a powerful new in- Education ternet communciations tool for engaging our members and supporters and moving them to action. Through and the CAN program, the ACLU of Illinois is able to reach over 15,000 individuals around the state who care Outreach about civil liberties and are willing to take action.

Over the past year, we have used this tool to generate hundreds of calls and email messages to state and national officials on issues ranging from the investigation of torture to ending racial profiling. In one of his first acts as Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn signed Senate Bill 2275 into law, raising the age for juvenile court jurisdiction to 18 for misdemeanor offenses and bringing Illinois into line with thirty-eight other states. In the weeks leading up to Governor Quinn’s action, ACLU supporters generated nearly 500 email and fax messages in support of the bill.

12 Annual Report 2008-2009 2008-2009 RBF FINANCES

Income by Source Budget Allocations

$2.8 Million

2008 - 2009 Finances

2008-2009 ACLU FINANCES

Income by Source Budget Allocations

$585,000

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14 Annual Report 2008-2009 FOUNDATION AND CORPORATE SUPPORT AIDS Foundation of Chicago National Health Care, Inc. Anonymous (3) Neal Gerber & Eisenberg Arie and Ida Crown Memorial The New Prospect Foundation Francis Beidler Foundation The Northern Trust Company Best Portion Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation The Book Table, Inc. Pond Family Foundation Brown, Kaplan & Liss LLP The Pro Archia Foundation The Chicago Bar Foundation Public Interest Law Initiative The Chicago Community Foundation Rauner Family Foundation The Chicago Community Trust Reed Smith LLP The Chicago Foundation for Women The Relations Foundation CNA Foundation The Rothman Family Foundation Community Shares of Illinois Schiff Hardin LLP Conant Family Foundation Sidley Austin LLP Philip H. Corboy Foundation Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal The Davee Foundation Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation DIFFA Chicago William Blair & Company Equal Justice Works Winston & Strawn LLP Evanston Community Foundation Zell Family Foundation Foundation Family Planning Associates and Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc. Corporate Foley & Lardner LLP Support Goldberg Kohn Hamill Family Foundation Hugh M. Hefner Foundation International Profit Associates Charities ITW Foundation Jenner & Block LLP Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Kahn-Abeles Foundation Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Kenneth and Harle G. Montgomery Foundation Landau Family Foundation Latkin Family Foundation Libra Foundation Lifeboat Foundation Loevy & Loevy Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation Mayer Brown LLP Miller Shakman & Beem LLP Edward and Lucy R. Minor Family Foundation

15 Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jill M. Metz* Frank Baiocchi President Brian Barrido Mary E. Brandon* Nancy S. Bishop* Michael Brody Heidi Dalenberg* Grace Chan David Goroff* Henry T. Chandler, Jr. Monique Hanson* Adam Cox Clifford P. Kelley* Hon. Barbara Flynn Currie Diane F. Klotnia* Leslie Davis Vice-Presidents Richard Gleiner The Reverend Larry L. Greenfield Kerry A. Miller* Vinni M. Hall Treasurer Harriet Hausman* Jason Heeney Roger Pascal* Ronna J. Hoffberg General Counsel Gary Isaac Laura Kofoid* Marc O. Beem* Ruth Krugly National Board Representative Scott Lassar Board of Lois J. Lipton* Directors Alexander Polikoff Janice Meister Franklyn Haiman Richard J. O’Brien Jay Miller Monica Peek Honorary Directors Mort Rosen* Lya Dym Rosenblum Marina Santini Robert Sash K. Sujata Phillip Thomas Shyni Varghese William N. Weaver, Jr* Steven Wohl

*Denotes member of the Governing Committee of the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the American Civil Liber- ties Union of Illinois, Inc. The Roger Baldwin Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization, is incorporated separately from the ACLU a 501(c)4 organization under the Internal Revenue Code. The phrase RBF/ACLU used throughout this report reflects the work of the Roger Baldwin Foundation.

16 Annual Report 2008-2009 ACLU / RBF STAFF

Colleen K. Connell Harvey M. Grossman Executive Director Legal Director

K.T. Sullivan Benjamin S. Wolf Associate Director Associate Legal Director Director, Institutionalized Persons Project Mary Dixon & Children’s Initiative Legislative Director Lorie A. Chaiten James Ferg-Cadima Director, Reproductive Rights Project Legislative Counsel John A. Knight Marcia Liss Director, GLBT & HIV Projects Development Director Barbara P. O’Toole Trisa Inzerillo Adam Schwartz Associate Development Director Gail Waller Senior Staff Counsel Brandon Bridges ACLU/RBF Grant Writer Leah Bartelt Staff Reproductive Rights Staff Counsel Jesse Larson Development Assistant Khadine Bennett Jen Saba Edwin C. Yohnka Karen Sheley Director of Communications & Public Policy Kendra Thompson Lori Turner Allie Carter Legal Fellows Senior Field Manager Ray Hughes Althea Walton Logan Turner Finance Director Legal Assistants

Sylvia Bridges Office Manager

Cristen Adams Administrative Assistant

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