Court Cases

ACLU-NH joined as counsel for Alfredo Valentin who was wrongly arrested for criminal wiretapping for using his phone to record Manchester police officers performing their official duties on the public street outside Valentin’s home without interfering with the officers’ performance of those duties.

On January 11, 2016, ACLU-NH and NHLA filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Manchester police department’s practice of detaining, dispersing, and charging peaceful panhandlers for allegedly “obstructing vehicular traffic on public streets” under New Hampshire’s disorderly conduct statute.

The ACLU-NH filed a motion to dismiss criminal charges brought by an overly broad law passed in 2009 that restricts the legal and constitutionally-protected speech of all registered sex offenders in New Hampshire.