The ACLU of New Hampshire receives hundreds of requests for assistance each year, but because of limited resources only a small percentage actually become ACLU cases. We are unable to take many cases, even those concerning real injustices. If your complaint is not pursued by our office, it does not mean it is without merit.
In order to request legal assistance, you must fill out an online legal intake form. This form does not give legal advice, and you should not rely on it as legal advice. This form is not an offer by the ACLU to represent you. We cannot promise you that the information you provide will lead to any specific action on the ACLU’s part. You may fill out a secure online legal intake form or you may print out a form and mail it to:
ACLU of New Hampshire Foundation
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Concord, New Hampshire 03301
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Please review this information before filing a request. Even if your complaint falls within these guidelines, filing a complaint does not guarantee that the ACLU will provide legal assistance. If you do file a complaint, please expect to wait up to 60 days before receiving a response.
The ACLU does not generally accept this kind of case:
Before accepting a case, the ACLU considers the following:
1. Does the case raise a civil liberties or civil rights issue?
Civil liberties include freedom of speech, press, religion, and association; due process; equal protection; and privacy. Civil rights include, for example, voting rights; discrimination based on disability, race, sex, sexual orientation, religion or national origin; and police reform. Because of the nature of civil liberties claims, the ACLU only rarely takes a case that does not involve the government.
2. How likely is it that a court will reach the civil liberties issue?
Generally, the ACLU takes cases that do not involve complicated disputes of fact, and prefers cases that involve questions of law only. An example of a factual dispute is an employment discrimination case in which the employer claims he fired the employee because of poor job performance and has credible evidence to support that claim, but the employee disputes the evidence and has credible evidence of her own. Because employment claims are usually very fact dependent, it is not often that the ACLU takes this kind of case.
3. The potential impact, including:
On August 22, 2016, the ACLU-NH filed an amicus brief in the case State v. Mazzaglia.
This case presented the important question of how New Hampshire courts should balance three competing...
This case challenges the Town of Salem's policy of only producing police reports if the requester pays $15 per report. This is a clear violation of Chapter 91-A and Part I, Article 8 of the New Hampshire...
ACLU-NH challenges the constitutionality of the border patrol checkpoints that occurred August and September of 2017 on Interstate 93 in Woodstock, New Hampshire.
A class-action lawsuit to halt the immediate deportation of Indonesian nationals residing in New Hampshire, most of whom have lived in the U.S. for more than a decade and now face imminent removal to...
