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Frequently Asked Questions - Civil Rights Division
(Separate Website)
Frequently asked questions and answers about many topics such as employment and housing discrimination, disability rights, civil rights appeals, educational opportunities and voting rights.
By: U.S. Department of Justice - Civil Rights Division
Know Your Rights When Encountering Law Enforcement
(Separate Website)
This booklet addresses what rights you have when you are stopped, questioned, arrested, or searched by law enforcement officers. This booklet is for citizens and non-citizens with extra information for non-citizens in a separate section. Another section covers what can happen to you at airports and other points of entry into the United States. The last section discusses concerns you may have related to your charitable contributions and religious or political beliefs.
By: ACLU
Know Your Rights: What to do When You're Questioned or Searched By Government Officials
(Separate Website)
If any governmental official (police officer, FBI agent, IMMIGRATION official) wishes to engage you in conversation, all persons, citizens and non-citizens, have the constitutional right to remain silent and request a lawyer.
By: Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Street Speech: Your Rights in Washington to Parade, Picket and Leaflet
(Separate Website)
This pamphlet provides general information about your right to parade, picket, leaflet, circulate petitions and otherwise express your political beliefs in public. It describes the kinds of regulations on speech activities that the government may enforce and the kinds of restrictions which are not permitted by the United States and Washington Constitutions.
By: ACLU
Voting Rights Restoration in Washington State
(Separate Website)
The Washington legislature recently passed
a law that automatically restores the right
to vote to individuals convicted of felonies
when they have completed their time in prison and have served any required community custody supervised by the State Department of Corrections. This law took effect on July 26, 2009.
By: ACLU
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Spanish / Español
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