ACLU of Maryland Civil Rights Tip Form
The ACLU of Maryland cannot offer legal advice or an individual responses to requests for information, advice, or representation at this time. You should submit this form to alert us of constitutional rights and civil liberties violations you have witnessed or experienced. If you are a witness, please ask the person who experienced the incident to submit this form or include their contact information in your form. Incidents reported must have occurred within the state of Maryland.
Keep In Mind
- You will not receive a response after you submit this form in most cases.
- You should review the resources on our Find Legal Help webpage to find an attorney or organization to represent you.
- If your issue involves a police encounter, you should use our Policing Self-Advocacy Toolkit on our website.
- The information you provide will not be shared with anyone without your express permission.
- We value your tips in helping us identify rights violations across the state and, in rare instances, we may contact you about taking legal action.
- This form is only for legal violation tips. To report immigration-specific tips, please use our Immigrants' Defense Tip Form. For other requests or contact, please see the Contact Us page on our website.
Disclaimer: We keep your name and identifying information confidential unless you give us permission to use it. In the rarest instance, we may be ordered to give records to a court. In those cases, we will notify you, make every effort to avoid sharing, and/or attempt to limit disclosure (for example, asking for records to be sealed or redacted).
*We use "sociopolitical race" to specify how you relate to our social structure, which is important to our legal and anti-racism analyses. For more information about race as a social construct, please see this National Museum of African American History & Culture webpage, which links to other resources.