The lawsuit against Sheriff Wendell Hall, filed in the federal court in Pensacola on behalf of three inmates, claims that the policy put in place on July 26 violates the inmates’ free-speech and privacy rights and restricts their ability to communicate with their friends and family. In a federal lawsuit in 2008, the ACLU was successful in forcing the Santa Rosa School District to bring an end to decades of staff- and faculty-led prayer and religious activities in the public schools. Read more.