Many months ago, The Capital and Baltimore Sun reported about a potential lawsuit to be brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland (ACLU) against The Housing Authority of Annapolis (HACA) and our police department because of their policy banning certain individuals from visiting HACA properties. At that time I spoke with HACA Executive Director Eric Brown who indicated that he was unaware of any impending lawsuit and that he had not heard from the ACLU in that regard. ( Capital's Editor and Columnist Think ACLU is Wrong1 Feb 2009 by Paul Foer )
In a column in The Capital as recently as August 18, Eric Hartley wrote that, "Deborah Jeon, an ACLU lawyer, said the city and housing authority have refused to discuss the issue, leaving the plaintiffs no choice but to sue.