Press Releases
Jun 12, 2016
ACLU Statement on Mass Shooting at Gay Nightclub in Orlando
“We stand in solidarity with the LGBT community, which appears to have been the target of this attack. Our thoughts are with those who lost loved ones and with the entire sufferi...
Jun 10, 2016
North Carolina Asks Court to Keep Anti-Transgender Provisions of HB2 in Effect
RALEIGH, N.C. — In court documents filed yesterday, North Carolina and the University of North Carolina system argued that the state’s law banning transgender people from publi...
Jun 10, 2016
North Carolina Asks Court to Keep Anti-Transgender Provisions of HB2 in Effect
RALEIGH, N.C. — In court documents filed yesterday, North Carolina and the University of North Carolina system argued that the state’s law banning transgender people from publi...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Carcaño, et al. v. Cooper, et al
Jun 10, 2016
Federal Appeals Court Orders Kansas to Register Thousands of Voters Blocked From Doing So
DENVER — A federal appeals court tonight ordered Kansas to register thousands of eligible voters who have been blocked from doing so. The state must begin registering them effect...
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Court case: Fish v. Schwab (formerly Fish v. Kobach)
Jun 07, 2016
Dreamers’ Private Information Safe for Now
Federal judge stays order demanding DACA recipients’ personal data
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Jun 06, 2016
ACLU Statement in Response to Kentucky Prison Lifting Anti-LGBT Literature Rule
KENTUCKY — The Kentucky Commissioner of Corrections has said that a minimum and medium security prison in West Liberty can no longer enforce a mail policy that prohibited prisone...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
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