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protected also blocked an additional restrictions around the country, including a total ban in Arkansas.
We blocked state legislators from enacting a law in Arkansas that would have denied gender-affirming health care to transgender youth, putting their lives at risk.
Across the country, we pushed back against a deluge of similar attacks on trans youth, helping ensure they can access health care, participate in school sports, use public restrooms in keeping with their gender identity, and live without discrimination.
argued that these bans exclude students with disabilities and underlying medical conditions from public schools—in violation of federal disability rights laws.
Creating a More Perfect Union We’re living in a time of great disruption and uncertainty, but it’s also a time of opportunity—the opportunity to redefine the status quo and the opportunity to strive to become the country we know we have the power to be.
That striving is reflected in the tireless work of our state affiliates, coalition partners, activists, and volunteers.
In the South, which has long been the epicenter of the fight for civil rights, we’re tackling everything from voter suppression and economic inequality to mass incarceration and reproductive freedom.
advocacy and grassroots movements to strengthen political participation, expand abortion access, push for reparations, and reduce prison populations—as a region.
Since the ACLU was founded in met challenges to civil liberties with strength, strategy, and resilience.
A Record of Impact The ACLU was at the center of nearly every civil liberties battle in on the ground, and rallying in the street.
“We are not alone in recognizing that America is long overdue for a racial reckoning,” said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero.
“But we are committed to using our nationwide network of litigators, advocates, and supporters, the strongest ACLU we have ever known, to dismantle white supremacy.
CONFRONTING POLICE ABUSE Disproportionate rates of police contact, combined with racial profiling, leads Black people to be killed people.
In Brooklyn Center, Minnesota—where Daunte Wright was killed by police who stopped him because of the air freshener in his windshield—we helped pass a pioneering resolution that reexamines and transforms municipal practices for achieving public safety.
We believe this resolution has the potential to alter what public safety means and looks like, and plan to bring this model to cities nationwide.
The implementation of a policy that requires police to issue citations and prohibit custodial arrests for any traffic infractions, nonfelony offense, or nonfelony warrant We’re also using litigation and advocacy to remove law enforcement from public schools, including calling on Biden to issue an executive order eliminating federal funding of police in schools.
More than disproportionately those with disabilities—are handcuffed, restrained, and arrested in schools across the nation each year.
Placing police in our schools results in the criminalization of minor infractions of school rules and perpetuates a chilling pattern of racial and disability Four years ago, the ACLU pledged our full firepower to stop the Trump administration’s unlawful and unconstitutional policies from taking hold.
history of systemic racism into a future of systemic equality.
The ACLU continues to use litigation, advocacy, grassroots mobilization, and public education to dismantle barriers to equality for people of color.
LU discrimination that endangers our children and funnels them into the school-to-prison pipeline.
For example, in South Carolina, the state’s disorderly conduct law allowed students to be criminally charged for normal adolescent behavior, including cursing, undefined “disorder,” and “boisterousness” at school.
We sued—and a district court struck down the law, preventing schools and law enforcement from criminalizing students.
The pandemic has put as many as people in this country at risk of eviction.
This is both a racial justice and a gender justice issue: Black women face eviction at twice the rate of white renters.
And once a family has been evicted, the devastating harms can follow them for years, preventing them from securing stable housing anywhere else.
In response, we expanded our evictions work to assure safe and stable housing during the pandemic and beyond.
We continued our litigation against a Trump administration rule that decimates fair housing and creates an obstacle to challenging discriminatory eviction policies that target women of color, among others.
The Biden administration has taken the first step of reviewing the rule—partially in response to our litigation—and we’ve leveraged our suit to ensure it is repealed and replaced with one that effectively addresses housing discrimination.
In Arizona, Idaho, and Missouri, we continued to take legal action to protect tenants’ rights.
And we’re campaigning to secure the right to counsel for tenants facing eviction.
AMPLIFYING INDIGENOUS JUSTICE The ACLU is going to court in places that seek to erase Indigenous presence from our history books.
In July, alongside the Native American Rights Fund, we filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of five Indian nations and plaintiffs challenging the state of Montana’s failure to fulfill its constitutional mandate to teach public school students the history and culture of Native Americans in Montana in consultation with local tribes.
Racial Justice Program Racism has played an active role in the creation of our systems of education, health care, ownership, and employment since this nation’s founding.
It’s time to meet systemic problems with systemic solutions.
That’s why the ACLU launched an ambitious effort to achieve racial justice: the Systemic Equality agenda.
It strives to dismantle systems deeply rooted in racist policies, practices, and attitudes that harm people of color.
which has plagued this country for centuries— built upon, widened, and perpetuated because of institutionalized racism.
When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in owned 0.5% of America’s wealth.
and their ability to engage in political, social, or religious expression without fear of punishment.
this is a huge victory for millions of students who attend our nation’s public schools,” said David Cole, the ACLU’s legal director who argued the case in April.
Keeping up our fight for the First Amendment, the ACLU also battled against anti-protest legislation and attacks on freedom of the press.
In the past year, nearly introduced across the nation after the protests against George Floyd’s murder.
Among them is Florida’s H.B. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
H.B. march liable for a felony if two or three people become violent.
It was the Snapchat that launched a Supreme Court case: “Fuck school.
Brandi Levy (pictured above), a high school cheerleader, posted this message to the social media platform after failing to be recruited to the varsity cheer squad.
The move got her kicked off the team.
The ACLU filed suit in order to defend the speech rights of young people like Brandi.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled in our favor, declaring that school authorities must respect students’ rights to express themselves outside of school, including their right to express dissenting or unpopular views.
Whether it’s a high school cheerleader or a civil rights protester, the ACLU is achieving major victories for everyone’s First Amendment rights.
LU Bills like these aren’t aimed at stopping violence or property destruction, as those acts are already illegal.
Their purpose is to silence people, stifle protest, and take away the constitutional freedom of assembly.
In other school-related free speech work, the ACLU condemned a nationwide attempt to censor discussions of race in the classroom.
In states such as Idaho, Louisiana, and Tennessee, we’ve opposed state lawmakers’ attempts to ban educators in public schools and universities from even discussing supposedly “divisive concepts” such as critical race theory, which explores how systemic racism is deeply ingrained in American institutions, as well as gender equality and LGBTQ rights.
This censorship wouldn’t just set back progress in addressing systemic issues—it would also rob young people of an inclusive education.
On the privacy front, the ACLU has also remained vigilant about police surveillance, a growing problem in recent years due to the technological advances of overfunded police departments.
These technologies are disproportionately used against communities of color, and the technology itself is often racially biased.
For example, face recognition systems are notoriously poor at distinguishing Black individuals, such as our client Robert Williams.
He was arrested in front of his family after one such case of mistaken identity.
The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against the police department on his behalf and awaits a decision.
In Baltimore, the ACLU won a significant legal victory against the police department’s use of aerial surveillance technology.
The program would have put virtually all residents under watch for 12 hours a day.
If successful, Baltimore would have been the first city to pilot such a program, setting a harmful precedent.
Then: Tinker v. Des Moines In Moines, Iowa, was changed forever after she wore a black armband to school.
Mary Beth Tinker was protesting the Vietnam War.
The school suspended the eighth grader along with four other students.
She didn’t know it yet, but she would eventually become a plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case.
The ACLU filed a federal suit on behalf of the students, arguing the school had infringed on their right to free expression.
In Supreme Court ruled in our favor, stating that just because someone is a student doesn’t mean they shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
The case set the constitutional precedent for students’ free speech and laid the ground- work for our latest victory on behalf of Brandi Levy.
John, display the black armbands that got them suspended from school.
9 The 2020 elections had record voter turnout, a feat partially made possible by our relentless litigation and advocacy to make voting accessible in the midst of a deadly pandemic.
In right to vote faced new threats, and the ACLU once again rose to the challenge.
This year, the Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to voting rights in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, in which the ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief, by upholding two barriers to voting in Arizona.
And in the first half of at blocking the ballot were introduced in 48 states.
Eighteen states have already successfully enacted 30 laws to restrict voting access.
The communities disproportionately burdened by these laws are always the same: Black people, Indigenous people, elderly people, students, and people with disabilities.
Black voters have made up nearly half the growth of Georgia’s electorate since last year drove a huge surge in voter turnout at the polls.
The state’s legislators responded in turn by enacting some of the most restrictive election laws in the country.
The House and Senate and signed by Governor Brian Kemp in under seven hours this spring, will effectively disenfranchise countless voters.
The measures include a ban on mobile voting, new restrictions on mail-in voting, the allowance of unlimited challenges to a voter’s registration, and narrowed requirements for voter ID.
The ACLU, the NAACP, and the Southern Poverty Law Center swiftly condemned the law in a federal lawsuit.
The suit is challenging the legislation on the grounds it violates the Voting Rights Act and infringes on the First, 15th amendments.
“This law is driven by blatant racism, represents politics at its very worst, and is clearly illegal,” said Sophia Lin Lakin, deputy director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project.
The past year has shown that we can make progress in our fight against voter suppression— no matter how daunting.
The voter suppression tactics employed in the force, and the ACLU is involved in pivotal work throughout the country, particularly in the South, to protect the right to vote.
promote fair elections by exposing and stopping gerrymandering—the drawing of voting districts to favor partisan or otherwise illegitimate outcomes.
Our organization has always had litigation capacity and expertise in voting rights, and now, we also have the technical capacity for map drawing and map analysis that forms the backbone of redistricting work—through our Data and Analytics department.
This new team of experts is evaluating and creating alternative maps that will allow us to counter current partisan gerrymandering and racist districting.
We will continue to monitor state legislatures and independent commissions to ensure they heed the fundamental principles of democracy, representation, and equality.
Voters should choose their politicians— not the other way around.
Ph ot o by S un dr y Ph ot og ra ph y/ Sh ut te rs to ck .
The ACLU is doubling down on our redistricting work to stop gerrymandering, a dangerous political practice that harms communities across the country.
We ensured accurate population counts in the case against the Trump administration’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census.
Now, ensuring fair maps is the bulk of our voting rights work in the lead up to the midterm elections.
The ACLU is striving to bring at least maps by the midterms.
When it comes to our redistricting work, we’re focusing on state legislatures, where civil liberties and civil rights laws are being made.
If those legislatures are more representative of their communities, we can soften the assaults on our rights, such as restrictions on abortion and bans on health care for transgender people.
In response, the ACLU is working with our allies to craft a coordinated legal opposition, using our media strategy to educate the public about what’s at stake and organizing people around the country to stand up for Roe.

protected also blocked an additional restrictions around the country, including a total ban in Arkansas.

We blocked state legislators from enacting a law in Arkansas that would have denied gender-affirming health care to transgender youth, putting their lives at risk.

Across the country, we pushed back against a deluge of similar attacks on trans youth, helping ensure they can access health care, participate in school sports, use public restrooms in keeping with their gender identity, and live without discrimination.

argued that these bans exclude students with disabilities and underlying medical conditions from public schools—in violation of federal disability rights laws.

Creating a More Perfect Union We’re living in a time of great disruption and uncertainty, but it’s also a time of opportunity—the opportunity to redefine the status quo and the opportunity to strive to become the country we know we have the power to be.

That striving is reflected in the tireless work of our state affiliates, coalition partners, activists, and volunteers.

In the South, which has long been the epicenter of the fight for civil rights, we’re tackling everything from voter suppression and economic inequality to mass incarceration and reproductive freedom.

advocacy and grassroots movements to strengthen political participation, expand abortion access, push for reparations, and reduce prison populations—as a region.

Since the ACLU was founded in met challenges to civil liberties with strength, strategy, and resilience.

A Record of Impact The ACLU was at the center of nearly every civil liberties battle in on the ground, and rallying in the street.

“We are not alone in recognizing that America is long overdue for a racial reckoning,” said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero.

“But we are committed to using our nationwide network of litigators, advocates, and supporters, the strongest ACLU we have ever known, to dismantle white supremacy.

CONFRONTING POLICE ABUSE Disproportionate rates of police contact, combined with racial profiling, leads Black people to be killed people.

In Brooklyn Center, Minnesota—where Daunte Wright was killed by police who stopped him because of the air freshener in his windshield—we helped pass a pioneering resolution that reexamines and transforms municipal practices for achieving public safety.

We believe this resolution has the potential to alter what public safety means and looks like, and plan to bring this model to cities nationwide.

The implementation of a policy that requires police to issue citations and prohibit custodial arrests for any traffic infractions, nonfelony offense, or nonfelony warrant We’re also using litigation and advocacy to remove law enforcement from public schools, including calling on Biden to issue an executive order eliminating federal funding of police in schools.

More than disproportionately those with disabilities—are handcuffed, restrained, and arrested in schools across the nation each year.

Placing police in our schools results in the criminalization of minor infractions of school rules and perpetuates a chilling pattern of racial and disability Four years ago, the ACLU pledged our full firepower to stop the Trump administration’s unlawful and unconstitutional policies from taking hold.

history of systemic racism into a future of systemic equality.

The ACLU continues to use litigation, advocacy, grassroots mobilization, and public education to dismantle barriers to equality for people of color.

LU discrimination that endangers our children and funnels them into the school-to-prison pipeline.

For example, in South Carolina, the state’s disorderly conduct law allowed students to be criminally charged for normal adolescent behavior, including cursing, undefined “disorder,” and “boisterousness” at school.

We sued—and a district court struck down the law, preventing schools and law enforcement from criminalizing students.

The pandemic has put as many as people in this country at risk of eviction.

This is both a racial justice and a gender justice issue: Black women face eviction at twice the rate of white renters.

And once a family has been evicted, the devastating harms can follow them for years, preventing them from securing stable housing anywhere else.

In response, we expanded our evictions work to assure safe and stable housing during the pandemic and beyond.

We continued our litigation against a Trump administration rule that decimates fair housing and creates an obstacle to challenging discriminatory eviction policies that target women of color, among others.

The Biden administration has taken the first step of reviewing the rule—partially in response to our litigation—and we’ve leveraged our suit to ensure it is repealed and replaced with one that effectively addresses housing discrimination.

In Arizona, Idaho, and Missouri, we continued to take legal action to protect tenants’ rights.

And we’re campaigning to secure the right to counsel for tenants facing eviction.

AMPLIFYING INDIGENOUS JUSTICE The ACLU is going to court in places that seek to erase Indigenous presence from our history books.

In July, alongside the Native American Rights Fund, we filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of five Indian nations and plaintiffs challenging the state of Montana’s failure to fulfill its constitutional mandate to teach public school students the history and culture of Native Americans in Montana in consultation with local tribes.

Racial Justice Program Racism has played an active role in the creation of our systems of education, health care, ownership, and employment since this nation’s founding.

It’s time to meet systemic problems with systemic solutions.

That’s why the ACLU launched an ambitious effort to achieve racial justice: the Systemic Equality agenda.

It strives to dismantle systems deeply rooted in racist policies, practices, and attitudes that harm people of color.

which has plagued this country for centuries— built upon, widened, and perpetuated because of institutionalized racism.

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in owned 0.5% of America’s wealth.

and their ability to engage in political, social, or religious expression without fear of punishment.

this is a huge victory for millions of students who attend our nation’s public schools,” said David Cole, the ACLU’s legal director who argued the case in April.

Keeping up our fight for the First Amendment, the ACLU also battled against anti-protest legislation and attacks on freedom of the press.

In the past year, nearly introduced across the nation after the protests against George Floyd’s murder.

Among them is Florida’s H.B. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

H.B. march liable for a felony if two or three people become violent.

It was the Snapchat that launched a Supreme Court case: “Fuck school.

Brandi Levy (pictured above), a high school cheerleader, posted this message to the social media platform after failing to be recruited to the varsity cheer squad.

The move got her kicked off the team.

The ACLU filed suit in order to defend the speech rights of young people like Brandi.

In June, the Supreme Court ruled in our favor, declaring that school authorities must respect students’ rights to express themselves outside of school, including their right to express dissenting or unpopular views.

Whether it’s a high school cheerleader or a civil rights protester, the ACLU is achieving major victories for everyone’s First Amendment rights.

LU Bills like these aren’t aimed at stopping violence or property destruction, as those acts are already illegal.

Their purpose is to silence people, stifle protest, and take away the constitutional freedom of assembly.

In other school-related free speech work, the ACLU condemned a nationwide attempt to censor discussions of race in the classroom.

In states such as Idaho, Louisiana, and Tennessee, we’ve opposed state lawmakers’ attempts to ban educators in public schools and universities from even discussing supposedly “divisive concepts” such as critical race theory, which explores how systemic racism is deeply ingrained in American institutions, as well as gender equality and LGBTQ rights.

This censorship wouldn’t just set back progress in addressing systemic issues—it would also rob young people of an inclusive education.

On the privacy front, the ACLU has also remained vigilant about police surveillance, a growing problem in recent years due to the technological advances of overfunded police departments.

These technologies are disproportionately used against communities of color, and the technology itself is often racially biased.

For example, face recognition systems are notoriously poor at distinguishing Black individuals, such as our client Robert Williams.

He was arrested in front of his family after one such case of mistaken identity.

The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against the police department on his behalf and awaits a decision.

In Baltimore, the ACLU won a significant legal victory against the police department’s use of aerial surveillance technology.

The program would have put virtually all residents under watch for 12 hours a day.

If successful, Baltimore would have been the first city to pilot such a program, setting a harmful precedent.

Then: Tinker v. Des Moines In Moines, Iowa, was changed forever after she wore a black armband to school.

Mary Beth Tinker was protesting the Vietnam War.

The school suspended the eighth grader along with four other students.

She didn’t know it yet, but she would eventually become a plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case.

The ACLU filed a federal suit on behalf of the students, arguing the school had infringed on their right to free expression.

In Supreme Court ruled in our favor, stating that just because someone is a student doesn’t mean they shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

The case set the constitutional precedent for students’ free speech and laid the ground- work for our latest victory on behalf of Brandi Levy.

John, display the black armbands that got them suspended from school.

9 The 2020 elections had record voter turnout, a feat partially made possible by our relentless litigation and advocacy to make voting accessible in the midst of a deadly pandemic.

In right to vote faced new threats, and the ACLU once again rose to the challenge.

This year, the Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to voting rights in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, in which the ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief, by upholding two barriers to voting in Arizona.

And in the first half of at blocking the ballot were introduced in 48 states.

Eighteen states have already successfully enacted 30 laws to restrict voting access.

The communities disproportionately burdened by these laws are always the same: Black people, Indigenous people, elderly people, students, and people with disabilities.

Black voters have made up nearly half the growth of Georgia’s electorate since last year drove a huge surge in voter turnout at the polls.

The state’s legislators responded in turn by enacting some of the most restrictive election laws in the country.

The House and Senate and signed by Governor Brian Kemp in under seven hours this spring, will effectively disenfranchise countless voters.

The measures include a ban on mobile voting, new restrictions on mail-in voting, the allowance of unlimited challenges to a voter’s registration, and narrowed requirements for voter ID.

The ACLU, the NAACP, and the Southern Poverty Law Center swiftly condemned the law in a federal lawsuit.

The suit is challenging the legislation on the grounds it violates the Voting Rights Act and infringes on the First, 15th amendments.

“This law is driven by blatant racism, represents politics at its very worst, and is clearly illegal,” said Sophia Lin Lakin, deputy director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project.

The past year has shown that we can make progress in our fight against voter suppression— no matter how daunting.

The voter suppression tactics employed in the force, and the ACLU is involved in pivotal work throughout the country, particularly in the South, to protect the right to vote.

promote fair elections by exposing and stopping gerrymandering—the drawing of voting districts to favor partisan or otherwise illegitimate outcomes.

Our organization has always had litigation capacity and expertise in voting rights, and now, we also have the technical capacity for map drawing and map analysis that forms the backbone of redistricting work—through our Data and Analytics department.

This new team of experts is evaluating and creating alternative maps that will allow us to counter current partisan gerrymandering and racist districting.

We will continue to monitor state legislatures and independent commissions to ensure they heed the fundamental principles of democracy, representation, and equality.

Voters should choose their politicians— not the other way around.

Ph ot o by S un dr y Ph ot og ra ph y/ Sh ut te rs to ck .

The ACLU is doubling down on our redistricting work to stop gerrymandering, a dangerous political practice that harms communities across the country.

We ensured accurate population counts in the case against the Trump administration’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census.

Now, ensuring fair maps is the bulk of our voting rights work in the lead up to the midterm elections.

The ACLU is striving to bring at least maps by the midterms.

When it comes to our redistricting work, we’re focusing on state legislatures, where civil liberties and civil rights laws are being made.

If those legislatures are more representative of their communities, we can soften the assaults on our rights, such as restrictions on abortion and bans on health care for transgender people.

In response, the ACLU is working with our allies to craft a coordinated legal opposition, using our media strategy to educate the public about what’s at stake and organizing people around the country to stand up for Roe.