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In sweeping victory, the court says the Dunleavy Administration violated the First Amendment and free speech clause of Alaska Constitution.

City no closer to delivering body-worn camera program that improves public safety.

Legal team files motion to hold City of Nome in contempt of court and for sanctions.

The ACLU of Alaska’s board of directors has chosen longtime Anchorage-based attorney and advocate, Susan Orlansky, as the part-time interim executive director for the civil liberties organization. Orlansky will lead the ACLU of Alaska team until the board selects a permanent executive director.

At the ACLU we offer this sentiment often: the Constitution is a declaration of promises. More than 200 years after the original thirteen states ratified the document that established our American experiment, that’s still all it is for many – a list of promises. While some are afforded the privileges outlined in the Constitution, too many are still fighting for their opportunity to enjoy those sacred guarantees.

The ACLU of Alaska filed a motion to compel after exhausting other efforts to collect information necessary to bring closure to Alaska Native woman dismissed by police after rape.

The State of Alaska has agreed to pay the lost wages and other damages incurred by former employee Keren Lowell, who was barred from her job at the Alaska State Council on the Arts after speaking out publicly in opposition to the Dunleavy Administration’s fiscal policies. Ms. Lowell, with the assistance of the ACLU of Alaska, had alleged that the Dunleavy Administration retaliated against her after she exercised her First Amendment rights. 

The ACLU of Alaska has asked the court to decide a lawsuit against Governor Mike Dunleavy, his former Chief of Staff Tuckerman Babcock, and the State of Alaska for illegally firing two former doctors of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute (API).

Here’s how APD can get the details right to deliver accountability, and to protect privacy.