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It is time to give justice reform time to work and judge it a success or failure only when real data shows which it is.

The ACLU has prepared 10 relevant and appropriate questions for Kavanaugh and are asking our senators to ask and expect answers to them before they vote on Mr. Kavanaugh’s nomination.

As President Trump closes in on his pick to replace Justice Kennedy, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska launched a six-figure TV ad buy in Alaska calling on Senator Murkowski to demand Trump’s nominee take a clear public position on a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions.

We write today to express grave concern for the health and wellbeing of Alaskan men and women in the wake of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed new rules governing the Title X family planning program.

ACLU of Alaska will be at Pride 2019 events around the state throughout June. 

This was an amazing week for the rights of Alaskans. For the first time anywhere in our nation a standalone, anti-transgender “bathroom bill” – Prop 1 – was defeated at the ballot box. And it was the voters of Anchorage who did it!

Today, we filed suit against the Palmer Police Department for unlawfully arresting a resident at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Alaska peace officers have no authority under Alaska law to detain or arrest people for being undocumented, even if ICE requests it.

Young people, just like any others, enjoy the rights to freely protest and speak under our constitution. And as the U.S. Supreme Court has long held, neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

In this day and age, it is close to impossible for anyone to get through life without using the internet. That reality is even more true here in Alaska, where larger distances separate us and we have less infrastructure to connect us.