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The following was published as an opinion editorial by Kevin McGee, ACLU of Alaska Board Member, in the Anchorage Daily News on June 1, 2024. The original piece can be found here. 

The following was published as an opinion editorial by Mara Kimmel in the Anchorage Daily News on June 1, 2024. The original piece can be found here. 

Nearly 700 bills were introduced during the two-year legislative cycle, and many of them intersected with Alaska’s constitution. Here's how things turned out as the legislature came to a close two weeks ago.

The Senate Judiciary Committee recently unveiled a version of House Bill 66 that combines multiple bills that the legislature has debated over the last two years.

In March, the ACLU of Alaska’s Queer and Trans Justice team traveled to Juneau to attend the Just Transition Summit.

Since the Alaska legislature started its session in January, we have been working to cover a wide variety of bills that implicate Alaskans’ civil rights and liberties.

The ACLU of Alaska joined the national American Civil Liberties Union, and 18 other ACLU affiliates across the country by submitting a friend-of-the-court brief in Grants Pass v. Johnson.

On Tuesday, the House Community and Regional Affairs committee in the Alaska Legislature canceled a scheduled hearing on deaths of Alaskans in Department of Corrections (DOC) custody, which have occurred at record rates since 2022. Here's what we were going to say in testimony.

This bill does not propose to ban gender- affirming care or create criminal or automatic civil liability for physicians in Alaska who provide gender- affirming care. Still, this bill is bad for trans Alaskans, and we oppose HB 338.