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Report Racist Policing
If you had a negative race-based interaction with the police on or after May 1, 2020, let us know.
Justice Lab: Putting Racist Policing on Trial
The ACLU of Louisiana’s Justice Lab: Putting Racist Policing on Trial™ is an intensive litigation and storytelling effort to challenge racially discriminatory policing practices and combat police violence against people of color. The campaign enlists for-profit law firms and law school legal clinics in bringing cases challenging racially-motivated stops and seizures under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments and any other applicable laws.
Press Releases
Sep 04, 2025
ACLU of Louisiana Condemns Plan to House Immigrants at Notorious Angola Prison
Administration's Use of Maximum-Security Criminal Facility for Civil Immigration Detention Violates Constitutional Rights
Mar 25, 2025
Human Rights Groups Publish New Guide on Legal Resources for Detained Immigrants
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On March 24, the Acacia Center for Justice (Acacia), Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR), and ACLU of Louisiana (ACLU-LA) published a new guide that trains attorneys, advocates, and grassroots organizations how to provide legal services in immigration detention.
Immigrant Rights Project
The ACLU of Louisiana's Immigrant Rights Project (IRP) aims to work with community partners to document and expose the realities of immigration detention in Louisiana by creating partnerships among directly-impacted people, private in-house counsel and/or law firms, and law school clinics, to harness their talent and resources and provide pro bono relief in the form of parole application assistance, habeas petitions, and Civil Rights and Civil Liberty complaints (“CRCL”).
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