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NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana today sued for the release of public records about a secretive state panel that was intended to facilitate the temporary release of vulnerable people from state prisons amid COVID-19.
NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans-based mixed-media artist Ashley Longshore has donated $33,500 to the ACLU of Louisiana’s work to combat police violence from the proceeds of her portrait of Breonna Taylor and other works from her latest release.
NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana condemned the Louisiana Supreme Court’s refusal to review the life sentence of Fair Wayne Bryant, who was sentenced to life in prison for stealing a pair of hedge clippers more than 20 years ago.
NEW ORLEANS – As part of a sweeping new initiative to challenge racist policing, the ACLU of Louisiana is asking people victimized by racist policing to come forward as potential plaintiffs to challenge these unconstitutional practices.
NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana has filed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing the construction of a Formosa petrochemical plant in St.
NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans agreed not to infringe on First Amendment rights in so-called “Clean Zones” under a court-approved settlement with the ACLU of Louisiana over the 2018 arrest of an environmental activist during the French Quarter Festival.