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In the wake of media revelations that Keith Bardwell, Justice of the Peace for Tangipahoa Parish's 8th Ward, had denied a Hammond couple a marriage license on the basis of their race, the ACLU of Louisiana has written to the Louisiana Judicial Commission to call for an official investigation.
In the wake of last February's shooting death of Bernard Monroe at the hands of the Homer, LA police, the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana today reports an astonishing pattern of discrepancies in the racial composition of those arrested in Homer and in Claiborne Parish.
Conditions at the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) violate the constitutional rights of prisoners, according to the findings of an investigation into the jail by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that was prompted by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Today a Louisiana appeals court sided with the ACLU in ruling that a judge in Orleans Parish Juvenile Court had overstepped his bounds when he ordered a young man on probation to either cut his hair or go to jail.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Louisiana today challenging the Vermilion Parish School District's illegal sex segregation policy.
The Vermilion Parish School Board has agreed to rescind an unlawful plan for mandatory sex-segregated classrooms, at the request of the ACLU of Louisiana. Rene A.