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Know Your Rights: Voting in Virginia

Voting is our right and our civic responsibility. Our democracy is stronger when everyone participates. Know your voting rights and make a plan to vote as early as possible.
Know Your Rights
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Know Your Rights: Interacting with ICE in the DMV

Make an emergency plan to protect you and your family in the event of a fire, natural disaster, or an encounter with ICE.
Know Your Rights
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Know Your Rights: Voting with a Felony Conviction

Thanks to a new court ruling in an ACLU of Virginia lawsuit, thousands of people in Virginia may now be eligible to register to vote. Are you one of them?
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Press Releases

Sep 28, 2026

Federal trial to begin over allegations of prolonged isolation and torturous conditions in Virginia’s prison system

Opening statements begin October 5 in a month-long federal trial challenging a system that has held people in solitary conditions for years in Red Onion State Prison.

Sep 15, 2026

Felony disenfranchisement virtually ended for people who served their time in Virginia thanks to the implementation of a historic lawsuit

“This victory is an enormous step towards ending felony disenfranchisement in Virginia, one that Virginians can advance even further at the ballot box this fall.”

Sep 14, 2026

LGBTQ+ student organization is allowed to move forward at King George Middle School after families sue

“It should not have taken a lawsuit for the King George County School Board to do the right thing,” said ACLU-VA Staff Attorney Julia Kahn. 

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Vote YES on All Amendments

Virginians can vote on THREE ballot amendments this fall to protect our freedoms in the Commonwealth – no matter who’s in office.
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Featured Case

We are taking legal action to defend immigrants' rights, protect transgender people from discrimination, fight back against censorship efforts, and do so much more to defend civil rights and civil liberties across the Commonwealth.
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Z.J.W. v. King George County School Board

The ACLU of Virginia and Potomac Law Group filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of two students who were denied the opportunity to form a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) at King George Middle School (KGMS) even as other noncurricular student groups were allowed to operate.