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Today, the ACLU of Virginia and 22 other organizations signed on to a letter by the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC) to the Virginia House Select Committee on School Safety, calling upon the General Assembly and Governor Northam to address the Commonwealth’s school safety concerns by investing in
The ACLU of Virginia strongly objects to the Caroline County Board of Supervisors’ recent decision to enter into a contract agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to use a former county facility to hold immigrant detainees.
“This ruling will go down in history as one of the Supreme Court’s great failures. It repeats the mistakes of the Korematsu decision upholding Japanese-American imprisonment and swallows wholesale government lawyers’ flimsy national security excuse for the ban..."
The Supreme Court ruled today that the government needs a warrant to access a person’s cellphone location history.
Lawsuit brought by health care providers challenges abortion restrictions in the Commonwealth of Virginia — some of which have been on the books for over 40 years.
Today, the ACLU of Virginia sent a letter to Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam urging him to act with dispatch to ensure that Virginia’s protocols for administering the death penalty exemplify the highest standards of transparency and accountability.