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The Fall 2021 issue of ACLU Magazine includes feature stories that investigate America's history of racial covenants and systemic racism, showcase the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties' work to provide safe haven for asylum seekers, and highlight activists curtailing police...
This issue of ACLU Magazine spotlights the discriminatory housing practices that led to an eviction crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Kansas City activists who are fighting for tenants’ rights. It also includes feature stories on the ACLU’s work to ensure a fair and equal...
The ACLU's 2020 Annual Report provides highlights of the organization's litigation and advocacy work as it responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic across civil liberties issues, demanded justice for Black lives in the wake of an epidemic of police violence, and fought tirelessly to safeguard...
Anticipating the unprecedented surge in absentee ballots in this election, the ACLU Analytics team generated estimates of absentee voting volume by race and candidate support by vote-method in every county in the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. The team...
The ACLU’s Research Brief, “Is Sex Work Decriminalization the Answer? What the Research Tells Us,” reviews existing empirical research on the impacts of decriminalization — and conversely criminalization — of sex work to inform recommendations for policy and practice. The...
This ACLU research report, “The Other Epidemic: Fatal Police Shootings in the Time of COVID-19,” examines whether circumstances surrounding the public health crisis — unprecedented societal isolation combined with relaxed police department routine enforcement — has led to a change in...
With 2020’s high-stakes election on the horizon, this issue of ACLU Magazine discusses voting by mail and the ACLU’s work to expand access to absentee voting and safe, in-person voting options during a pandemic. It also includes feature stories on transgender youth activists in South...
When the pandemic struck, it was obvious what needed to be done: take all actions possible to “flatten the curve.” This was especially urgent in prisons and jails, which are crowded facilities where social distancing is impossible, sanitation is poor, and medical resources are extremely limited...
COVID-19 could claim the lives of approximately 100,000 more people than current projections stipulate if jail populations are not dramatically and immediately reduced, according to a new epidemiological model released by the ACLU and academic research partners. The findings indicate that — even...
This ACLU research report, A Tale of Two Countries: Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform, details marijuana arrests from 2010 to 2018 and examines racial disparities at the national, state, and county levels. Updating our previous report, The War on...
