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In a victory for LGBTQ+ equality, the N.C. Supreme Court upheld a Court of Appeals decision establishing that people in same-sex dating relationships cannot be excluded from domestic violence protections. The opinion in M.E. v. T.J was issued after the defendant appealed the December 2020...
“Today’s decision is one of the first applications of the Supreme Court’s ban on sex discrimination to employees of private religious schools,” said Irena Como, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. “The court sent a clear message that Charlotte Catholic...
This week, Hillsborough, Carrboro, and Chapel-Hill became the first municipalities to pass LGBTQ protection ordinances after the expiration of a state ban prohibiting local governments from enacting anti-discrimination policies.
RALEIGH, N.C. — The N.C. Department of Public Safety today transferred Kanautica Zayre-Brown to a women’s facility following months of negotiation with the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina and pressure from community members. Ms.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The State of North Carolina cannot use H.B. 142, the law that replaced H.B. 2, to prevent transgender individuals from using public restrooms and other facilities in state government buildings that match their gender under an agreement approved today by a federal court.
Following months of negotiation and pressure from the community, the N.C. Department of Public Safety today announced that it plans to transfer Kanautica Zayre-Brown to a women’s facility. Zayre-Brown, a woman who is transgender, has been incarcerated in men's facilities for more than a year.