RALEIGH – North Carolina lawmakers approved major setbacks to voting access, privacy rights, and LGBTQ equality during the General Assembly’s 2017-18 session, according to a legislative report card released today by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina.

RALEIGH – State lawmakers today approved placing a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that, if passed by voters, will require voters to show a photo ID in order to cast a ballot in future elections. The General Assembly would have the authority to decide which IDs would be allowed.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court announced today it will not review a ruling that found the county commissioners of Rowan County, North Carolina, violated the Constitution by coercing members of the public to join in prayers that overwhelmingly advanced beliefs specific to one religion.

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Three people incarcerated in North Carolina prisons who suffer from Hepatitis C filed a federal class-action lawsuit against state officials today, arguing that North Carolina’s Department of Public Safety refuses to provide medically necessary, life-saving treatment.

RALEIGH – Late last night, North Carolina lawmakers rewrote Senate Bill 325 to limit early voting options for North Carolinians. The bill eliminates the last Saturday of early voting, when more than 100,000 voters have historically cast their ballot, a disproportionate number of whom are Black.

RALEIGH – The N.C. House of Representatives voted to approve a bill that would give local law enforcement sweeping, unprecedented power to look through a person’s entire history of prescription drug use if they are under investigation for any drug crime.

RALEIGH – North Carolina House Representative Beverly Boswell has agreed to release un-redacted public records of her office correspondence in response to a public records lawsuit filed by a Kitty Hawk resident and the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.