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A Routine Immigration Check-In Shouldn’t End in ICE Detention

“S” should have been preparing to begin his senior year of high school. Instead, the 18-year-old spent part of his summer in an immigration detention center in Georgia.

Meet Karen Anderson, New Executive Director of the ACLU-NC

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Meet Karen Anderson, New Executive Director of the ACLU-NC

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ACLU-NC Files Brief Opposing Judicial Retention Referendum Law

This month the North Carolina Supreme Court will hear arguments that ask whether a change to the election process for state Supreme Court justices is constitutional.

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My School Requires all Girls to Wear Skirts. I’m Fighting for My Right to Wear Pants.

Last year, along with some friends, I created a petition to ask my school to change its policy that says girls have to wear skirts to school or risk being punished.

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Charlotte Votes to Be a More Fair and Welcoming City

North Carolina’s largest city affirmed a basic principle on Monday night: All people deserve to be treated fairly and protected by the law.

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2016 Frank Porter Graham Award Recipient: Bob Hall

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2016 ACLU-NC Award Recipients: Abortion Providers Who Protected their Patients from Government Intrusion

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The Results Are In: North Carolina’s Law to Drug Test Work First Applicants is a Costly and Mean-Spirited Waste of Time

Early results of a new law that allows North Carolina to drug test people who apply for a program that provides temporary assistance to needy families confirm what the ACLU-NC and others argued at the time of the bill’s passage: it is a wasteful and unnecessary government invasion of privacy.

By Mike Meno

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2016 Paul Green Award Recipient: Darryl Hunt

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2016 Sharon Thompson Award Recipient: Southerners on New Ground

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