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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.

ACLU-NC Wins Victory for a Pregnant Worker and Her Family

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ACLU-NC Wins Victory for a Pregnant Worker and Her Family

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ACLU Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho to Keynote ACLU-NC's April 2 Liberty Awards Dinner

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ACLU Brief: Keep Local Government Meetings Open and Welcoming to People of All Beliefs

The Rowan County Commissioners have conducted their public meetings in a way that has not only made many residents feel unwelcome and unequal but has also coerced those in attendance to take part in prayers that do not comport with their personal religious beliefs.

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One Year After Marriage Equality in NC

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Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Alamance Sheriff Far From Over

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it would appeal a judge’s decision to dismiss charges of discriminatory profiling and other civil rights abuses filed against Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson

By Mike Meno

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North Carolina Appeals Court Strikes Blow to Privacy Rights

By Mike Meno

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ACLU-NC's Chris Brook Honored with LGBT Center of Raleigh's Community Impact Award

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Closing Arguments Set to Begin in Challenge to North Carolina's Restrictive Voting Law

Over the past weeks, we heard about the hurdles that voters faced to cast their vote under the suppressive law North Carolina instituted almost two years ago.

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Votes Not Counted: Day One of North Carolina’s Voter Suppression Trial

The ACLU and other groups were in federal court for the first day of arguments against North Carolina’s 2013 voter suppression law, which many court observers have called the most restrictive voting law in the nation.

By Mike Meno

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