The first public hearing on the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, will be broadcast live tonight at 8 p.m. The following is a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina on the significance of the public hearings.

Like Florida’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay Bill,” HB 755 is part of a national campaign to target and alienate LGBTQ students and a broader movement to exclude LGBTQ people from public life, limit what teachers can teach, and what students can learn.  

The next elected Wake County District Attorney must use the considerable power and platform of the Wake County District Attorney’s Office to advance meaningful changes to our criminal legal system that will make our community a more just, fair, safe, and equitable place for all of us.

“Abortion is a legal medical procedure and politicians have no business intruding on a person's private and personal health care decisions," said ACLU of NC Executive Director Chantal Stevens.

Despite the medical findings of health care providers engaged by DPS, prison officials continue to deny gender-affirming care to Kanautica Zayre-Brown.

Nonpartisan voter education effort will focus on the need for criminal justice reforms.

“For years, immigrant advocates and community members have raised the alarm about the horrific conditions, reports of abuse, and serious medical neglect at the Alamance County jail," said Stefania Arteaga, regional immigrants' rights strategist for the ACLU of North Carolina.

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...

For the first time since taking office in 2017, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper exercised his clemency powers to release people from prison. Upon the recommendation from the state’s Juvenile Sentence Review Board, Cooper granted clemency to three people, including April Barber, who was given ...