Legislation

In 2022, the legislature passed legislation which allows hotels to eject patrons who use “verbally abusive language," and, at the time, we raised concerns about the broad wording of this power and the dangers of it being discriminatorily enforced.

Proving that no civil liberties victory is left unpunished, a bill which the ACLU successfully obtained amendments to in the 2023 session resurfaced again.

We voiced concerns about a bill which would allow for municipalities to substitute newspaper notifications for important electoral issues with a post on the municipality’s website.

As a state with one of the most protective Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights statutes in the country – imposing numerous barriers to disciplining wayward officers – it is long past time for significant revisions to be made to this law.

We urged enactment of a bill which would provide specific technological privacy protections for students.

Our organization closely watches legislation that could bar otherwise qualified individuals from employment on the basis of a past outdated or irrelevant criminal record.

Regardless of who a vote is for, even if it is for an inevitably losing cause, all voters fundamentally deserve the right for their votes to be counted.