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ACLU of Kansas Executive Director Dr. Micah W. Kubic will be joining Mainstream for the lunch plenary, Christian Nationalism & Trump: An update on legislative & legal action. Attendees will hear about efforts by the Trump administration and Christian Nationalist allies to impose a narrow set of religious views on everyone.

In this report, we examine how monetary bail in Sedgwick County, Kansas, disproportionately punishes poverty, deepens inequality, and challenges the promise of justice. Using data from 2023–2024, we explore who is being held, why they’re being held, how long they remain in jail, and what it costs them and the community. This report reveals how a system built on presumed innocence often delivers punishment before trial—especially to the poor, women, and communities of color—and outlines why reform is both urgent and achievable.

The Criminal Justice System in Practice

A week later, thirteen local organizations are still waiting for a response to their letter urging Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett to push his office to reduce the number of individuals impacted by pretrial detention.

The attorney general’s efforts to change the law come the same week that the Kansas Supreme Court denied his effort to appeal a decision in...

On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.

Following federal ruling, gender changes on birth certificates not allowed

The Bonney Legal Fellowship is a paid summer internship in the Legal Department of the ACLU of Kansas—the civil rights litigation arm of this...

Printable booklets in English and Spanish are at the bottom of this page here. Haga clic aquí para obtener folletos imprimibles en inglés y...

Nine states are swapping voter rolls with Texas, and officials say the agreement will "improve the accuracy of voter registration records.”

Detainees in a Cottonwood Falls jail describe sleeping on the floor in overcapacity cells. Amid a national deportation surge, this jail is one of the region’s primary immigration detention centers.