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May 28, 2025

Kansas trans kids file lawsuit over new law banning gender-affirming care

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and the national ACLU filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Douglas County District Court on behalf of a 16-year-old trans boy and a 13-year-old trans girl. The lawsuit...

May 23, 2025

Underground Railroad site in Kansas City, Kansas, named National Historic Landmark

Rethinking Quindaro: A Kansas ACLU report shines a new light on a 'truly democratic place'

May 21, 2025

District Court Judge Calls Kansas Death Penalty Racially Biased, Costly, and Ineffective as a Deterrent

“In each of the four cases where we raised this challenge in Kansas, none of our clients ultimately faced capital trials where the death penalty remained on the table … That is no coincidence.

May 19, 2025

Trans rights quilts laid outside US Capitol building in powerful display

One panel from the Kansas chapter of the ACLU responded to the project with an image of a stick-figure family with a plaque that reads: “We want the freedom to live here,” according to the Washington Post.

May 16, 2025

Leavenworth sues to keep CoreCivic from reopening Kansas prison as ICE detention facility

Former CoreCivic employees regularly speak at city and county meetings about their negative experiences working in the closed detention center, and state organizations including the Kansas ACLU have helped...

May 9, 2025

Cities aiming to thwart immigrant detention centers wield a secret weapon: local laws

"These are types of conditions that are going to be allowed to flourish without proper oversight, with this rush to mass detention," said Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil...