Press Releases

Marriage Equality on the Doorstep of Reality for Kansas

“We will continue to work until all loving couples in Kansas are able to commit to each other and take care of each other with the protections that only come with marriage."

Kansas counties will no longer automatically honor federal immigration hold requests

“[W]e have ceased recognizing any “probable cause” authority in the I-247 form, and have notified ICE of our decision,” wrote Brian W. Cole, Director of the Shawnee County Department of Corrections. “It is our desire never to hold a person beyond the period for which proper lawful authority exists.”

ACLU Protests Creationism Assemblies in the Hugoton Public Schools in Hugoton, Kansas

The United States Supreme Court and the lower federal courts have consistently held that teaching or otherwise promoting creationism is, simply put, unconstitutional. 

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: COSTLY, INEFFECTIVE, AND DANGEROUS

Weatherford spoke in opposition to SB 330, which would mandate solitary confinement for all inmates serving life, life without parole, and death penalty sentences.

ACLU Challenges Kansas' Two-Tiered Voter Registration System

"This case is about people who have done everything they are supposed to do – complied with all legal requirements for voter registration – but are arbitrarily being denied the right to vote in state and local elections simply because of the form they used."

ACLU Settles Election Dispute with Receiver for the Benton County Sewer District No. 1

"Political speech and the right to vote are at the core of the Constitution’s protections for our Democracy. When a governmental body decides to ignore the will of the voters by refusing to seat a duly elected candidate, our democratic form of government is imperiled."

ACLU of Kansas Supports Safeguard on Use of Drones For Surveillance Purposes

Unregulated, however, drone operations could interfere with residents’ reasonable expectation of privacy and chill First Amendment-protected activities.

Demand Repeal of Voter Suppression

Kansas’ documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement is preventing thousands of Kansas citizens from completing the registration process for no good purpose,

ACLU Threatens Legal Action if Kansas Fails to Comply With Federal Voting Law

The American Civil Liberties Union today put Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on notice that it will take legal action if the state does not comply with federal voting law.