Press Releases

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.

ACLU Responds to Supreme Court Decision on Arizona Voter Law

The U.S. Supreme Court today invalidated a burdensome Arizona state documentation requirement that restricted its citizens' ability to register to vote in federal elections. A similar law in Kansas has been in effect since January of this year.