News & Commentary

In the final hours of Crossover Day, ACLU of Georgia staff and supporters spoke with dozens of lawmakers, urging them to oppose bills that threaten Georgians’ rights.

In recent weeks, our policy team has repeatedly voiced our opposition to overbroad and punitive criminal law bills and defended constitutional rights.

Such readings shouldn’t generally be retained at all, but if they are at least privacy needs to be protected.

Lawmakers say SB 74 is about protecting children. Actually, it advances book bans and puts books about LGBTQ+ people and communities of color at risk.

The ACLU’s new Congressional Scorecard tracks how federal elected officials are voting on key legislation affecting core civil rights and constitutional freedoms.

Advocacy includes testimonies against bills that promote censorship in schools and expand criminal penalties that could chill protest. 

The ACLU of Georgia joined immigrants’ rights groups to oppose Department of Homeland Security plans to open a massive immigration detention center. 

Our latest report reveals how overcrowding at the jail has produced systemic failures that have cost at least 32 people their lives since 2021.

As in previous years, we’re watching closely and keeping civil rights front and center. Advocates have already carried out some Good Trouble Under the Gold Dome.