Navigating a Changing Landscape: Staffer Reflects on Affirmative Action Ban

ACLU of Georgia’s Voter Access Project Fellow Evan Malbrough reflects on how he benefited from affirmative action, and the path ahead

By Jerzy Shedlock

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An Update on the Work We’re Doing Across Georgia

Here’s an update of our current and upcoming work to enhance and defend the civil rights and civil liberties of all Georgians. Short preview: we've been up to a lot.

By Jerzy Shedlock

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Summer Intern Retrospective: Ana Paula Garcia de la Cadena Valencia

The positive attitude and work ethic of Ana Paula Garcia de la Cadena Valencia was imperative to the ACLU of Georgia's advocacy work this summer.

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The Deadly and Tragic Costs of Pretrial Detention

Local officials must take action to prevent more deaths in Fulton County, Georgia's jails.

Protester with raised fist in the air at Fulton County Jail after the death of Lashawn Thompson.

ACLU of Georgia Urges Irwin County to Reject Plan to Eliminate 2 of its 3 Polling Locations

A proposal by the Irwin County Board of Elections and Registration would eliminate two much-needed polling places in the county.

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My Journey to a New Apartment: Throwing Personal Information into an Unknown Void

While searching for a new apartment in Atlanta recently, I was alarmed and stressed out by some of the information I was asked to provide. Most frightening was having to let these companies use scans of my face when I had no idea what they were going to do with the information.

By Jerzy Shedlock

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Reflecting on the Impact of Dobbs Ruling a Year Later

ACLU of Ga. Philanthropy Officer Nicole Berman remembers sitting on her couch and crying last year when the Dobbs ruling came out. She was filled with a visceral fear and despair, for all Americans who just lost bodily autonomy.

By Nicole Berman, CFRE

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For as Long as People have Sought Political Change, Actors in Power have Tried to Repress their Voices to Maintain Status Quo

As the Civil Rights Movement demanded a free and just society that Black Americans could take part in, bail funds were essential to fight back against government oppression.

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Here's How Georgia's New Voting Law Harms Voters With Disabilities

Rules in the law hit people with disabilities particularly hard because of their reliance on absentee voting. 

A sandwich board with directions posted on signs showing the way to vote outside a Cobb County voting building in Marietta, Ga.