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Aug 24, 2017

ACLU of Georgia Schools Oakwood on First Amendment After Suppression of Student Protest

The ACLU of Georgia sent a letter today to the mayor and police chief of Oakwood, Georgia rebuking the city for shutting down a student protest organized by the Young Democrats of Hall County last month.
Aug 17, 2017

ACLU Appeals Case of Georgia Woman Fired for Getting Her Period at Work

In a brief filed in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia and co-counsel Buckley Beal LLP argued that their client, Alisha Coleman, was subjected to unlawful workplace discrimination when she was fired for experiencing a heavy period, a sympto