ACLU of Hawaiʻi attorney Leilani Stacy has filed several winning habeas petitions. (Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2026)

Locked Up Too Long? Legal Tactic Challenges Hawaiʻi ICE Detentions

Joaquin David Rico-Tapia had been held at Honolulu’s Federal Detention Center for six weeks when his attorney filed a special petition last September arguing he had been illegally detained as his deportation case went forward.

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ACLU of Hawaiʻi Takes No Position in Grassroot Institute of Hawaii v. Lopez

The civil liberties organization remains neutral on the constitutional questions in the pending case.
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We're Here to Stay: Black Trans Futures

In Alabama, Black trans folks are building community, and their futures.

Trans activists Ro Robinson and Aadhya.

Quiz: What You Need to Know About Fair Housing

Housing discrimination is still rampant around the country — take our quiz on how it has been perpetuated over the years and what we’re doing to fight back.

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This Week, Anti-Abortion Extremists Showed Us Who They Really Are

Lawmakers are bending the democratic process and ignoring their constituents to push health care out of reach.

Protesters advocating reproductive rights gather at the State Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Justice and Safety, Not Fear, Continue to Win at the Ballot Box

In Pennsylvania and across the country, voters are electing candidates who offer solutions and hope, not fear and failure.

Election workers handle ballots at the Allegheny County Election Division warehouse in Pittsburgh.

Why Indigenous Students Are Fighting to Wear Tribal Regalia at Graduation

To wear tribal regalia is to reclaim Indigenous identity and honor ancestors who could not do the same.

Isabella Blu Aiukli Cornell and Sarah Adams-Cornell.

Why Fair Housing is Key to Systemic Equality

Here’s how discrimination continues to impact access to housing today, and why we're fighting to ensure all people have equal access.

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A Peoples' Budget Invests in Building Safe, Healthy, Equitable Communities Over Incarceration and Criminalization

ACLU of Hawai‘i Statement Relating to the State Budget (HB300 HD1 SD1 CD1)

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The Sneaky Way the Police Could Abuse Their Power to Restrict Free Speech

The Supreme Court needs to hear a case out of Texas in order to protect people arrested for exercising their constitutional right to free expression and protest.

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911: Reimagining a System that Defaults to Dispatching Police

Emergency response systems must be revamped to equip 911 call-takers to dispatch non-police first responders.

911 digits on a mobile screen.