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Abolishing restrictive monitoring is the next frontier of criminal, economic, and racial justice.

One year ago, George Floyd was brutally murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sparking the largest protests in American history. What has changed in the year since Floyd’s murder and that uprising?

Reinstating the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing regulation is an essential step the Biden Administration must take to restore critical housing protections for all.

On At Liberty, Paige Fernandez and Somil Trivedi respond to Daunte Wright’s death.

Over the past century, the ACLU’s work to combat racial discrimination has grown, evolved, and deepened.

The fact that the racial and economic oppression of Black Americans are two sides of the same coin is something we too often are reminded of.

The deployment of advanced technologies like robots often happens faster than our legal systems can adjust. We need clear policies, transparency, and democratic debate and input to ensure these technologies do not threaten civil liberties.

Trans and non-binary people often experience discrimination related to gender markers leading to a fear of violence when we must show our IDs.

Past policies have structured our society and created deeply-rooted patterns and practices that can only be disrupted and reformed with new policies of similar strength.