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Salmah Rizvi, Executive Director and CEO, left, and Sergio Alcubilla, Director of Community Engagement at the ACLU of Hawaiʻi, are photographed Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, during an ed board meeting at Civil Beat in Honolulu. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025)

The Sunshine Interview: The Executive Director of ACLU Hawaiʻi

The group is engaged in a series of critical issues impacting the islands.

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Oct 31, 2025

Hawaiʻi Federal Court Rules that FDA’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion are Unlawful

HONOLULU, HI – In an October 30 ruling, U.S. District Judge Jill Otake held that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) imposition of medically unnecessary restrictions on the medication abortion pill, Mifepristone, violated federal law.
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Jul 14, 2021

10 Questions for the next Maui Police Chief

A letter from the ACLU of Hawaiʻi to the Maui Police Commission with ten questions that may help in selecting their new police chief. Document with links attached

graphic for ACLUʻs article on 10 questions for Mauiʻs next chief of police
Jul 09, 2021

Biden’s Domestic Terrorism Strategy Entrenches Bias and Harmful Law Enforcement Power

Biden’s strategy fails to address the wrongs, let alone reverse them.

President Joe Biden speaks behind podium to American service members in England
Jul 01, 2021

Ten Questions for the Next Chief of Police

A letter from the ACLU of Hawaiʻi to the Honolulu Police Commission with ten questions that may help in selecting our new police chief. Document with links attached

graphic for ACLUʻs article on 10 questions for Honoluluʻs next chief of police
Jun 25, 2021

Britney Spears’ Reproductive Freedom is a Disability Rights Issue

Spears’ experience is part of a long history of people with disabilities — most often people of color — being robbed of the right to control their reproductive destinies.

Britney Spears is shown arriving to the MTV Video Music Awards on June 28, 2016
Jun 25, 2021

Jailed For a Faulty Battery and Left to Catch COVID-19

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

Male prisoner attached to an Electronic Monitoring (EM) ankle monitor
May 25, 2021

The Movement to End Police Violence 1-Year after George Floyd’s Murder

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?

Protestors holding up a portrait of George Floyd
May 04, 2021

To Address Systemic Racism, We Must Dismantle Housing Discrimination and Segregation

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

New York City block of old historic apartment buildings in the East Village of Manhattan, with clear blue sky background.
Apr 16, 2021

Daunte Wright Should Never Have Been Stopped

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

Protestors demonstrate in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota after the shooting death of Daunte Wright.
Mar 17, 2021

Racial Justice and Civil Liberties: An Inseparable History at the ACLU

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

Collage of images from the racial justice cases over the ACLU's history