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

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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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ACLU of Hawai‘i calls on Governor Ige to withhold National Guard troops from border duty as long as children are being separated from their parents

Honolulu, Hawai‘i: Today the ACLU of Hawai'i called on Governor David Ige to refuse to send Hawai'i National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border so long as the Trump Administration continues its unconscionable policy of separating children from their parents.

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