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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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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The Racial Wealth Gap is a Civil Liberties Issue

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.

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Robot Police Dogs are Here. Should We be Worried?

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.

A semi-autonomous robot dog walking on a sidewalk.

My Genderless ID Makes Me Feel Safe

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

Form with gender-neutral marker.