NEW ORLEANS – As book-banning and censorship efforts proliferate statewide amidst an alarming rise in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, the ACLU of Louisiana released an open letter as a resource to help the people of...
NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana and Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP – on behalf of their client Mr. Timothy Watkins – and the City of Hammond, Louisiana, today reached a settlement in a federal civil...
HOUMA – The ACLU of Louisiana has defeated qualified immunity for the fourth time. This time, against the Louisiana State Police (LSP), overcoming the enormous legal challenge in a lawsuit that also names...
Louisiana has the nation’s highest incarceration rate, and while historic reforms implemented as part of the 2017 Justice Reinvestment Package have begun to alleviate this crisis, more work must be done to reduce the state’s harmful reliance on incarceration.
