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ACLU of Louisiana Executive Director Alanah Odoms speaks to the broader context of Governor Jeff Landry's recent political moves, which include rollbacks of historic criminal legal reforms and attacks on religious freedom.

Fifth Circuit judges seemed interested in the case of Black teenagers who were stopped at gunpoint, after asking law enforcement for help while searching for a lost dog.

The legislation makes it a crime to be within 25 feet of a law enforcement officer if they have asked a person to stop approaching or to retreat.

Not only did the protests that followed Minneapolis police murdering George Floyd fail to lead to meaningful police reform, but there’s been an awful move in the opposite direction.

Eight years ago, the political stars aligned in Louisiana, paving the way for radical criminal legal reform. Now, it is all at risk.

An update on our Justice Lab initiative to put racist policing on trial

We can never bring back the lives lost to this crisis or restore the precious time it has taken, but lawmakers do have the power to prevent these tragedies in the future and restore the promise of “innocent until proven guilty.” They must use it.

Hurricane Katrina showed us that the consequences of suspending due process at a time of emergency could be disastrous.

Anthony Childs shouldn’t have had to die for Shreveport to repeal its unconstitutional ordinance. Now it’s on all of us to honor his memory by keeping up the fight against all forms of racial injustice.