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A state judge ordered Louisiana State Police to release public records, including training materials related to interacting with people experiencing mental health issues, in the Justice Lab's excessive force lawsuit, Asante-Chioke v. Dowdle.

ACLU-LA Senior Director for Philanthropy and Community Investment, Maggy Baccinelli, and two Guaranteed Monthly Income Program participants, Janell Landry and Sandra Carr, share the impacts of reparations work on the lives of those impacted by systemic racism and oppressioN.

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.

We surveyed participants in our Guaranteed Income pilot project about the program’s impact on their lives. Here's what we've learned.

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.

When people around the world rose and demanded racial justice in 2020, they stood on the shoulders of generations of activists and organizers who had marched, fought, and died for the cause of Black lives. 

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten the lives of all Louisianans, people incarcerated in the state’s crowded prisons and jails remain among the most vulnerable to this disease.