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Upon Governor Jeff Landry’s signature of the Ten Commandments bill requiring them to be posted in every public school classroom, Executive Director of the ACLU of Louisiana Alanah Odoms said they are filing a lawsuit.

A law signed by Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday makes the state the only one with such a mandate. Critics have vowed to mount a constitutional challenge.

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.

The Opelousas Massacre was one of the deadliest episodes of racist violence during the country’s second founding, and its deeper aim — to limit Black voting strength — mirrors political conflicts plaguing Louisiana more than 150 years later.

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

The ACLU of Louisiana has made regular visits to detention centers for the past two years. Here’s what we’re learning.