NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana today announced plans for an intensive litigation effort to challenge racially discriminatory policing practices and combat police violence against people of color.

NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana today warned state and local law enforcement agencies to respect the First Amendment rights of demonstrators protesting the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana is intervening on behalf of a local photographer who is being sued for defamation after documenting a New Orleans school principal wearing Nazi-associated symbols at a public protest of the removal of Confederate monuments.

NEW ORLEANS – Calling the law unconstitutional and discriminatory, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisina today sent a letter to the Shreveport City Council urging the city to repeal an ordinance that criminalizes people for wearing “saggy pants.”

NEW ORLEANS – ACLU of Louisiana executive director Alanah Odoms Hebert issued the following statement regarding a series of fires that destroyed three historically black churches in St. Landry Parish and damaged another black church in Caddo Parish.

NEW ORLEANS -- The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana today sent a letter to city of Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn demanding he immediately rescind his memo banning booster clubs that use city facilities from purchasing Nike products.