NEW ORLEANS — Incarcerated workers in Louisiana prisons earn between $0.02 and $0.40 an hour providing vital public service and prison maintenance services, according to a comprehensive nationwide report released by the national American Civil Liberties Union.

NEW ORLEANS — One year after the ACLU of Louisiana called for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch a pattern-or-practice investigation into misconduct by the Louisiana State Police (LSP), the Justice Department has announced it will launch a civil rights investigation. 

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Robinson v. Ardoin ruled in favor of Black voters challenging Louisiana’s newly enacted congressional map as a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana is suing the Jefferson Parish School Board and Sheriff’s Office after police placed a 10-year-old Black student with disabilities in a chokehold, dragged him, and arrested him for having an outburst at school.

NEW ORLEANS — The following statement was issued by ACLU of Louisiana Executive Director Alanah Odoms in response to reporting of a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade:

NEW ORLEANS — The American Civil Liberties Union today announced strong support of transformational legislation that would hold Louisiana’s police accountable and break the cycle of violence, racism, and corruption that has plagued the state’s law enforcement agencies for decades.

NEW ORLEANS — This past Friday, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled on two state law questions certified to it by the Fifth Circuit in a federal lawsuit against Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson.

NEW ORLEANS — The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana has filed their second lawsuit against the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, stating that several deputies racially profiled and unjustly interrogated two Black men in Bogalusa, Louisiana.

NEW ORLEANS — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit today challenging newly drawn state House and Senate district maps as unlawfully minimizing the voting strength of Black Louisianans.