NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans-based mixed-media artist Ashley Longshore has donated $33,500 to the ACLU of Louisiana’s work to combat police violence from the proceeds of her portrait of Breonna Taylor and other works from her latest release.

NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana condemned the Louisiana Supreme Court’s refusal to review the life sentence of Fair Wayne Bryant, who was sentenced to life in prison for stealing a pair of hedge clippers more than 20 years ago.

NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans agreed not to infringe on First Amendment rights in so-called “Clean Zones” under a court-approved settlement with the ACLU of Louisiana over the 2018 arrest of an environmental activist during the French Quarter Festival. 

NEW ORLEANS – Amid a reckoning against police violence and racial injustice, 14 law school clinics and 34 law firms have, to date, partnered with the ACLU of Louisiana’s campaign to dismantle racially discriminatory policing practices.

NEW ORLEANS – Civil rights, disability rights, and fair housing advocates today again urged the Louisiana Supreme Court and Attorney General Jeff Landry to provide guidance to Louisiana Judges and Courts on their obligation to provide accommodations for people with disabilities.