LAFAYETTE – The ACLU of Louisiana today demanded that Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory immediately rescind a recently-extended executive order that effectively bans protests in the downtown area.

NEW ORLEANS – Alanah Odoms Hebert, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, made the following statement about investigators’ initial decision to release Jace Boyd, a white man who admitted to fatally shooting Danny Buckley, a Black panhandler, outside a Louisiana Trader Joe’s.

LAFAYETTE – The ACLU of Louisiana released the following statement regarding the fatal shooting of a Black man by Lafayette police officers on Friday night.

NEW ORLEANS – In response to a lawsuit from the ACLU of Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Corrections provided some additional documentation but declined to produce details on the deliberations about a secretive state panel.

NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana today condemned the Louisiana Secretary of State’s proposed rollback of absentee voting eligibility in the emergency election plan submitted today. 

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.