NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana issued the following statement today regarding New Orleans’ updated plan to require some businesses to collect the contact information of their patrons as part of the city’s contact tracing process. 

WASHINGTON – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and ACLU of Louisiana today filed a motion for contempt challenging ICE’s unlawful denial of release on parole to detained asylum seekers.

NEW ORLEANS – In a letter sent to the Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court today, a coalition of civil rights groups warned against restarting eviction proceedings and urged courts to take additional steps to protect vulnerable populations and ensure compliance with the ADA.

The report combines quantitative and qualitative data from visits to five detention centers including three in Louisiana.

WASHINGTON — Last night, a federal judge dismissed our class action lawsuit against Warden Rodney Myers and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Michael Carvajal, filed on behalf of incarcerated people at the Oakdale Federal Correctional Institution in Oakdale, Louisiana.

NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana issued the following statement regarding the amended emergency election plan, which severely limits the circumstances under which voters will be allowed to vote by mail. 

NEW ORLEANS – Amid a rising death toll from COVID-19 at Louisiana prisons and jails, a new data model shows that COVID-19 could claim the lives of approximately 100,000 more people nationwide