NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana today hailed the Louisiana Legislature’s passage of Senate Bill 146, which will limit the practice of jailing sexual assault and domestic violence victims by prosecutors.

The Louisiana Senate today voted 30-6 in favor of House Bill 518, which reforms the state’s unjust, expensive and out-of-step habitual offender statute by eliminating certain first-time, nonviolent offenses from later being eligible for sentencing enhancements.

The SPLC and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed suit today against the Trump administration for categorically denying release to hundreds of people who are languishing in immigration prisons after lawfully seeking asylum in the United States.

BATON ROUGE – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana issued the following statement regarding the 6 week abortion ban passed by the Louisiana Legislature today.

NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana today announced the winners of its first Joe Cook Memorial Essay Contest: Marc Barnes, Hannah Barback, and Reggie Bartholomew.

NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana today condemned the significant expansion of ICE detention centers in Louisiana.

NEW ORLEANS -- The City of New Orleans has agreed that it will refrain from harassing or arresting environmental activist Luke Fontana at this week’s French Quarter Festival in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana.

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.