NEW ORLEANS —Alanah Odoms, Executive Director of the ACLU of Louisiana, has released the following statement in response to Governor Jeff Landry’s signing of HB 173.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency stay today in Robinson v. Callais, pausing enforcement of a district court’s decision to strike down Louisiana’s congressional map as a racial gerrymander.

NEW ORLEANS — A jury composed of citizens of the greater New Orleans area has found that a St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon Mr. De'Shaun Johnson, son of Ms. Teliah Perkins, as he filmed the violent arrest of his mother.

NEW ORLEANS—The ACLU of Louisiana has released the following statement in response to several protests and demonstrations that have taken place on New Orleans college campuses and across the city.

SHREVEPORT—A divided panel of three federal court judges today overturned Louisiana’s congressional map that had two majority Black districts.

SHREVEPORT — The ACLU of Louisiana has released the following statement after former DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office (DPSO) Correctional Officer Javarrea Pouncy pled guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the beating of ACLU of Louisiana client, Mr. Jarius Brown.

NEW ORLEANS—A settlement has been reached on behalf of ACLU of Louisiana client, Mr. Cedric Otkins, a teacher who was stopped and had his car searched by St. Charles Parish Sheriff officers at a public park in Destrehan, LA after one of the officers claimed to smell cannabis emitting from the...

NEW ORLEANS —Professor Alexander A. Reinert, who authored the pivotal article, “Qualified Immunity’s Flawed Foundation”, has filed an amicus brief in support of Mr. Wesley Pigott and his two children in Pigott v. Gintz.

NEW ORLEANS —The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Ms. Deanna Thomas, an unhoused 56-year-old woman was handcuffed, violently thrown on the ground, and kneeled on by East Jefferson Levee District Police Department officers while being arrested for residing on a levee in Kenner, LA