ACLU-TN’s work is regularly covered by outlets across Tennessee and around the globe. Select highlights of this coverage are featured below.
Your rights are on the ballot this November — so it’s critical you vote, safely. That's why ACLU-TN is launching a statewide awareness campaign to encourage eligible Tennesseans to vote early and safely in 2020.
Tennessee’s ironically-named "safekeeping" law is used to remove certain pretrial detainees — including pregnant women, people with illnesses or mental health issues, and even young people — from local jails and to send them to state prison and other facilities if the local jail is deemed "insufficient" to house them.
The goal of Tennessee Coalition for Sensible Justice is to make our communities safer, protect taxpayers’ money, and increase accountability, all while treating fairly and with dignity those individuals who come into contact with the system.
A false narrative about slavery — that it wasn’t that bad or that extensive, that it ended conclusively more than a century ago, that the Civil War was about states’ rights or something else — has allowed America to avoid confronting the truth about our history.
The ACLU is challenging a voter purge process in Ohio, under which registered voters who do not vote during a two-year period are targeted for removal from the rolls. Until recently, Tennessee had a similar law requiring that voters who failed to vote in prior elections had their names removed — or “purged” — from the voter rolls.
By making pretrial freedom dependent on access to cash, Davidson County’s secured money bail system creates a two-tiered system of justice, incarcerating the most impoverished while wealthier arrestees are freed.
By Valerie Guenst, Special to Viewpoint All Tennessee children, regardless of their gender identity or medical conditions, should be treated with compassion and equally under the law, which is why [...]
By Wesley Roberts I love Tennessee. I was born here and raised here. I attended Tennessee public schools from kindergarten through college. I have taught our state’s wonderful children for [...]
By Gretchen Peters At 3 years-old, my son declared himself a boy. He patiently corrected me when I insisted he was wrong. In my ignorance, I didn’t understand; I thought [...]
By Justin Owen and Hedy Weinberg, Special to Viewpoint In 2012, George Reby, a professional insurance adjuster, had $22,000 in cash seized by Tennessee law enforcement. The seizing officer admitted [...]
