Check out the latest news on ACLU-TN’s efforts to protect and promote civil liberties and civil rights in Tennessee.
After more than 37 years as ACLU-TN executive director, Hedy Weinberg announced that she is stepping down.
A bill that would have prohibited gender-affirming health care for trans minors was sent to a general subcommittee, stopping it from proceeding any further this year.
Our statement on the bill targeting so-called “obscene” materials in public school libraries.
We sent open records requests seeking info about the governor’s partnership with the private, out-of-state Christian institution Hillsdale College to establish a number of publicly funded charter schools in Tennessee.
In an effort to defend academic freedom, we sent an open records request regarding the McMinn County Board of Education’s recent decision to remove “Maus.”
We and our partners sent letter to Shelby County officials demanding that the county stop bail practices that violate the constitutional and statutory rights of people arrested in Shelby County.
We and our partners filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Tennessee law excluding transgender youth from participating in school sports.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit blocked a Tennessee ban on abortion starting at approximately six weeks into pregnancy.
Learn more about elected prosecutors' power to shape the criminal legal system and incarceration rates, and to advocate for district attorney transparency and accountability.
A federal court ruled that a decree requiring the Shelby County sheriff to fix dangerous pandemic conditions at the jail must remain in place.
