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When it comes to immigration and public safety, politicians running for office in 2024 tend to get it all wrong no matter if they are a Democrat or a Republican.

This is a small snapshot of evidence in our lawsuit against the state over its failure to fund public defenders. As it stands, the commonwealth, excluding the Defender Association of Philadelphia, is tied with Mississippi for dead last in per capita funding of public defenders.

After more than a decade of advocacy by the ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, Americans for Prosperity, and many others, a new state law has created new protections for Pennsylvanians from SLAPP lawsuits.

The ACLU-PA has teamed up with Legal Services of New Jersey and the UPenn to file a federal complaint with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties over the conditions at Moshannon Valley Processing Center.

We won’t stand by as right-wing school board members contract with a hate group to target the most vulnerable students to score political points.

County elections offices exist to be a resource to you and should certainly never be an obstacle to making your voice heard. Washington County has made itself an obstacle.

For thousands of voters in every election, an error on a meaningless requirement has meant that their ballots have been disqualified.

Efforts by anti-democracy politicians to stop people from voting is often a slow creep. The removal of a drop box. A push to discard a handful of mail ballots over immaterial errors. A change in policy disallowing voters to fix errors.

If you’ve been following the ACLU of Pennsylvania’s work in recent years, you may have heard about our ongoing settlement with the city of Philadelphia regarding police officers’ use of stop-and-frisk.