ACLU

The director of the Kansas ACLU says more people need to be aware of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's proposal to open a privately-run detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas.

La legislación permitiría que los residentes de Missouri reciban una recompensa de $1,000 por informar al Departamento de Seguridad Pública sobre las personas que se encuentren en el estado sin estatus legal.

Under the bill, the Missouri Department of Public Safety would create a system for anyone to contact authorities and accuse someone of being here without legal documentation. But accusers can remain anonymous, and there are no penalties for reporting someone who is here legally.

Judge Jerri Zhang has yet to issue her ruling in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood that seeks to strike down the state’s ban on abortions Friday, when a voter-approved amendment protecting abortion access goes into effect.

A crumbling correctional facility in Hutchinson lacks air conditioning and has small cells. State prison officials say Kansas could be sued in federal court if it doesn’t build a new facility.

The American Civil Liberties Union joins law firms to argue that capital trial juries in Kansas are racially discriminatory.

The 13-day trial included testimony from transgender minors, who — along with their families and health-care providers — challenged the constitutionality of a 2023 Missouri law restricting physicians from prescribing gender-affirming medical care to minors.

Transgender adolescents are seeking to block a Missouri law passed last year that bars them from beginning puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, arguing the ban is unconstitutional and discriminatory. The trial begins Monday.

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, a coalition of statewide abortion rights groups, has until May 5 to gather more than 171,000 signatures to get a constitutional amendment on November’s ballot. The ballot initiative would legalize abortions up to the point of "fetal viability."

Missouri has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country, but a new initiative petition would legalize the practice up to the point of "fetal viability." To qualify for the November ballot, the coalition has until May 5 to gather enough signatures from across the state.

The Girard School District Board of Education voted unanimously to remove a district dress code policy that stipulates boys’ hair cannot “touch the collar of a crew neck t-shirt … or extend below the earlobes.” The ACLU warned the policy violated religious freedom, after an 8-year-old member of the Wyandotte Nation was forced to cut his hair.

The 8-year-old boy, a member of the Wyandotte Nation, started growing his hair out after attending the Nation's annual gathering. School officials at a Gerard elementary warned his family that his hair needed to be cut to comply with the dress code, which the ACLU says violates his religious freedom.