ACLU

The Missouri school district says teachers must have parental permission before referring to their students by names or pronouns that don’t match their gender assigned at birth.

Columbia Public Schools is asking a judge to dismiss Attorney General Eric Schmitt's lawsuit challenging mask mandates in classrooms. The ACLU of Missouri is also trying to intervene in the case on behalf of three children with disabilities.

A for-profit detention center in Kansas that's been plagued with violence may be trying to do an end run against a presidential executive order by moving to house immigrant detainees.

Public defenders and the ACLU sent a joint letter to the Biden administration declaring that the facility, privately owned by CoreCivic, is not meeting inmates' basic needs.

The group detailed "stabbings, suicides and even homicide" at the CoreCivic facility in Leavenworth.

The U.S. Justice Department has resumed "pattern-or-practice" investigations under the Biden administration. Kansas City activists hope such a probe could bring reforms to Kansas City Police.

Police told Theresa Taylor that if she returned to the Plaza, she'd be arrested again and held without bail.

The Missouri legislature is considering a number of proposals that would change how ballot initiatives get before voters and the requirements needed to vote.

How the Kansas Human Rights Commission is expanding LGBTQ protections that up to now only covered workers.

Prisons will now be required to treat high priority inmates regardless of cost.

Kansas prisoners are concerned about not having access to adequate hygiene and cleaning supplies, and the state ignoring other health care recommendations that would slow the spread of COVID-19.

A check-in on the the well-being of nurses working through the pandemic, incarcerated folks say health and safety recommendations are being ignored in Kansas prisons, and how a smartphone app could ease the labor of tracking positive COVID-19 cases.