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Know Your Rights: Interacting with ICE in the DMV

Make an emergency plan to protect you and your family in the event of a fire, natural disaster, or an encounter with ICE.
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LGBTQ+ Voices: Freedom to be Breanna & Narissa

Breanna and Narissa got married in Virginia in 2023. Now, they’re fighting to enshrine marriage equality in the Virginia Constitution. Here’s their story.
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Stay informed about significant bills in Virginia's 2026 legislative session that will impact Virginians' civil rights and liberties.
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Mar 09, 2026

Today Virginia can begin the process of implementing historic ruling to dismantle Jim Crow era voting restrictions

“The court stood firm on its historic ruling in King v. Youngkin, paving the way for thousands of disproportionately Black Virginians to reclaim voting rights back that should never been stripped in the first place,” said ACLU-VA Senior Supervising Attorney Vishal Agraharkar.

Feb 04, 2026

Ending 287(g) agreements protects Virginia’s immigrant communities and makes us all safer

“Together, Virginia is speaking with one voice: we will not be coopted into carrying out the Trump administration’s brutal and legally dubious anti-immigrant agenda,” said ACLU-VA Policy Director Chris Kaiser.

Jan 29, 2026

ACLU FOIA litigation reveals ICE actively considering opening six new immigration detention centers

“Abuse and civil rights violations are rampant in these facilities, and the public has a right to know where and how the government intends to expand its use of these deadly facilities," said ACLU-VA Senior Immigrants' Rights Attorney Sophia Gregg.

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Know Your Rights: Interacting with ICE in the DMV

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Featured Case

We are taking legal action to defend immigrants' rights, protect transgender people from discrimination, fight back against censorship efforts, and do so much more to defend civil rights and civil liberties across the Commonwealth.
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King v. Youngkin

The ACLU of Virginia, Protect Democracy, and WilmerHale on the behalf of individual plaintiffs Melvin Wingate, Tati Abu King, and Toni Heath Johnson, as well as Bridging the Gap In Virginia, filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in federal court challenging the Virginia Constitution’s felony disenfranchisement provision. The case, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, claims that Virginia is in violation of the 150-year-old federal law that established the terms of Virginia’s readmission to representation in the United States Congress after the Civil War.