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Each year during the General Assembly session, the ACLU of Virginia works to support legislation that expands or protects our civil liberties and fights against bills that infringe on our freedoms. The ACLU of Virginia tracks hundreds of bills each session.
The 2019 General Assembly session will convene Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 for a 45-day session.
The ACLU of Virginia strongly supports restoring the presumption of innocence to our criminal justice system. We must end the practice of holding people in jail who have not been convicted of a crime and are not a demonstrable risk to public safety.
The ACLU of Virginia strongly supports ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifying the ERA is an important step toward achieving full gender equity and will provide the highest level of constitutional protection against sex-based discrimination.
The ACLU of Virginia strongly supports amending the state constitution to positively affirm the right to vote for all citizens who are over 18 and meet Virginia residency requirements.
The ACLU of Virginia strongly supports requiring the Virginia Department of Corrections to collect and report data on how many people are held in solitary confinement, why they were placed there, for how long, and whether they are a member of a vulnerable population.
Reports and information from the 2017 General Assembly session.
