“Virginia’s government has blatantly broken the law for more than a century by disenfranchising everyone with a felony conviction, disproportionately affecting Black and Brown Virginians,” said ACLU-VA Senior Supervising Attorney Vishal Agraharkar.

“VDOC has held hundreds of people in agonizing solitary confinement conditions indefinitely – despite the fact that officials knew they were inflicting suffering and these conditions are unconstitutional,” said ACLU-VA Senior Supervising Attorney Vishal Agraharkar.

“Just because VDOC doesn’t like the law as it’s written doesn’t mean it can go rogue and make its own,” said ACLU-VA Senior Supervising Attorney Vishal Agraharkar.

“To make her vision into a reality, the governor must terminate the state’s existing 287g agreements and Virginia lawmakers must deliver meaningful legislation to her desk to protect Virginians,” said ACLU-VA Executive Director Mary Bauer.

"Amending Virginia’s constitution is a vital part of shoring up our rights here at home and putting them firmly out of reach of partisan politics," said ACLU-VA Executive Director Mary Bauer.

"Lawmakers gave the ombudsman’s office the authority to bring transparency to VDOC, not to shield it from allegations of wrongdoing," said ACLU-VA Senior Supervising Attorney Vishal Agraharkar.

“Attorney General Jason Miyares has sided with the Department of Justice—intentionally working in secrecy and over a holiday weekend—to manufacture a predetermined outcome to deprive Virginian students of not only their futures but their day in court,” said ACLU-VA Senior Immigrants’ Rights Attorney Sophia Gregg.

"Today’s proposed rules don’t change the fact that gender-affirming care is still legal in the Commonwealth, but they do threaten hospitals that provide it," said ACLU-VA Senior Transgender Rights Attorney Wyatt Rolla.

"Our clients are following the rules they’ve been given to obtain citizenship. For the second time this week, we now have confirmation that ICE is not,” said ACLU-VA Senior Immigrants’ Rights Attorney Sophia Gregg.