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Seize the Opportunity: 2025 General Assembly Session
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2025 General Assembly Session

As our civil rights and civil liberties face threats at the federal level, it’s even more important that we safeguard them here at home. That's what we seek to do at the 2025 General Assembly session.
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Seize the Opportunity: 2024 General Assembly Session
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2024 General Assembly Session

In 2023, Virginia voters seized the opportunity to vote their values. Now that the 2024 General Assembly session is underway, we are eager to work with a new legislature to ensure our laws and policies reflect those values.
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2023 General Assembly Session

The 2023 legislative session is going to be just as challenging. We will do whatever it takes to block the bills that seek to roll back the progress we have made. At the same time, we will be proactively pushing several bills – some new, and some we and our partners have been working on for years.

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Jan 04, 2019
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United States Constitution - Ratifies Equal Rights Amendment (2019)

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.
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Solitary confinement - Data collection and Reporting (2019)

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.
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United States Constitution - Ratifies Equal Rights Amendment (2019)

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.
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Solitary confinement - Data collection and Reporting (2019)

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.
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