Protect Democracy, ACLU of Virginia, and WilmerHale filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in federal court challenging the Virginia Constitution’s felony disenfranchisement. The case claims that Virginia is in violation of the 150-year-old federal law that established the terms of Virginia’s readmission

Spotsylvania County School Board voted 4-3 this week to enact a policy empowering members and the superintendent to ban books they deem “sexually explicit.”

A federal judge allowed hundreds of Virginians in prolonged solitary confinement to join our lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections.

On March 7, 2023, the ACLU of Virginia submitted a letter on behalf of fifteen additional organizations to Governor Youngkin urging him not to sign legislation on solitary confinement currently on his desk.

Mass surveillance technologies make all Virginians less free. The ones HB 1437 and SB 1165 seek to implement would allow law enforcement to use ‘automatic license plate readers’ to collect data on every car that drives by.

In a victory for free speech and religious liberty, the After School Satan Club (ASSC) held its first meeting tonight at B.M. Williams Primary School, despite efforts by some to shut down the club and prevent it from gaining equal access to school facilities.

ACLU-VA's statement on House committee killing a bipartisan criminal legal reform bill that would establish a means for incarcerated people who have already served at least 15 years of their sentence to petition their sentencing judge for a Second Look at their sentence.

Today the ACLU of Virginia, the disAbility Law Center of Virginia, and the law firm of Brown, Goldstein, and Levy filed a complaint against the for denying equal services to people who are blind or visually impaired in custody.

ACLU-VA's statement on House committee killing two important, bipartisan criminal legal reform bills that would establish independent oversight over VDOC and provide no-cost prison communications for Virginia families.