Press Releases & News

ACLU of Arkansas Statement on the Associated Press Calling the 2024 Presidential Election for Donald Trump

In response to the federal election results, Holly Dickson, Executive Director of the ACLU of Arkansas, issued the following statement:

November 6, 2024

Civil Rights Groups Tell Federal Appeals Court that Protections for Pregnant Workers Cover Abortion Care

On Friday, a broad coalition of labor, workers’ rights, and gender justice organizations filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in support of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) regulations implementing the landmark Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

September 3, 2024

ACLU Urges Eighth Circuit to Protect Students' Right to Learn about Race in School

The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU affiliates within the Eighth Circuit, and PEN America filed a friend-of-the-court brief today in Walls v. Sanders, a First Amendment challenge to Arkansas’s ban on “prohibited indoctrination” in K-12 public schools.

August 23, 2024

Press Releases & News

ACLU of Arkansas Statement on the Associated Press Calling the 2024 Presidential Election for Donald Trump

Civil Rights Groups Tell Federal Appeals Court that Protections for Pregnant Workers Cover Abortion Care

ACLU Urges Eighth Circuit to Protect Students' Right to Learn about Race in School

Arkansas Supreme Court Reinstates Emergency Rule on Gender Markers

ACLU of Arkansas Files Lawsuit Against Town of Rose Bud to Challenge Restrictions on Canvassers

Judge Rules in Favor of ACLU of Arkansas Plaintiffs in Gender Marker Policy Case