News & Commentary

We’re in court defending Madison Metropolitan School District’s policy that grants students the autonomy to use a different name or different pronouns without being forced to disclose it to their parents. Find out why this is so important to the safety of trans youth.

Oshkosh police body camera footage shows white officers and Oshkosh Area School District administrators deliberating over how to most severely refer eleven- to thirteen-year-old students to juvenile intake.

We are excited to announce that the inaugural recipient of the Athan G. Theoharis Summer Internship Program is Sinyetta Hill.

A recent transphobic policy by the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee mirrors similar attacks in Wisconsin and across the country.

This is a perilous moment for our rights, but there are still ways to take action to support and protect abortion rights

In honor of Second Chance Month, Melissa Ludin and James Stein – two staff members of the ACLU of Wisconsin – bravely shared their personal experiences of what returning home after incarceration was actually like, and their feelings about what a second chance means to them.

National Fair Housing Month highlights how Milwaukee’s eviction crisis disproportionately restricts housing options for Black women.

The Wisconsin State Assembly passed AB 69 in 2021, a bill that would expand eligibility for the expungement of past criminal records and begin chipping away at the vast array of obstacles constructed to lock people with past convictions out of mainstream life. Unfortunately, the bill failed to pass in the Wisconsin State Senate in March 2022. 

Crime is not a monolithic problem, and jailing people cannot fix it.