Press Releases

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Wisconsin Judge Dismisses Case Aiming to Out Transgender and Nonbinary Students Without Their Consent

We successfully stopped a challenge to the Madison Metropolitan School District policy to protect students’ ability to use different names or pronouns at school.

ACLU of Wisconsin Issues Recommendations About How to Increase Voting Access for Eligible Voters in Jail

The ACLU of Wisconsin Union issued a report offering jail officials a series of recommendations that would help ease barriers to jail-based voting.

Barriers Continue Preventing Eligible Voters in Wisconsin Jails From Voting, ACLU of Wisconsin Report Finds

New report "Ballots for All: Ensuring Wisconsinites in Jail Have Voting Access" finds that widespread variance across jail voting policies and a glaring lack of protocol governing voting procedures continue to disenfranchise eligible voters in Wisconsin jails.

Milwaukee Police Department Continues to Stop and Frisk Black People At a Higher Rate, Report Finds

Four years into a settlement agreement, the latest monitor report shows that the Milwaukee Police Department continues to engage in racially biased stop-and-frisk practices.

ACLU of Wisconsin Welcomes Three New Leaders To Its Organization

The ACLU of Wisconsin welcomes new Deputy Executive Director Sarah Siegel, Community Engagement Director Justice Grau, and Advocacy Director Amanda Merkwae!

ACLU of Wisconsin Praises DPI Decision In Discrimination Case Involving Burlington Area School District Student Athletes

Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction acknowledged BASD’s failure to address the racism that opposing football team members faced during a Burlington High School football game last fall.

ACLU of Wisconsin Releases Report on Immigration Enforcement in Wisconsin, Exposing the Jail-to-Deportation Pipeline

Close collaboration between Wisconsin local law enforcement and ICE is fueling the deportation of immigrants.

Federal Judge Rules That Case Alleging Milwaukee Police Department Unlawfully Arrested Two After 2016 Protests Will Go to Trial

A federal judge has rejected MPD's motion to dismiss a case brought by 2 Milwaukee residents who asserted that their rights were violated by the police when arrested following peaceful protest and mourning at the memorial site of Sylville Smith in 2016.

ACLU of Wisconsin Commends Court Decision Requiring DPI and Cedarburg School District To Include Complainant in Settlement Negotiations

Judge ruled that the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and Cedarburg School District were wrong to attempt to settle a racial harassment case without the input of the impacted family.