2025 Legislative Session: Still Fighting for Kentucky
Read our summary of the 2025 Legislative Session outcomes.
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2025 Veto Period: Here are the Bills We're Asking the Governor to Veto
As the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly comes to a close, we're asking Gov. Beshear to veto bills that are unconstitutional, erode Kentuckians' civil liberties, and harm marginalized communities in the...
2024 Jail Voting Report: Expanding Pre-Trial Carceral Voting
The discourse concerning incarceration and voting generally focuses on felony disenfranchisement, which occurs after a defendant has been found guilty of a crime. But incarceration-based disenfranchisement...
Latest Press Releases
ACLU of Kentucky and ACLU-KY United Announce First Union Contract
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky and ACLU of Kentucky United — represented by the Baltimore-Washington News Guild (CWA Local 32035) — proudly announce the signing of a first union contract...
Students Sue Department of Defense Schools Over Curriculum Changes, Book Bans
Students around the globe have been impacted by censorship of materials about race and gender in military-run schools.
ACLU-KY and KYPolicy File Amicus with kentucky Supreme Court in Troutt v The Bail Project
The ACLU of Kentucky, along with independent, non-partisan research and policy organization KyPolicy, filed a motion for leave to file a “friend of the court” brief on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, supporting...
The legal fight to protect trans youth
Following the Kentucky General Assembly's passage of Senate Bill 150, our legal department has filed Doe v. Thornbury to protect trans youth in Kentucky.
Doe v. Thornbury - Challenge to Transgender Health Care Ban
We're suing in federal court to prevent the gender-affirming healthcare ban portion of Senate Bill 150, one of the worst anti-trans laws in the nation.
