Voting Rights
The ACLU of South Carolina attempts to provide the most up to date information on all voting requirements, including voting rights for convicted felons.
The ACLU of South Carolina attempts to provide the most up to date information on all voting requirements, including voting rights for convicted felons.
A look back at history shows that women have made great strides in the fight for equality, including women’s suffrage and inroads in equal opportunity in the workplace and education.
The ACLU of South Carolina works to protect young people and students from discrimination, injustice, and violence, and to ensure that their constitutional rights -- including their rights to free speech, religious liberty, due process, equal protection, and freedom from unreasonable searches and
The ACLU of South Carolina works to ensure courts are places of redress, redemption, and justice for all.
The ACLU of South Carolina works to reduce youth incarceration and redirect resources to community-based alternatives to jail and prison.
The rights guaranteed to the accused, defendants, offenders and prisoners are fundamental political rights that protect all Americans from governmental abuse of power.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
"Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Upholding the rights of immigrants is important to us all. The fundamental constitutional protections of due process and equal protection embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights apply to every "person" and are not limited to citizens.
All police agencies -- from the state patrol to city police forces -- need to respect the rights of individuals while enforcing the law.
As technology provides new ways to gather information, surveillance options become more sophisticated and data bases proliferate, the need for privacy protections becomes more urgent.