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May 25, 2021

Bringing Mobile Justice to South Carolina

Jamal Sutherland, George Floyd, and Walter Scott should be alive today. We know their names despite the system’s best efforts to cover up or hide the truth. We know their names because their killings at the...
Jamal Sutherland, George Floyd, and Walter Scott should be alive today. We know their names despite the system’s best efforts to cover up or hide the truth. We know their names because their killings at the...
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mobile justice
May 20, 2021

2021 ACLU of South Carolina Post Session Report

Want to learn more about our work to protect our basic rights and liberties at the legislature? Read our summary of the legislation that the ACLU of South Carolina engaged on during this session.
Want to learn more about our work to protect our basic rights and liberties at the legislature? Read our summary of the legislation that the ACLU of South Carolina engaged on during this session.
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session
May 18, 2021

ACLU Asks Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to Investigate Discriminatory Effects of South Carolina’s Return to In Person Work Mandate

ACLU Announces Partial Victory in Related Litigation after Lead Plaintiff Granted Exemption and Governor Shifts Position
ACLU Announces Partial Victory in Related Litigation after Lead Plaintiff Granted Exemption and Governor Shifts Position
return to in person work
return to in person work
May 17, 2021

Immediate Demands from Charleston Activist Groups Regarding the Killing of Jamal Sutherland

Charleston activist groups, including the ACLU of South Carolina, Brothers and Sisters Improving Communities (BASIC), Charleston Immigrant Coalition, Black Liberation Fund,...

Charleston activist groups, including the ACLU of South Carolina, Brothers and Sisters Improving Communities (BASIC), Charleston Immigrant Coalition, Black Liberation Fund,...

Black image with white text reading "Campaign for Safe and Just Communities. It's Time to Rethink Public Safety in South Carolina." White ACLU SC logo in bottom right corner.
Black image with white text reading "Campaign for Safe and Just Communities. It's Time to Rethink Public Safety in South Carolina." White ACLU SC logo in bottom right corner.
May 12, 2021

ACLU of South Carolina Statement on Death Penalty Legislation Passed by South Carolina Legislature

Despite clear and incontrovertible evidence that South Carolina’s capital punishment system is racist, arbitrary, and error-prone, today our legislators passed a bill to keep the state’s machinery of death...
Despite clear and incontrovertible evidence that South Carolina’s capital punishment system is racist, arbitrary, and error-prone, today our legislators passed a bill to keep the state’s machinery of death...
DP
DP
May 5, 2021

H.3050 will not Rein in Abusive Policing

Each day that we pretend that procedural reforms can fix policing, more Black, Brown, and other marginalized people are harmed and killed. To truly address the problem of police violence, we must drastically...
Each day that we pretend that procedural reforms can fix policing, more Black, Brown, and other marginalized people are harmed and killed. To truly address the problem of police violence, we must drastically...
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religion