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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.

May 20, 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

May 18, 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 Network, Charleston BLM, Black Voters Matter, and Lowcountry Action Committee,

May 17, 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 moving. The death penalty is modern-day lynching. It must be abolished.

May 12, 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 reduce the size, scope, and role of police in South Carolina.

May 5, 2021

Support S.295 - Ensure People are Judged on their Merits, not Mistakes

This legislation is a win-win. It makes us safer, strengthens our economy, and better ensures that South Carolinians are judged on their merit, not their mistakes.

May 5, 2021