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El programa 287(g) fomenta el establecimiento generalizado de perfiles raciales, desperdicia millones de dólares fiscales del condado de Charleston y debilita las relaciones entre la policia y las comunidades a las que sirven.

The 287(g) program encourages widespread racial profiling, wastes millions of Charleston County taxdollars, and undermines relationships between local law enforcement and the communities they serve.

2020 magnified our failures as a society. Law enforcement continued to murder Black people. Workers were forced to choose between their health and a paycheck. The integrity of our elections was systematically attacked. The list goes on.

Following our lawsuit, in September the South Carolina legislature passed legislation to allow all voters to cast absentee ballots because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

We are thrilled that the South Carolina Legislature has ended this cruel and inhumane practice, greatly increasing the likelihood of positive outcomes for incarcerated parents and their newborn children.

For the past 50 years, the ACLU of South Carolina has worked to ensure access to the ballot. This year, in the face of one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, we expanded this work to ensure that every vote counted.

The court order and the directive assured hundreds of voters that their votes would count.

Charleston County voters chose a platform that will address head-on the disproportionate burden our system places on Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor people.

There is a stark difference between the image and reality of law enforcement in South Carolina. Seven months after numerous law enforcement agencies brutalized people protesting police brutality in Charleston, the agencies still refuse to hold themselves accountable.