News & Commentary

Judge Robin Stilwell granted a temporary injunction for ACLU clients Sulaiman Ahman, Katherine West and Ben Longnecker, allowing them to register to vote using university residence halls as their address.

Because of overly-broad and vague wording of the statute, it's impossible for police to enforce it with any kind of consistency and fairness.

It's really very difficult not to blur the line between discipline and crime.

Civil rights leaders continued their call for a federal investigation of the North Charleston Police Department.

The line between school discipline and police arrest has broken down, and thousands of young people — many of them good kids who simply made a mistake — are ending up in jail, their futures tarnished.

Our Department of Juvenile Justice is in crisis. And there is an urgent need to take immediate action to ensure that the youth and staff in our juvenile facilities are safe.

    

We have called on schools and elected leaders to end arrests for minor misbehavior and fix South Carolina’s outdated and unfair “disturbing schools” law, which can lead to children arrested for being “obnoxious.”

In a situation where a police officer uses deadly force against an unarmed citizen, the public has a legitimate interest in knowing what took place and how the police officers behaved.