2025 Legislative Session: Still Fighting for Kentucky
Read our summary of the 2025 Legislative Session outcomes.
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2025 Veto Period: Here are the Bills We're Asking the Governor to Veto
As the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly comes to a close, we're asking Gov. Beshear to veto bills that are unconstitutional, erode Kentuckians' civil liberties, and harm marginalized communities in the...
2024 Jail Voting Report: Expanding Pre-Trial Carceral Voting
The discourse concerning incarceration and voting generally focuses on felony disenfranchisement, which occurs after a defendant has been found guilty of a crime. But incarceration-based disenfranchisement...
Latest Press Releases
ACLU-KY AND KY POLICY FILE AMICUS WITH KENTUCKY SUPREME COURT IN TROUTT V THE BAIL PROJECT
The ACLU of Kentucky, along with independent, non-partisan research and policy organization KyPolicy, filed a motion for leave to file a “friend of the court” brief on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, supporting...
ACLU-KY and Pro Bono Co-counsel File Brief Challenging Kentucky's Statute of Limitations for Civil Rights Cases
Our legal team filed a challenge to Kentucky's statute of limitations for civil rights cases.
ACLU-KY Files Brief Supporting Us DOJ Consent Decree
The ACLU of Kentucky, on behalf of itself and 14 other community organizations, on Friday filed a “friend of the court” brief in support of the negotiated consent decree the US Department of Justice entered...
The legal fight to protect trans youth
Following the Kentucky General Assembly's passage of Senate Bill 150, our legal department has filed Doe v. Thornbury to protect trans youth in Kentucky.
Doe v. Thornbury - Challenge to Transgender Health Care Ban
We're suing in federal court to prevent the gender-affirming healthcare ban portion of Senate Bill 150, one of the worst anti-trans laws in the nation.
