State Department Agrees To Fair Issuance of Passports To Mexican Americans
ACLU of Texas Hails Settlement Agreement. Read More...

New York Times Report on Passport Lawsuit
Citizens delivered by midwives along the U.S.-Mexico border will get to reapply for passports for free under a tentative settlement with the State Department over stalled applications. Read More...

ACLU of Texas Investigates Rainbow Lounge Incident
Today, the ACLU of Texas filed open records requests with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and the City of Fort Worth Read More...

ACLU of Texas Investigation
ACLU of Texas Investigates Complaints About Religious Freedom Violations at Navasota ISD Read More...

ACLU of Texas Lege Team Wrap-Up
ACLU of Texas Policy Director analyses the 81st Legislative session in advance of the July 1 special session. Read More...

ACLU of Texas Annual Meeting
Join us in Austin August 1. Free to members and non-members. Read More...

Fort Worth Chapter Annual Meeting July 16
ACLU of Texas Executive Director Terri Burke discusses legislative sessions and journalists talks about Rainbow Lounge raid on anniversary of Stonewall Inn uprisings. Read More...

ACLU of Texas Investigates Public Schools For Violating Students’ Religious Freedom
Today the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas filed open records requests with six public school districts to disclose information about distribution of Bibles by Gideon International as well as any other religious materials on school grounds. Read More...

FROM THE LIBERTY BLOG:
55th anniversary Brown v. Board of Education
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Will you allow voter disenfranchisement?
The Voter ID legislation you’ve probably heard about is likely to be taken up by the Texas House of Representatives for a make-or-break vote sometime before Memorial Day. Read More...

ACLU of Texas Observes World Refugee Day
On Saturday, June 20th, organizations from across Texas will be joined by the ACLU of Texas, Amnesty International and National LULAC in a vigil honoring World Refugee Day in front of the T. Don Hutto family detention center in Taylor, Texas. Read More...

Texas Supreme Court Decision Is Major Victory for Religious Freedom
ACLU of Texas Supported Pastor’s Effort to Overturn City Ordinance that Restricted Religious Freedom Read More...

ACLU of Texas Announces Community Meetings in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Distribution of “Know Your Rights” Information Planned Read More...

Supreme Court Preserves Voting Rights Act Oversight Provision
ACLU of Texas Legal Director Lisa Graybill Says Decision Helps Ensure Equal Voting Rights for All Texans Read More...

Supreme Court Hears Voting Rights Act Challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal today brought by a small municipal utility district in Austin, Texas challenging a key section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark federal law that ensured African-Americans and language minorities access to voting booths across the South and the nation. Read More...

ACLU of Texas Opposes Perkins Appointment to Pardons and Paroles Board
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas has informed Gov. Rick Perry that it opposes the nomination of Shanda G. Perkins to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Read More...

ACLU Challenges Patents on Breast Cancer Genes
On May 12, 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (PUBPAT) filed a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer are unconstitutional and invalid. Read More...

ACLU of Texas Ends Unconstitutional Prayer Policy at Corpus Christi School
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas today announced that it successfully stopped the Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD) from allowing school-sponsored elections for graduation prayer at the district's Richard King High School and other campuses. Read More...

Terrorism Finance Laws Undermine Texas Muslims’ Religious Freedom, Says ACLU
U.S. terrorism finance laws and policies unfairly prevent Muslims in Texas and around the nation from practicing their religion through charitable giving and undermine America’s diplomatic efforts in Muslim countries, according to an American Civil Liberties Union report out today. The 164-page report, “Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity,” is the first comprehensive report that documents the serious effects of Bush administration terrorism finance laws on Muslim communities, including those in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and Houston. Read More...

ACLU of Texas Continuing Legal Education Program Comes to Rio Grande Valley
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas Legal Department will offer the latest of its Continuing Legal Education seminars, this time on the University of Texas PanAmerican campus in Edinburg on Friday, June 19. The 4-hour CLE, which addresses the immigration consequences of certain criminal convictions for non-citizens, is being co-sponsored by the Hidalgo County Criminal Defense Bar Association. Read More...

Wesleyan University School of Law Call for Papers and Participation
In connection with the law school’s 20th anniversary celebration, the Texas Wesleyan Law Review is pleased to host a symposium on Friday, October 2 , 2009, on the topic of “The Role of Lawyers of Color: Past, Present & Future.” Read More...

ACLU of Texas Prevails in Crawford War Protesters Case
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) today handed down a victory for free speech when it declined to reinstate convictions against two Iraq war protesters wrongfully accused of obstructing a road near President Bush’s Crawford ranch in McLennan County. Read More...

Dallas City Council postpones daytime curfew vote
Faced with opposition from parents, business and some law enforcement, the Dallas City Council today agreed to form a study committee with opponents of the ordinance before taking a final vote on May 13. Read More...

ACLU Calls on Gov. Perry to Stop Execution
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas has asked Texas Gov. Rick Perry to halt the execution of Derrick Johnson, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday evening. Read More...

Step Up the Vote in Texas
The League of Women Voters of Texas and five advocacy groups have come together to propose non-partisan principles to replace the very partisan principles that have been offered for election reform in Texas. We are convinced that the principles that we propose would not only improve valid voter participation but would also find and address election problems, whether the problems are fraud, misinterpretation of the law or voter intimidation. Read More...

Defeat Dallas Daytime Curfew
Growing coalition opposes ordinance that would criminalize kids for going outside during the day. Read More...

ACLU of Texas Plans Freedom Files Event in Casa Linda, East Dallas
The Dallas Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU) of Texas will hold a screening of the Freedom Files’ film on torture (“Abuse of Power”), an episode of the successful ACLU documentary series now in its second season. Read More...

TRUST Principles for Practical Legislation
TRUST is a coalition of business, religious and advocacy organizations calling on the Texas Legislature and the Governor to support legislation consistent with the following principles Read More...

TRUST Calls for Practical Legislation
Texas Residents United for a Stronger Texas (TRUST) today called on state lawmakers to support legislation that encourages economic development, respect for U.S. citizen children, and embraces diversity instead of attempting to enforce federal immigration law. Read More...

Stop Voter ID
ACLU of Texas opposes Voter ID. Read More...

Why Voter ID is bad idea for all Texans
Executive Director Terri Burke told state senators that Voter ID could take away the vote from thousands of Texans. Read More...

ACLU of Texas Comments on Settlement with City of Farmers Branch for Attorneys’ Fees
Statements from Legal Director Lisa Graybill and Executive Director Terri Burke Read More...

ACLU of Texas Deferred Law Firm Associate opportunities
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, the Texas state affiliate of the national ACLU, is seeking applications from attorneys and law graduates whose law firms will sponsor them to work at public interest law organizations. Read More...

New Issue: ACLU of Texas Spring 2009 Dispatch Newsletter
The Spring 2009 issue of our DISPATCH newsletter is online and will be arriving in mailboxes statewide in the coming days. Read More...

ACLU of Texas seeks Major Gifts Officer
The Major Gifts Officer will work directly with the Director of Development, Development staff, Development Committee of the ACLU of Texas Board of Directors and other volunteers to plan, manage, and execute the fund-raising initiatives of the ACLU of Texas. Read More...

ACTION ALERT: Investigate RCDC
Call on the federal government to conduct an investigation of possible abuses at the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos. Read More...

ACTION ALERT: Support cost-saving public health measures
Now is a great time to support members of the Texas Legislature who have filed bills to remove restrictions that prevent health departments and private drug treatment professionals from operating clean syringe exchange outreach programs. Read More...

Additional Austin Screenings of "The Least of These"
The Least of These, which premiered to sold-out audiences at SXSW 2009, will be screening twice more in Austin in April Read More...

Voter ID Would Be Subject to Federal Voting Rights Act
The proposed Voter ID law would be subject to Justice Department or federal court approval if it became law, the attorney general’s office told the ACLU of Texas in a letter received Wednesday. Read More...

Request Legal Assistance/Solicitud de Asistencia Legal
Report a civil rights violation or request assistance. Solicitud de asistencia legal. Read More...