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Jan 22, 2025

Kansas lawmakers eye resolution urging governor to work with Trump on immigration

The ACLU in December announced that documents it had obtained revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was "actively considering proposals to expand its immigration detention capacity in Kansas....

Jan 22, 2025

Kansas House bill would use driver’s license records to look for voters who are not citizens

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas expressed concerns over data privacy, pandering to conspiracy theories of illegal voting and inadequate appeals processes.

Jan 9, 2025

ICE looking to expand migrant detention facilities across country, ACLU says

'It's important for the American public to know exactly what Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to do,' ACLU lawyer says.

Jan 9, 2025

Is Wyandotte County the beginning of the end of Kansas’ death penalty? Judge to decide

The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, is intervening in two capital murder cases underway in Wyandotte County, challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty as a form of punishment.

Jan 9, 2025

Kansas’ death penalty under scrutiny in pre-trial hearings in 2019 homicide case

A long-shot constitutional challenge to Kansas’ death penalty unfolding in preliminary court proceedings for a man charged in the death of four people at a Wyandotte County bar centers on claims the state’s...

Jan 8, 2025

ACLU attempts to get rid of death penalty in Kansas, again

ACLU attempts to get rid of death penalty in Kansas, again.