Press Releases

MALDEF Seeks to Intervene on Behalf of Students to Defend Kansas Tuition Policy

A Latino civil rights organization filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit seeking to eliminate regular tuition for students without lawful immigration status in Kansas, according to papers filed in federal court Wednesday.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

In New Report, ACLU of Kansas Urges Election Officials to Step Up and Combat Attacks

All Democracy is Local 2026 finds that Kansas voters’ ease of casting a ballot depends and varies widely on their local county’s policies and practices
Issue Areas: Voting Rights

ACLU of Kansas Launches Week for Democracy, Counting Down to America’s 250th Birthday

The organization will take a new action every day this week, starting with the launch of the Election Protection program

ACLU of Kansas Statement Responding to AG Kobach and DOJ Attack on Undocumented Kansas Students

“Attorney General Kobach is so determined to collude with the Trump-Vance administration that he will misuse our courts to attack the laws of the very state he serves. He does not, in fact, get to single-handedly decide who is a Kansan. Attorney General Kobach may refuse to defend all Kansas students, but the ACLU of Kansas stands firmly with them.”
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

ACLU of Kansas Calls on Johnson County Election Office to Restore Early Voting Locations

Many of the eight removed locations disproportionately served the county's low-income voters and voters of color

Kansas Lawmakers end legislative session with attack on voters, immigrants, and due process for all 

Kansas state lawmakers overrode gubernatorial vetoes last week in a broad attack on Kansans’ ability to vote, to be free from unconstitutional detention, and to protest.  

ACLU of Kansas Warns Against Kansas Lawmakers’ Multitudinal Attacks on Elections and Voters’ Rights  

Ahead of pivotal 2026 elections, the Kansas Legislature passed new provisions attacking elections and Kansas voters’ rights from a multitude of directions.

ACLU of Kansas warns against anti-immigrant driven bill undermining due process and expanding sheriff authority

The unconstitutional legislation would grant unlimited power to sheriffs and open the state to liability
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights