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The Kansas Stronger Together Coalition joined immigrant college students and civic leaders across the state of Kansas today to ask that lawmakers uphold the Kansas state law that gives immigrant students a greater opportunity to obtain higher-education.
The ACLU of Kansas and SJLC filed the federal class action lawsuit in October 2013, alleging that the Wyandotte County Jail’s “postcard-only” mail policy violated the constitutional rights of inmates and their friends and families to communicate with one another.
Yesterday, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback rescinded an executive order that prohibited discrimination against most state employees on the basis of sexual orientation – a move that the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas (ACLU-Kansas) deemed as a step backwards for civil rights in Kansas.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas welcomes Dr. Micah Kubic as its new Executive Director, effective January 5, 2015.
Judge Crabtree’s order requires stated district court clerks throughout the State of Kansas to stop enforcing Kansas’s unconstitutional prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples.
Today Chelsea Manning filed a lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia against Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and other Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of the Army officials for their failure to provide her with medically necessary treatment for her gender dysphoria.