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The Missouri Nondiscrimination Act is a bill that has been introduced into the Missouri legislature for 21 years straight but unfortunately has never passed. It is far beyond time for our legislature to pass the bill and protect Missouri residents from discrimination.

The ACLU of Missouri tracks hundreds of pieces of legislation every session. This tracker includes both bills that advance civil liberties and those that pose significant threats. We hope you will follow along with us (subscribe to this list above!) and take action to protect our freedoms.

Conversion therapy is a danger to LGBTQ+ Missourians, but widespread efforts to bring attention to its horrors and put a stop to it, have already begun to save many.

St. Louis County’s latest legal maneuvers in the case of Keith Wildhaber, a police sergeant who was discriminated against based on his sex and sexual orientation, is a hypocritical effort to dodge responsibility for a discriminatory workplace that County officials allowed to fester.

At the ACLU of Missouri, we dream, we believe in, and we demand a future where our 25,000 transgender Missouri neighbors can rely on their constitutional rights.

Kansas City, MO - In 2016, the ACLU of Missouri filed a Sunshine Law suit against the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) and the McDonald County Prosecuting Attorney for failing to release public records related to the 1994 shooting of Corporal Bobbie J. Harper, an MSHP Trooper. Today, the family will finally receive access to previously withheld records in the possession of MSHP.

Keeping track of what your state government is up to can be tiresome and confusing. We've made it easy by creating an ACLU priority bill tracker that you can subscribe to and follow here.

Breaking the school to prison pipeline takes work from each of us. You need to know how to take action. Our children need you to act- now.

This gathering was special. But then again, so were all of them. From Thursday to Sunday, July 18-20, the Trans Leadership Table ‘19 gathered for the last time to learn, grow and network. Studying legislative strategy, updating headshots, and even receiving media training from a former TV reporter -- this is just a short list of what this group of 15 Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (GNC) leaders experienced together over the course of a year and multiple gatherings. What members of the Trans Leadership Table 2019 accomplished that time has created a powerful foundation for work to come.