News & Commentary

“Today’s indictment is an important step in addressing the culture that has allowed the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to consistently behave in an unconstitutional manner. While these officers have been indicted for illegally abusing an undercover officer they mistook for a protestor, there has still been no real accountability for the individual officers who engaged in the same behavior toward protestors. St. Louis officials must address this rampant lawlessness by its police.”-- Tony Rothert, legal director, ACLU of Missouri

ACLU of Missouri has a long and proud history of championing the rights of our LGBTQ communities. The first LGBT rights case was brought by the ACLU in 1936, well before equality was considered a cultural norm. But we don’t fight for cultural norms. We fight for the dignity that the Constitution guarantees to all people – and that puts our organization at the forefront of advocacy for many.

The Missouri Department of Corrections has changed its execution witness-selection procedure policy as part of a settlement following law a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Missouri in 2016 on behalf of BuzzFeed News investigative journalist Chris McDaniel.

Wentzville, Mo. – The city of Wentzville has updated its city code and publicly committed to respect freedom of speech and the separation of church and state in a resolution read aloud tonight as part of a lawsuit settlement agreement with the ACLU of Missouri.

Trans and GNC people show us a centuries-old lesson in how to bend and not break.

Dear Mr. Thompson:

COLE COUNTY, Mo. – Cole County voters took to the polls to elect Locke Thompson as the first new prosecuting attorney in 12 years. A community’s prosecuting attorney is the single most powerful individual who shapes what justice looks like.

Your vote is your voice.

Jefferson City, Mo. – Today a coalition of organizations asked the court to immediately stop enforcement of a new Missouri law that prohibits “misrepresenting” a product as “meat” unless it comes from a slaughtered animal. Under the law, Tofurky and other plant-based producers must either upend their entire marketing and packaging practices or risk criminal prosecution and jail time.