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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.

ST. LOUIS — An appeals court ruled today that a challenge to the state of Missouri’s failure to provide adequate funds to educate the public and make appropriate preparations to implement its voter ID law can proceed. The voter ID law went into effect on June 1, 2017.

"Today's court decision provided needed clarity to local election officials," said Tony Rothert, legal director, ACLU of Missouri. "The Missouri Secretary of State and others sowed confusion for voters this year. We know the real threat to democracy is that not all eligible voters vote. The people should question when the government makes it harder for citizens to exercise this basic right."

The ACLU of Missouri has launched effort to educate voters about the candidates in the Cole County prosecuting attorney election this November.

The ACLU of Missouri has filed a lawsuit against a Kansas City Police officer on behalf of a man who had his legs kicked out from under him and his face smashed into the concrete by an officer after he was stopped for matching a vague description of a suspicious person in the area.