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HILLSBORO, MO — A Missouri homeowners’ association prohibition on political yard signs violates the Missouri Constitution’s free-speech guarantee, a judge ruled on Oct. 3. In a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Foundation, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Gary P. Kramer ruled that enforcement of the restriction violates the state constitution and that the Missouri statute that permits the association to enforce its covenant in court is unconstitutional.

Effective October 1, 2013, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri became the ACLU of Missouri, and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri became the ACLU of Kansas. In the face of growing challenges to civil liberties in Kansas and Missouri, this development will increase the ACLU's effectiveness and impact.

ST. LOUIS, MO — The city of Desloge cannot enforce its ban on the distribution of handbills. Members of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan—or anyone else, are free to pass out handbills in the City of Desloge. Today, United States Magistrate Judge Nannette A. Baker entered a preliminary injunction that the City of Desloge must not enforce the city ordinance that prohibits the distribution of leaflets on city streets.

Our town hall meetings with PROMO regarding marriage equality after DOMA was the subject of a story in the:

Our win in the mandatory drug testing of students at Linn State Technical College was covered by the:

A story about violent sex predators being held at the Sex Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment Services center in Farmington, Mo. ran in the

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Sept. 13, U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey ruled the mandatory drug testing policy at Linn State Technical College is unconstitutional as applied to most students.

The ACLU sent a letter to the American Board of Anesthesiology asking them to suspend the board certification of the state executioner and this was covered by the:

ST. LOUIS -- U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey ruled today that Morgan County has seven days to adopt a policy to notify senders of mail to inmates when their mail has been rejected. The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri filed a suit in July. ACLU-EM client Tara Ballenger had regularly sent printed materials, such as letters, newspaper and magazine clippings, and books to a detainee, who did not receive items she sent. Ballenger never received notice that the items were confiscated, and none of the items were returned to her.