Two signs are held up during the May Day March In Manhattan, New York on May 1, 2025. The largest of the signs is in the foreground and reads"We Are a Nation of Immigrants," while the smaller in the background reads, " WE ARE ALL (EXCEPT NATIVE...

Help Wanted: Oklahoma’s Immigration Crisis and the Urgent Need For Habeas Counsel

Oklahoma has a growing immigration enforcement crisis.

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Love Thy Neighbor: Defend our Communities: Protect Our Democracy, Part 1

A Voter Registration Event and Community Training! This training facilitated by Dream Action Oklahoma will give you a breakdown of the authoritarian playbook, and help prepare you to make sense of the nonsense by sharing your power and tools to make a difference in your community. ACLU-OK will also provide free voting resources and voter registration.

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Nowhere is free speech more important than on university campuses. These comics explore why student activism must be protected from censorship and government interference.

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Eight Supreme Court Cases To Watch

This term, the Court will rule in cases addressing reproductive rights, gun control, social media regulation and more hot-button issues.

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States Dust Off Obscure Anti-Mask Laws to Target Pro-Palestine Protesters

In today’s world of constant surveillance, people protesting should have the right to wear a mask

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A Mistake Shouldn’t Mean Exile or Prolonged Mandatory Detention

Nyynkpao Banyee arrived in the U.S. as a child refugee from Côte D’Ivoire in 2004. Despite his deep roots in the U.S., he is facing mandatory immigration detention and possible deportation from his family and the only home he has known.

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The Painful Reality of Being an Incarcerated Mother

This Mother’s Day, let’s not forget incarcerated women, and let’s get them home to their families.

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Remembering Joann Bell

The ACLU of Oklahoma is deeply saddened to share the passing of former executive director and lifelong defender of civil liberties, Joann Bell.

Little Axe parents and plaintiffs Joann Bell, left, and Lucille McCord, right, along with their ACLU volunteer attorney, Micheal Salem, Norman, will receive the Angie Debo Civil Liberties Award for 1983.

Oklahoma Travel Advisory

Exercise increased caution in Oklahoma due to risk of civil and constitutional rights violations.

Oklahoma Travel Advisory

Police Say a Simple Warning Will Prevent Face Recognition Wrongful Arrests. That's Just Not True.

Even when police heed warnings to take additional investigative steps, they exacerbate the unreliability of face recognition results.

A closeup of a young African American man whose face is being scanned by facial recognition software.

Five Things to Know About the Supreme Court Case Threatening Doctors Providing Emergency Abortion Care

The case will determine whether federal law protects pregnant people's right to emergency care.

A group of demonstrators holding a banner saying "Our Bodies, Our Freedom."