Four years ago, the ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation and Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of local advocates and organizers challenging the Oklahoma Riot Statute’s definition of “riot” as unconstitutionally overbroad and vague.

Last week Governor Stitt issued an Executive Order prohibiting state agencies from funding or requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

In response to the State Board of Education voting in favor of enhancing the downgrade recommendation of accreditation for Tulsa Public Schools to ‘accredited with warning’ due to an accusation of violating Oklahoma’s classroom censorship law, HB1775, the ACLU of OK issued the following statement.

Today, a group of local advocates and organizers filed multiple challenges to Oklahoma laws and practices that chill free speech and criminalize the right to protest.

In response to Governor Stitt commuting the death sentence of Julius Darius Jones, the ACLU of Oklahoma issued the following response.