The University of Oklahoma (“OU”) Board of Regents is canceling diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across campus, all under the guise of “enforcing” the Governor’s anti-DEI Executive Order. But in fact, the Executive Order is only a convenient excuse the Board of Regents.

Civil rights groups today challenged Oklahoma’s HB 4156, a far-reaching, harmful new law that would create a state system to regulate immigration that completely bypasses and conflicts with federal law and would have dramatic consequences for Oklahoma communities.

In response to Governor Stitt signing into law one of the country's most extreme anti-immigrant bills, the ACLU of Oklahoma issued the following statement.

In response to the death of 16-year-old Owasso High School student Nex Benedict following an assault in the school restroom, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Oklahoma, and Lambda Legal issued the following joint statement.

ACLU affiliates issue a response to Republican governors’ escalation on immigration enforcement.

Lawyers representing transgender adolescents and their parents will urge the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to reverse a lower court’s denial of an injunction of SB 613, an Oklahoma law banning medical care for trans youth, at a hearing Wednesday, January 17 at 9:00 a.m. MT.

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

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) affiliates of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, Arizona, Texas and San Diego and Imperial Counties are issuing a travel advisory for their residents about the threat of civil and constitutional rights violations when traveling in the state of Texas.

Lawyers representing transgender adolescents and their parents urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to reverse a lower court ruling that denied a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of Oklahoma’s discriminatory law banning gender-affirming medical care.