Restoration of Felon Voting Rights in Wyoming

Wyoming may very well become the next state to recognize the benefit to reinstating voting rights to citizens who have served their time.

By Sabrina King

Behind Bars

Legislature Introduces The Wyoming Government Discrimination Act

Legislators have introduced a bill would that would legalize discrimination against same-sex couples and transgender people, and would make it impossible for any branch or part of the government to enact or enforce local non-discrimination ordinances and federal protections for the LGBT community.

By Sabrina King

Wyoming Capitol

How Many Law Enforcement Agencies Does It Take to Subdue a Peaceful Protest?

A bill signed into law by President Bill Clinton about 20 years ago created an interstate agreement for emergency management. That agreement helped bring law enforcement agents from 10 states (including Wyoming) to the site of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.

Standing Rock

Standing Rock Updates

An update about ACLU work in Standing Rock and what you can do to help the water protectors.

ACLU in Standing Rock

The ACLU Is on the Ground in Five States - Including Wyoming - Protecting Americans’ Right to Vote This Election Day

Tomorrow the U.S. will hold the first presidential election since 1965 without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act.

Voting

ACLU Urges Justice Department To Investigate Militarized Response at Standing Rock Protest

ACLU and Leadership Conference call for an end to law enforcement response to peaceful protesters with weapons of war.

DAPL Protest MRAPS

Your vote matters. We’ll help make sure your vote counts.

In a state where every vote counts, we feel it is imperative that no citizen be blocked from voting on Election Day because of an unconfirmed suspicion of their citizenship status.

Let People Vote

ACLU of Wyoming Announces New Policy Director

The American Civil Liberties Union today announced that Sabrina King has been named Policy Director for the ACLU of Wyoming.

Sabrina King, Policy Director of ACLU of Wyoming

Crossing the Fossil Fuel Industry Could Now Get You Locked Up – For Decades

In the United States, people have the right to protest, and the press has the right to write about it. But over the past month, multiple journalists, documentary filmmakers, and activists have been arrested in three different states for engaging in and reporting on protests against fossil fuel infrastructure projects.

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