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Waterloo, Iowa — Civil rights groups today filed a notice of appeal in their federal class action lawsuit to block the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office from wrongly extracting money from peo
The following statement can be attributed to ACLU of Iowa Executive Director Mark Stringer.
The following statement can be attributed to ACLU of Iowa Executive Director Mark Stringer regarding the Iowa Civil Rights Removal Act, HSB 242, a bill that would allow discrimination against transgender people in housing, hotels, banking, government documents, access to government services, at t
The City of Des Moines is now enacting its new ordinances that penalize people, essentially, for being homeless. ACLU of Iowa Executive Director Mark Stringer had the following statement:
Des Moines, Iowa — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa is pleased to announce that Danika Jacobsen, 19, of West Des Moines, and
St. Louis, MO — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit today upheld a temporary block on SF 2340, Iowa's worst-ever immigration law.