The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courtrooms, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarentees everyone in this country.
The ACLU of Idaho advocates for the constitutional civil rights of those impacted by the criminal legal system by defending Idahoans' impacted by the state's defective public defense system and fighting for prisoners' rights.
The ACLU strives for an America free of discrimination against people with disabilities; where people with disabilities are valued, integrated members of society who have full access to education, homes, health care, jobs, families, voting, and civic engagement.
The ACLU of Idaho stands with the more than half a million Idaho renters and nearly 10,000 Idahoans who experience homelessness each year to strengthen protections against housing insecurity, stop eviction, and end the criminalization of poverty.
For years the ACLU of Idaho has actively engaged in protecting the immigrant community through fighting anti-immigrant legislation, providing public education, and elevating the stories of those directly impacted.
The ACLU of Idaho works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people can live openly without discrimination and enjoy equal rights, personal autonomy, and freedom of expression and association.
A culture of punishment, combined with race- and class-based animus, has led the United States to rely on incarceration more heavily than any other country in the world does. The politicization of our criminal legal system and a lack of evidence-based assessment result in ...