The ACLU of Michigan files lawsuits that impact people’s rights by setting a legal precedent, or affecting the policies and actions of public officials. Our current Fall 2024 Legal Docket details our legal cases and actions taken in 2023-2024.
The Camden-Frontier School District had the dubious distinction of being the only school district in Michigan that retained a name and imagery associated with indigenous people by using the name “Redskins”...
In December 2021 a Michigan Court of Appeals judge published an opinion in which he insulted transgender people and declared his refusal to “conform to the wokeness of the day” by respecting the pronouns...
The purpose of Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is to provide transparency in government, so that the people of Michigan have can fully participate in the democratic process. But that purpose is...
Beginning in 2022 a new wave of hostility to freedom of thought and inquiry erupted throughout the country, including in Michigan, as right-wing organizations and parents intensified efforts to ban books...