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.
In February 2021 the ACLU of Michigan filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Michigan Supreme Court to rule that Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) prohibits discrimination against...
Some police departments in Michigan refuse to disclose citizen complaints about police misconduct, asserting that these complaints are “personnel records” exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of...
Michigan voters overwhelmingly passed Proposal 3 in 2018, which enshrined in Michigan’s Constitution the right to vote an absentee ballot in the 40 days before an election, either at home by mail or in...
Claire Mercer is a transgender woman who was sentenced to serve time in the Mason County Jail in March 2019. When jail officials learned she was transgender, they immediately placed her in solitary...