News & Commentary

Oct 29, 2025

ACLU-WV Launches Police Accountability Dashboard

The interactive dashboard lets users look at departmental rosters and employment history for police in West Virginia.

A map of West Virginia with red dots highlighting police departments across the state and large, black text reading "Police Accountability Dashboard"
Oct 29, 2025

Bill of Rights Brunch Set for Nov. 9 in Charleston

This year's event will honor Philip W. Carter Jr. and John R. "Jack" Magan.

Collage are in red white and blue of Lady Liberty donning a red "we the people" bandana.
Oct 29, 2025

What’s at Stake as the Supreme Court Takes Up Transgender Sports Bans

How one West Virginia teenager could shape the future of Title IX and civil rights protections for transgender youth.

Becky Pepper Jackson and her mother Heather Jackson sit on the porch of their home with their two black labs.
Sep 17, 2025

OUR STATEMENT: Removal of Exhibits at Harpers Ferry is the work of propagandists, not public servants

Administration has ordered removal of exhibits that "disparage historic Americans."

Historical photo of a formerly enslaved man whose back is covered in scars from being whipped.
Sep 04, 2025

Surveillance coming to Charleston's parks

The growing surveillance state should concern us all.

Surveillance cameras on a red and black background next to the words "Charleston to surveil nearly every city park" in white
Jul 30, 2025

Nyjilah Webb: BBB loan cap will put students in a financial chokehold

In West Virginia, tuition alone can cost more than $131,000 for out-of-state law school students and more than $78,000 for in-state.

Photo shows Nyjilah Webb, a young Black woman with shoulder length hair.
Jun 25, 2025

Indomitable spirit: Meet new staff attorney Robb Livingood

The ACLU is fortunate to have some of the best attorneys in the country taking on the government's abuses of power.

Robb Livingood, a white man with short light brown hair and a tattoo sleeve on his left arm, is pictured in a light blue shirt standing along a nature trail.
Jun 25, 2025

Lawsuit challenging $5 million grant to religious school moves forward

Court denies state of West Virginia's motion to dismiss

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Jun 19, 2025

The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ threatens lifesaving work in West Virginia

This piece was originally published on West Virginia Watch, a nonprofit newsroom covering West Virginia government and politics.

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