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ACLU-WV and ACLU-WV United, the union representing most of its employees, have come to a historic agreement on a first contract. It improves wages and benefits, and helps foster a creative, equitable and inclusive workplace. We look forward to continuing the collective bargaining process.

In a recently surfaced audio recording of Westover officials from last fall, city attorney Tim Stranko is heard referring to Delegate Danielle Walker, the state’s only Black woman legislator, in misogynistic and racist terms.

On Saturday, Oct. 2, West Virginians will march to demand abortion access for all and to oppose any efforts to bring a radical, Texas-style law to West Virginia.

West Virginia wisely abolished capital punishment in 1965. But, in 2021, we are sending innocent people — those who have not even been convicted of a crime — to their deaths.

The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia (ACLU-WV) is representing in a federal lawsuit an incarcerated man who suffered injuries from being brutally pepper-sprayed while confined in his cell and posing no threat.

by Kyle Vass

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As COVID-19 infections reach a new peak in West Virginia, jail officials are unable to say how many people in state custody have been vaccinated.

When Kyle Vass was a student at Huntington High School in the early 2000s, he helped start the school's first ACLU club. Today, he's continuing to advocate for civil liberties as ACLU-WV's first investigative reporter.

It should go without saying in a representative democracy, the voters choose the leaders, and not the other way around.