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Yesterday, police shot Denaul Dickerson, a 33-year-old Black man on Charleston’s West Side.

Today, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a case involving a transgender teen boy who has harassed, bullied and degraded by an administrator for using the boys restroom after school one day.

Yesterday, Governor Justice signed Senate Bill 334 into law mere hours after it hit his desk. 

The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia (ACLU-WV) and Mountain State Justice, Inc. today sent a letter to Gov. Jim Justice to put his administration on notice that specific provisions in Senate Bill 334 — the legislation that seeks to all but eradicate syringe service distribution programs in West Virginia — are unconstitutional. If Governor Justice signs this legislation into law, he will be opening up the state, county commissions and city councils to liability.

Appalachian Queer Youth Summit (AQYS) members shared a letter with Governor Justice asking for a veto on HB 3293, the transgender athlete ban. 

This morning, ACLU-WV sent to Gov. Jim Justice a letter on behalf of almost 300 West Virginians that work, advocate, or volunteer with individuals who are directly impacted by injection drug use. 

The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia have urged Gov. Jim Justice to veto HB 3293, the transgender student athlete ban.

ACLU-WV would like to thank the West Virginia House of Delegates Judiciary Committee Chairman Capito and the House Judiciary Committee for making the decision to take additional time post-session to study the election process and merits of the content of Senate Bill 565, the election law amnibus bill.The bill not move forward this session after hundreds of our supporters flooded the committee with calls and emails. The bill would have eliminated the most popular day of early voting, marked voters as "inactive" for missing just one off-year election, and ended the process of Automatic Voter Registration at the DMV before it even began to be implemented. 

The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia (ACLU-WV) today provided notice to West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Roger Hanshaw and House Clerk Steve Harrison that it intends to pursue litigation against the House for yet another violation of the Open Governmental Proceedings Act.