Latest Media Releases/Statements

The ACLU of Mississippi can accommodate journalist inquiries into local and national issues affecting civil rights in Mississippi. To speak with an ACLU expert, please email comms@aclu-ms.org or call (601) 354-3408.

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ACLU Demands Wesson, MS School Officials Cease LGBT and Gender Discrimination Immediately

School must allow lesbian student to wear tuxedo in senior portrait

October 15, 2009

ACLU Asks Court To End Government Funding Of Religion In Mississippi Abstinence-Only Program

CONTACT: Dahlia Ward, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, 212-519-7844, dward@aclu.org;
Kristy Bennett, ACLU of Mississippi Legal Director, 601-540-6642, kbennett@aclu-ms.org.

September 9, 2009

ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Expulsion Of Middle School Student After Illegal Cell Phone Search

CONTACT: Kristy Bennett, ACLU-MS Legal Director, (601) 540-6642

September 1, 2009

ACLU of Mississippi Calls on U.S. Attorney General to Investigate Vigilantism in Sumner, MS

CONTACT:

Nsombi Lambright, ACLU of Mississippi Executive Director, (601) 354-3408; nlambright@aclu-ms.org
Derrick Johnson, NAACP State President, (601) 624-7715

August 28, 2009

New Report From ACLU And RWG Finds Racial Profiling Still Pervasive

CONTACT:

Rachel Myers, ACLU, (212) 549-2689 or 2666; media@aclu.org

Aadika Singh, RWG, (202) 296-2300 x 139; asingh@rightsworkinggroup.org

July 1, 2009

God and Abstinence

In May of 2009, the Mississippi Department of Human Services sponsored an abstinence summit in Jackson, Mississippi, using taxpayer funding to proselytize in favor of abstinence from sex before marriage programs.

June 10, 2009