The ACLU of Alaska works tirelessly in the courts to defend your constitutional rights and expand your civil liberties. We specialize in impact litigation, which means that we carefully and thoughtfully represent clients in lawsuits that have the potential to not just help them, but also a large number of Alaskans.
The ACLU of Alaska filed in court to protect the due process rights of incarcerated people, like our client Mark Andrews, who are subject to the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) egregious and unlawful...
The ACLU of Alaska filed suit in state court to protect the civil rights and liberties of incarcerated people returning home and seeking transitional opportunities to reintegrate into the community after...
The ACLU of Alaska, Native American Rights Fund (NARF), and Perkins Coie are taking the State of Alaska to court after it refused to address ballot curing issues that disenfranchised thousands of voters in...
The lawsuit seeks to waive a provision of state law for the November general election that requires voters who submit a mail-in absentee ballot to have a witness sign their ballot return envelope even in...
UPDATE: On Thursday, February 20, 2020, the ACLU of Alaska, the ACLU's Racial Justice Program, and Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller & Monkman, LLP filed suit against the City of Nome,...
Marvin Roberts, Eugene Vent, Kevin Pease, and George Frese (the Fairbanks Four) collectively spent more than 70 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. Their wrongful convictions were obtained as a...