Media Releases & Statements

ACLU of Iowa’s Robert Mannheimer Youth Advocacy Award Deadline Nov. 3

Des Moines, Iowa — Nominations are now open for the ACLU of Iowa Mannheimer Youth Advocacy Award. The deadline is Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, and the winner receives a $500 prize.

September 3, 2024

ACLU Urges Eighth Circuit to Protect Students' Right to Learn about Race in School

ST. LOUIS — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU affiliates within the Eighth Circuit, and PEN America filed a friend-of-the-court brief today in Walls v. Sanders, a First Amendment challenge to Arkansas’s ban on “prohibited indoctrination” in K-12 public schools.

August 22, 2024

Appeals Court Sends Case Challenging Iowa’s Book Ban and “Don’t Say LGBTQ” Law Back to Lower Court, Delaying Relief for Iowa Students

St. Paul, Minnesota – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit sent a lawsuit challenging two provisions of Iowa’s SF 496—the book ban and “don’t say LGBTQ” provisions – back to a lower court, allowing the law to take effect just before students go back to school.

August 9, 2024

Media Releases & Statements

ACLU of Iowa’s Robert Mannheimer Youth Advocacy Award Deadline Nov. 3

ACLU Urges Eighth Circuit to Protect Students' Right to Learn about Race in School

Appeals Court Sends Case Challenging Iowa’s Book Ban and “Don’t Say LGBTQ” Law Back to Lower Court, Delaying Relief for Iowa Students

Des Moines Should Reconsider Heartless Ordinance Punishing People who are Homeless

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Cities, Including in Iowa, to Punish Unhoused People from Sleeping in Public

Iowans Will Soon Lose Access to Most Abortions as Iowa Supreme Court Announces that Abortion Ban Can Take Effect