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The following statement can be attributed to ACLU of Iowa Executive Director Mark Stringer regarding the Iowa Civil Rights Removal Act, HSB 242, a bill that would allow discrimination against transgender people in housing, hotels, banking, government documents, access to government services, at t
The City of Des Moines is now enacting its new ordinances that penalize people, essentially, for being homeless. ACLU of Iowa Executive Director Mark Stringer had the following statement:
Des Moines, Iowa — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa is pleased to announce that Danika Jacobsen, 19, of West Des Moines, and
St. Louis, MO — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit today upheld a temporary block on SF 2340, Iowa's worst-ever immigration law.
The following statement can be attributed to ACLU of Iowa Legal Director Rita Bettis Austen.
Important note: This lawsuit is a separate issue from the mass voter challenge we sent a letter about Friday, October 25. Those concern