News & Commentary

Local and national leaders in the reproductive rights field came together Thursday night to discuss the state of abortion access in the United States, with special focus on Delaware.

To understand why policing needs reform, we have to understand how we got here. That was the focus of conversation at the virtual education event held on December 1 focusing on the history of the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights (LEOBOR) hosted by ACLU Delaware and the NAACP Newark branch.

Delaware’s stark rate of imprisonment has been highlighted in studies of mass incarceration by organizations all over the country. The Sentencing Project's recent report spotlights a disparity we’ve been talking about for years.

Our final part in the series focuses on free speech and the defense of civil liberties, with a podcast that features Mary Beth Tinker discussing her student activism against the Vietnam War and our legal director Susan L. Burke's defense of the victims of the War on Terror.

Next year might be the year that casting a ballot by mail becomes a permanent reality for voters in the state. That’s what voting rights advocates are gearing up to fight for when the 151st General Assembly returns to session in January.

On October 26, 2021, we hosted a virtual panel on guardianships to bring a local spotlight on a national issue: the use of the legal system to revoke the basic rights of people with disabilities.

We took a break this week from stocking up on our Halloween candy to intimately study the drafts of new district maps set forth by Delaware’s State Senate and House of Representatives. As it turns out, the chill in the air isn’t simply the fall weather but the icy realization that several of the draft districts actually divide voter communities of interest in favor of preserving incumbents’ addresses within the proposed boundaries.

Every ten years the General Assembly is tasked with determining the boundaries of districts. The idea is that as population shifts, so, too, should the representative districts. The core of this process, though, is ensuring that each community of interest has a voice in the General Assembly.

On October 12, 2021 at 7 p.m., Seaford City Council will vote on a proposed ordinance that would restrict abortion access by requiring patients and clinics to follow medically unnecessary rules regarding disposal of fetal remains.