News & Commentary

We’ve rolled into April once again and our team is hard at work making sure you know the state of Ohio’s adult-use cannabis laws. To be blunt, they haven’t improved

Laws and legislation, like HB 20, inherently cast too wide of a net, impacting First Amendment rights, even when that is not the intention.

It's Sunshine Week! Learn how have Ohio lawmakers expanded and restricted access to public records over the years.

Ohio has plenty of legitimate problems. Drag shows are not one of them.

House Bill 1 forbids the acquisition of real estate to anyone with foreign citizenship deemed a threat to Ohio, or the United States, as largely determined by one person, the Ohio Secretary of State. At its core, HB 1 is highly discriminatory and unnecessary.

The pervasive use of surveillance tools in marginalized neighborhoods contributes to an overarching erosion of privacy and biased policing. The ACLU of Ohio’s statewide Action Team is committed to safeguarding our privacy rights.

HB 347 is an unconstitutional burden on the right to reproductive choice.

HB 314 will dramatically shrink the overall ability of Ohioans to learn and know more about how their government and elected officials perform and act.

HB 487 perpetuates the failed (and very expensive) belief we can punish and incarcerate our way out of our drug problems. The ACLU of Ohio urges this committee’s rejection of House Bill 487.