News & Commentary

This week is Sunshine Week here in Ohio and across the country, a time to raise awareness of laws that keep government meetings and records open and accessible to the public.

There are many effective solutions to promote sporting fairness and equity, like ensuring equal pay among leagues and providing equitable funding for athletic programs at impoverished public schools. Targeting trans women is not one of them.

The ACLU of Ohio believes SB 29 is crucial legislation to protect the fundamental privacy of public school student across Ohio. The use of technology and educational services by schools and students to send, receive, read, and store digital information is continually and rapidly growing.

The ACLU of Ohio Supports House Bill 29 because it is a step in addressing flaws in how our state imposes driver’s license suspensions. Simply put, this is smart policy in that it recognizes that people who owe child support oftentimes need to drive in order to earn money.

To be clear, we have not one, but two big hurdles ahead. The approval process takes some time, but we still need you to join our volunteer army!

Addressing barriers to reproductive healthcare and the disproportionate risks and harms they pose to the Black community is just the first step towards addressing the systemic racism that plagues so much of our society.

Over the course of years, Ohio has been slowly untangling the quagmire of driver’s licenses suspensions in a way that gets more of us right with the law and on the road to health, education, family, and work. Senate Bill 37 is the right vehicle for these important changes.

During a time in which harmful legislation is slowly chiseling away at our democracy, HB 458 only adds another chip in the block. Rather than strengthening the ties between communities and legislators, these severe deteriorations to our election process will create chaos and confusion for voters.

In early January, Gov. DeWine signed HB 458, Ohio’s strict photo ID bill, into law. This unnecessary law has drastically changed many of the ways our elections run in Ohio, making our state notorious for barriers to ballot. Find out more about what has practically changed.