The ACLU of South Dakota's Communications Director would love to speak with you. Janna Farley handles queries from reporters on local, state, and national civil liberties issues. ACLU of South Dakota team members can provide information and assist journalists by lending important perspectives on issues such as LGBTQ advocacy, abortion rights, criminal justice reform, and more. Contact Janna directly at jfarley@aclu.org.
The ACLU of South Dakota supports the creation of a task force to study and make legislative proposals regarding alternatives to incarceration for those convicted of the crime of ingestion of controlled substances.
The ACLU of South Dakota opposes House Bill 1108, a bill that would prohibit gender identity or gender expression instruction to any student in kindergarten through seventh grade in South Dakota’s public schools.
The ACLU of South Dakota opposes Senate Bill 6, a bill that would require a physician to show a woman a sonogram of the fetus and force her to hear its heartbeat, if it is present, before performing an abortion.
No one is harmed by allowing transgender people to compete consistent with who they are.
The ACLU of South Dakota opposes Senate Bill 49, a bill that would void the policy by the SDHSAA to ensure that transgender student athletes can participate in high school sports and would instead restrict participation in athletic activities to the gender listed on a person's birth certificate.
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