March 6: Panel Discussion on School Funding Fairness in Nevada

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 5, 2014

LAS VEGAS, NV – A panel discussion on Thursday, March 6 will discuss a new national report released by the Education Law Center that examines the fairness of education funding across the country. The report, released on February 5, 2014, looks at whether a state’s education funding system ensures equal education opportunity and accounts for needs generated by student poverty. Nevada’s education funding scheme was found to be the most regressive in the country.

National Solitary Confinement Experts to Address the Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 4, 2014

LAS VEGAS, NV – The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is hosting two prominent, national experts on solitary confinement, Martin Horn and Dr. Terry Kupers. On Wednesday, March 5, Horn and Kupers will speak at the Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice (ACAJ) meeting to emphasize the importance of collecting information on Nevada’s use of solitary confinement in an interim study about detention and incarceration in Nevada.

ACLU of Nevada and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights File Challenge to Voter ID Initiative

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 20, 2014

CARSON CITY, NV – On Thursday, February 20, 2014 the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) filed a challenge to the “Voter ID Initiative,” a measure which seeks to amend the Nevada Constitution to require voters to present photographic proof of identity before casting a ballot. The lawsuit, Rosati, et al. v. Our Vote Nevada PAC, was filed in the First Judicial District Court for the State of Nevada.

Campaign Launches to Win Marriage in Nevada

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 13, 2014

RENO AND LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Today, in an effort to remove discrimination from Nevada’s Constitution and win the freedom to marry for all couples in the state, ACLU of Nevada, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, the Human Rights Campaign, and Freedom to Marry launched a grassroots public education campaign called Freedom Nevada. The move is in anticipation of an expected 2016 ballot measure on marriage and comes as a high-profile court case on marriage is advancing rapidly through the judicial system.

Washington Governor Halts Executions

February 11, 2014

Washington state Governor Jay Inslee declared on February 11 that he will impose a moratorium on executions in the state. A previous supporter of capital punishment, Inslee spent a year reviewing Washington’s death penalty and found that the system is full of flaws. “When the ultimate decision is death,” said Inslee in his official statement, “there is too much at stake to accept an imperfect system.”