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Last updated on November 13, 2025

ACLU of Nevada’s Firewall for Freedom campaign is both a proactive and responsive strategy to protect our rights and our people from unlawful federal interference.

What is ACLU of Nevada’s Firewall for Freedom Campaign?

Across the nation, the federal government is attempting to dismantle long-standing protections for free speech, privacy, equality, and democracy. But freedom doesn’t just live in the courts or in Washington. It begins right here, in Nevada. Our cities, counties, and communities can be the first line of defense against federal overreach.

ACLU of Nevada’s Firewall for Freedom campaign is both a proactive and responsive strategy to protect our rights and our people from unlawful federal interference. When local leaders refuse to be complicit in unconstitutional acts, when city councils pass protections, and when neighbors look out for each other, that’s how democracy endures. Local policies, local leadership, and local courage can stop unconstitutional federal actions before they take root.

Our Strategy

Building a Firewall for Freedom won’t happen from one single tactic. It’s an organized, statewide defense plan that combines lawyers, policymakers, advocates, and community members into one coordinated effort to stop unconstitutional overreach before it hits our communities.

  • Legal Defense: Challenging unlawful federal actions and coercive tactics through the courts.
  • Policy Advocacy: Working with state and local officials to pass laws and ordinances that block unconstitutional overreach.
  • Public Engagement: Investing in community education to ensure Nevadans understand their rights and protect one another.

The Four Pillars of our FIREwall for Freedom

Our Firewall for Freedom campaign stands on four essential pillars – putting the FIRE in our Firewall.

F - First Amendment

Free speech isn’t partisan, it’s patriotic. Nevada’s strength lives in our freedom to speak, assemble, and dissent without fear.

As federal officials ramp up surveillance and threaten to criminalize dissent, Nevada must strengthen local protections for protesters, journalists, and digital privacy. We’re not here to tell you what to say or what not to say. We’re here to ensure you have a right to engage in constitutionally protected speech devoid of government censorship.

ACLUNV’s FIREwall for Freedom exists to say: Nevadans will not be silenced for speaking truth to power.

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I - Immigrants' Rights

We protect immigrants because we protect Nevadans.

Our communities thrive when families are safe, workers are respected, and neighbors are free to live without fear. The federal government’s immigration agenda threatens to rip families apart, detain children, and sow chaos across our communities. The federal government has gone so far as to detain legal permanent residents and US citizens and has resorted to profiling people based on how they look and the language they speak. We cannot allow our state and local governments to be complicit.

ACLUNV’s FIREwall for Freedom exists to say: Nevada will not be complicit in cruelty. Our local governments, schools, and agencies will not turn their backs on our neighbors as the federal government attempts to kidnap them off Nevada streets.

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R - Right to Vote

The right to vote is the cornerstone of freedom. Our votes are our power, and we will not surrender them.

Across the country, federal officials are undermining trust in elections and pushing anti-democratic policies. But here in Nevada, we know that an inclusive democracy works. We’ve proven that secure and accessible voting can coexist, and we must protect that progress.

ACLUNV’s FIREwall for Freedom exists to say: Our democracy belongs to the people and we will not let fear, lies, or federal overreach steal the people’s power.

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E - Equal Protection

Equal protection under the law protects people from discrimination. It has been a longstanding American value.

With the nation’s most expansive equal rights amendment, we cannot allow our local or state government to undermine Nevada’s constitutional protections against discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin. It’s not about protecting just one group. It’s about protecting all groups in accordance with our Constitution.

ACLUNV’s FIREwall for Freedom exists to say: Discrimination has no place in Nevada and our state remains a place where everyone, without exception, can live authentically and freely. And we intend to keep it that way.

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Featured Cases

Court Case
Aug 15, 2025
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  • First Amendment|
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ACLU of Nevada v. Department of Motor Vehicles

We’re suing the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for violating Nevada’s public records laws by refusing to release records related to their communications with ICE.
Court Case
Nov 04, 2025
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  • Immigrants' Rights

Jacobo-Ramirez et al. v. Noem

We filed a class action lawsuit, in collaboration with the ACLU and the UNLV Immigration Clinic, against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), challenging a new federal policy that unlawfully denied immigrants their right to a bond hearing. For decades, people who were living in the U.S. and later detained by immigration authorities were entitled to a bond hearing under federal law. The DHS has now reversed this precedent by reclassifying these longtime residents as “applicants for admission,” thereby stripping them of their right to ask a judge for release. Now, under this new policy, anyone who entered the United States without inspection is detained while their immigration case moves forward without the opportunity for a bond hearing, also known as a custody redetermination hearing. This is a direct attack on due process. People who have lived in Nevada for years are now being held for prolonged periods of time in civil detention facilities without knowing when, or if, they’ll ever see a judge. Our class action seeks to reaffirm the right to a bond hearing for immigrants arrested inside of the United States and prevent them from being unlawfully detained without the possibility of release and in violation of their due process rights.
Court Case
Oct 13, 2025
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  • Immigrants' Rights

Morais-Hechavarria v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

We filed a lawsuit challenging the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s (LVMPD) 287(g) agreement with ICE. That agreement allows ICE to use local law enforcement to assist in carrying out its federal immigration enforcement agenda.
Court Case
Jul 09, 2025
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  • First Amendment|
  • +1 Issue

ACLU of Nevada v. LVMPD

We are suing the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to get public records about the full extent of its involvement with federal immigration enforcement.

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is challenging the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to assist the federal agency by holding individuals in custody beyond their release.
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ACLU of Nevada sues DMV to learn extent of its cooperation with ICE

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