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By Jane Henegar, Executive Director, ACLU of Indiana

Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project, had this reaction to restrictive sanctuary cities order,

By Jane Henegar, Executive Director, ACLU of Indiana

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana is deeply saddened by the passing of former executive director Barbara Williamson, age 74, on Oct. 8. Williamson led the ACLU of Indiana from 1973 to 1979 after having volunteered at the organization. During her tenure, the then ICLU won an injunction that allowed it to rent a booth at the Indiana State Fair after it had been denied that right for being "too controversial." Under her leadership, the ICLU also successfully took on the Indiana Textbook Commission's efforts to add an overtly creationist textbook to the biology curriculum.

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana settled a lawsuit on behalf of a Whiting woman who was arrested while she was taking pictures of a house fire.

You may have heard Governor Pence, in his State of the State address, challenging all of us to find a way in which religious liberty can co-exist alongside civil rights laws, including civil rights laws updated to protect gay and transgender Hoosiers.

First Wednesdays in Bloomington, Dec. 2, 2015: "The Not-So-Private Lives of Hoosiers: How Technology is Threatening our Privacy." Panel included (L-R) Indiana University Professors Christine Von Der Haar, Fred Cate, Scott Shackelford and Kelly Eskew (not pictured). Photo by Katelyn Rowe, The Indiana Daily Student.

On January 7, 2015, after more than a year in which the fate of a Lafayette, Ind. health center was in potential jeopardy, a federal judge put to rest the question of whether the state of Indiana can constitutionally implement a law that regulates a clinic offering non-surgical abortion more strictly than physicians' offices providing the exact same procedure.