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Brigitte Amiri, deputy director of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, breaks down what you should keep in mind in the wake of the leaked draft.

Expanding the ACLU of New Jersey team is an essential step in working toward the organization’s vision of building a just and fair New Jersey. In March 2022, the ACLU-NJ expanded its leadership team with the appointment of four newly created positions, welcoming Carla Chávez as Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, Harold Weaver as the Director of Finance, Rhea Beck as the Director of People and Culture, and Jim Sullivan as the Deputy Policy Director. The staff of the ACLU-NJ has grown significantly, with the majority of the team identifying as people of color, signaling the organization’s growing influence defending and advancing liberty and justice for all New Jerseyans.  

A day before recreational cannabis sales start, it's a momentous 4/20. But it's just one part of a pivotal moment. Between now and June, budget negotiations will determine where cannabis tax revenue for social justice goes. And we have to get it right the first time.

Early releases from prison in the pandemic in NJ — projected to exceed 8,000 from March 2020 to March 2022 — saved lives and showed the urgent human need for decarceration.

Young people with disabilities have a legal right to a free and appropriate public education, even when they are incarcerated. But for years, the educational needs of high school students in New Jersey’s state prisons were not being met. That’s changing now, and Brian Y. is a big reason why.

New Jersey begins its process to repair harms by reinvesting in communities harmed by the drug war – but people impacted most must lead the way.

Two years after its creation, the Essex County Correctional Facility Task Force has not met some of its most basic responsibilities.

The Reproductive Freedom Act at its core ensures that all people who can become pregnant not only have the right, but equitable access, to abortion care by guaranteeing it regardless of one’s insurance or immigration status.

When Texas banned nearly all abortions, it showed us that what happens on the state level can reach far beyond state lines. Just as starkly, it has shown the grim reality that when reproductive freedom comes under threat, people of color and those on the economic margins will undeniably bear the brunt of the harms caused by abortion restrictions.