After more than a decade of organizing, advocacy, and relentless action by impacted communities across Maryland, the General Assembly has passed SB 791, the Community Trust Act.

On Wednesday, April 15, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland will hold a hearing in State of Maryland v. Kristi Noem, a case challenging the United States Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) rushed plan to convert a western Maryland warehouse meant for goods into a massive internment facility and human warehouse.

Amicus brief warns of serious risks to water supply, public health, emergency services, and the fundamental dignity of those detained, with no meaningful notice or input from local residents

On Tuesday, February 24, advocates will provide testimony on a bill that would ban Marylanders from being racially profiled by law enforcement and limit federal abuses by federal agents escalated by the Trump Administration

Today, Maryland’s leaders showed courage. In the face of rising authoritarianism and a national agenda rooted in fear, our state chose values over intimidation and community over cruelty.

Emergency rally & vigil urging lawmakers to pass legislation limiting state collaboration with federal immigration enforcement, arguing that increased policing and surveillance make communities less safe.

Oral arguments before United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in challenge to cruel ICE “Bait and Switch” entrapment tactic

The ACLU of Maryland is deeply concerned by the federal government’s decision to purchase, at a cost of $102 million, a massive warehouse near Hagerstown, Maryland, to use as a detention facility. The purchase is part of reckless and unconscionable plan to more than double the capacity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to jail people suspected of immigration violations around the country.

We stand with the people of Minnesota. We stand with families who are grieving. And we stand with communities everywhere who are organizing, speaking out, and insisting that dignity, accountability, and justice are not optional.