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As COVID-19 Rages, House Health Committee Focuses on Forcing West Virginians to Give Birth
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 13, 2022
Coalition's Smart Justice Advocacy Day Highlights Need for Reforms
The West Virginia Criminal Law Reform Coalition hosted an advocacy day at the Capitol to bring awareness to the issues constituents hope to see addressed during the 2022 legislative session.
Watch video of the press conference here.
Court Rejects Effort to Deny Our Client Her Day in Court
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A federal court in West Virginia this week rejected the efforts of several defendants to deny Becky Pepper-Jackson her day in court to challenge a discriminatory West Virginia law, H.B.
Talks Fall Through Between Bullied W.Va. Transgender Teen and Harrison County Schools
After months of discussion, The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia (ACLU-WV) and Fairness West Virginia (Fairness WV) announced today that talks have stalled with Harrison County Schools regarding a November 2018 incident involving the verbal abuse of a transgender high school student.
West Virginia Transgender Student Bullied, Harassed By Principal In School Bathroom
The American Civil Liberties of West Virginia (ACLU-WV) sent a letter today to Dr. Mark A. Manchin, superintendent for Harrison County schools, regarding an abusive encounter in the boys bathroom directed at a transgender student by an assistant principal at Liberty High School in Clarksburg, W.Va.