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May 17, 2021

Immediate Demands from Charleston Activist Groups Regarding the Killing of Jamal Sutherland

Charleston activist groups, including the ACLU of South Carolina, Brothers and Sisters Improving Communities (BASIC), Charleston Immigrant Coalition, Black Liberation Fund,...

Charleston activist groups, including the ACLU of South Carolina, Brothers and Sisters Improving Communities (BASIC), Charleston Immigrant Coalition, Black Liberation Fund,...

Black image with white text reading "Campaign for Safe and Just Communities. It's Time to Rethink Public Safety in South Carolina." White ACLU SC logo in bottom right corner.
Black image with white text reading "Campaign for Safe and Just Communities. It's Time to Rethink Public Safety in South Carolina." White ACLU SC logo in bottom right corner.
May 12, 2021

ACLU of South Carolina Statement on Death Penalty Legislation Passed by South Carolina Legislature

Despite clear and incontrovertible evidence that South Carolina’s capital punishment system is racist, arbitrary, and error-prone, today our legislators passed a bill to keep the state’s machinery of death...
Despite clear and incontrovertible evidence that South Carolina’s capital punishment system is racist, arbitrary, and error-prone, today our legislators passed a bill to keep the state’s machinery of death...
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May 5, 2021

H.3050 will not Rein in Abusive Policing

Each day that we pretend that procedural reforms can fix policing, more Black, Brown, and other marginalized people are harmed and killed. To truly address the problem of police violence, we must drastically...
Each day that we pretend that procedural reforms can fix policing, more Black, Brown, and other marginalized people are harmed and killed. To truly address the problem of police violence, we must drastically...
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religion
May 5, 2021

Support S.295 - Ensure People are Judged on their Merits, not Mistakes

This legislation is a win-win. It makes us safer, strengthens our economy, and better ensures that South Carolinians are judged on their merit, not their mistakes.
This legislation is a win-win. It makes us safer, strengthens our economy, and better ensures that South Carolinians are judged on their merit, not their mistakes.
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religion
May 4, 2021

The Charleston People’s Budget Coalition Renews Call for Full Transparency from the Charleston Police Department and Submits a FOIA Request for their Detailed Line-Item Budget

It is clear that Charleston City Council and Mayor Tecklenburg continue to write blank checks to CPD. Charleston residents deserve accountability. That is why we have asked for the Budget Item Detail for each...
It is clear that Charleston City Council and Mayor Tecklenburg continue to write blank checks to CPD. Charleston residents deserve accountability. That is why we have asked for the Budget Item Detail for each...
CPBC
CPBC
Apr 27, 2021

South Carolina is Doubling Down on its Racist, Arbitrary, and Error-Prone Death Penalty System

South Carolina’s death penalty is racist, arbitrary, and error-prone. Today the Committee ignored these realities and moved South Carolina one step closer to resurrecting the electric chair as the state's...
South Carolina’s death penalty is racist, arbitrary, and error-prone. Today the Committee ignored these realities and moved South Carolina one step closer to resurrecting the electric chair as the state's...
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