We litigate when doing so is the most effective way to advance a civil liberties concern. We file lawsuits that will have an impact on people’s rights by setting a legal precedent or affecting the policies and actions of public officials. We file amicus (friend-of-the-court) briefs addressing civil liberties issues in cases initiated by others. Our legal work is pro bono: we never charge for our services.
The ACLU, the ACLU of South Carolina, and the NAACP filed a lawsuit on behalf of the South Carolina NAACP challenging the South Carolina Court Administration’s categorical ban on automated data collection,...
ACLU-SC Sues to Strike Down Law Requiring Gay Men to Register as Sex Offenders for Consensual Intimate Acts
On October 2, The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the ACLU of South Carolina, and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP filed a federal lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s failure to allow absentee...
There are more than 8,000 individuals on South Carolina’s public Sex Offender Registry who do not live here. Because those individuals do not live in South Carolina, they do not have to provide updated...
