ACLU of Missouri

12/23/2025

12/09/2025

The ACLU of Missouri is accepting applications for Summer 2026 law clerks. Our work covers several issues including free speech and association rights, religious freedom, voting rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ equality, immigrants’ rights, racial equity, education equity, and privacy rights.

Learn more at https://www.aclu-mo.org/en/who-we-are/internships

12/04/2025

“With bills filed already threatening prosecution against patients and providers, it is crucial that Missourians know they are being asked to end the protections for reproductive health care that we just passed in the last general election,” said Tori Schafer, Director of Policy and Campaigns at the ACLU of Missouri. “This amendment 3 not only imposes strict bans on health care for Missourians but allows anti-abortion politicians to impose similar restrictions on abortion that prevented access to care in the past.”

The court recognized the potential impacts of Amendment 3, passed as HJR 73, stating, “HJR 73 eliminates the fundamental right as established by [the Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative], and, in its place, places more limitations on the circumstances under which an abortion may be performed and allows the General Assembly to enact laws broadly regulating abortions, abortion facilities, and abortion providers.”

The court rewrote both the summary statement that voters will see on the ballot and the fair ballot language which informs voters of what a yes and no vote will mean.

12/04/2025

Just in: Court finds both the legislature's and the Secretary of State's summary statement and fair ballot language insufficient; orders new language. More to come.

12/02/2025

For more than 105 years and through 19 different presidential administrations, our mission has remained unchanged: defend, protect, and expand civil rights and liberties for all people nationwide.

This Giving Tuesday, amidst unprecedented attacks on our rights and our lives, help fuel our fight for the shared future we deserve by making a gift to the ACLU at: https://action.aclu.org/give/giving-tuesday-2025 🗽

11/25/2025

Along side The MacArthur Justice Center and ArchCity Defenders, Inc., we filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Mental Health for failing its legal duties to people living with serious mental illness and disabilities during pretrial detainment after having been deemed incompetent to proceed to trial.

Missouri law requires competency evaluations to be conducted within 60 days of a court order. According to obtained documents, it often takes approximately six months for someone to be evaluated.

"The state has a statutory and constitutional obligation to assess and treat all individuals that courts have deemed incompetent to stand trial in a timely manner," said Gillian Wilcox, Director of Litigation at the ACLU of Missouri. "The current status quo leaves some people who experience mental illness or disabilities trapped in judicial limbo and languishing in jail while the state fails to provide the necessary care to allow the detained person to advance through the judicial system."

11/22/2025

The Governor-installed Attorney General's desperation is showing; she is terrified that Missourians will reject Washington DC's attempt to gerrymander our state.

11/22/2025

The Governor-installed Attorney General’s desperation is showing; she is terrified that Missourians will reject Washington DC’s attempt to gerrymander our state.