The Legal Program handles cases that involve infringements upon constitutional rights and civil liberties. We represent individuals or classes of individuals whose cases will either serve to create new precedent or will result in general system-wide reform in favor of protecting and defending civil liberties.
In other situations, we may not file a lawsuit, but may write letters calling for changes or reforms.
This emergency petition calls on the Montana Supreme Court to release non-dangerous prisoners with disabilities and others, limit the number of people taken and in custody, require lower courts to suspend minor infration detentions, and encourage prosecutors and police to exercise discretion due
Montana’s Ballot Interference Prevention Act is unconstitutional.
The ACLU of Montana, Native American Rights Fund and ACLU's lawsuit challenges a Montana law that severely restricts Native Americans’ access to the ballot.
After submitting right to know requests to federal agencies, we submitted similar public records requests to state agencies.
When he was 17 years old, Steven Keefe was sentenced to life without parole for a homicide that he committed as a juvenile.
In April of 2017, Eugene Mitchell and his wife Shayleen Meuchell were in bed with their four-year-old daughter when a party of six bounty hunters from the Montana Civil Assistance Group broke down their front door.
Luis Soto-Lopez was wrongfully jailed at the Gallatin County Detention Center pursuant to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Hold (also called a “detainer”), despite his ability to post bond for a misdemeanor.