News & Commentary

The movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline or, on social media #NoDAPL, has been a Native-led, organized effort. Indigenous activists, lawyers, and media have taken to social media so make people aware of the civil rights violations happening under the watchful eye of the North Dakota Governor and the Morton County Police Department.Although #NoDAPL is miles away in another state, Montanans feel very passionate in showing solidarity with them. Here are a few events that ACLU of Montana has been involved in:In October, in partnership with The Montana Racial Equity Project based in Bozeman, we organized “Montana Stands with Standing Rock,” an event at the Headwaters of the Missouri River. Indigenous leaders prayed and blessed the headwaters and Indigenous activists and community le

The ACLU of Montana opposes CI-116 (“Marsy’s Law”) as unconstitutional and a massive impediment to the workings of the already overburdened criminal justice system in Montana.

Statement from Caitlin Borgmann, Executive Director of the ACLU of Montana:

On Sept. 13, the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana hosted a free, advance screening of Oliver Stone’s new film, “Snowden,” at the Myrna Loy Center in Helena. 

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Health Department on recently began providing an emergency over-the-counter contraception drug to any female, any age, without a prescription.

The ACLU of Montana is delighted to announce that it has hired SK Rossi as Director of Advocacy and Public Policy. Rossi, who started work on July 22, 2016, will be responsible for advancing the ACLU of Montana’s civil liberties policy agenda before the state legislature, the executive branch, local government bodies, and administrative agencies, and will lead and collaborate on advocacy initiatives across the state, including the ACLU of Montana’s new Racial Justice Project.