Alabama ACLU

Alabama lawmakers voted to include themselves in legislation that would allow judges, law enforcement and prosecutors to shield personal information from being released on public records, such as a home address, phone number or driver's license number.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday set a July date for the state's first attempt at a lethal injection following a series of troubled executions.

Members of the Alabama House advanced legislation to remove half of the state's 4% sales tax on groceries, a proposal that garnered broad bipartisan support in the face of soaring food prices.

The Alabama House and Senate gave final approval to a one-time tax rebate that will give $150 to single people and $300 to married couples. Legislators in both chambers approved a late-night conference committee compromise.

Alabama lawmakers are advancing a bill that would make it a crime to help a non-family member request, fill out or return an absentee ballot. The Senate Governmental Affairs committee on Tuesday voted 5-2 — in a vote that fell along party lines — to advance the House-passed bill to the full Alabama Senate.

A coalition of conservative-leaning states, including Alabama, is making a last-ditch effort to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule. It allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border.

Today’s Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage is being both welcomed and criticized in Alabama. The nation’s highest court declared that state bans on…

The City of Selma remembered the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” over the weekend. But today marks another milestone in the civil rights…

A coalition of civil rights organizations filed a motion asking a federal judge to order Alabama's probate judges to issue marriage licenses to same-sex…

The execution of an Alabama death row inmate has been put on hold.U.S. District Judge William Keith Watkins granted the emergency stay to Tommy Arthur.…