ACLU of South Dakota

South Dakota voters rejected an amendment to put abortion rights into the state constitution in the 2024 election. As SDPB’s Lee Strubinger reports, the success and failure of the campaigns came down to funding and organization.

The American Civil Liberties Union chapter of the Dakotas and Wyoming has named a new executive director.

The state of South Dakota is joining a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality aimed at a Tennessee law prohibiting transgender minors from accessing certain medical treatments.

The ACLU of South Dakota is calling on Republican Secretary of State Monae Johnson to reinstate residents removed from the voter roll. On Monday, the Department of Public Safety announced it successfully struck 273 individuals it calls “noncitizens” from the voter roll.

With an out-of-state petitioner angling to mandate prayer in South Dakota schools, some consider it a misuse of the state ballot measure system. That includes the state ACLU chapter.

Backers of an abortion rights ballot question are campaigning for a constitutional amendment without the support of two advocacy groups.

The multi-state coalition opposes a Biden Administration rule that would preempt South Dakota's ban on gender affirming care. The ACLU has called the opposition discriminatory.

The state of South Dakota could face a lawsuit after lawmakers failed to change its voter registration laws during the recent legislative session. Some say the state’s residency requirement for voter registration is unconstitutional.

Senate Bill 184 would have criminalized a performer singing, dancing or acting "and exhibiting a gender identity different from the performers biological sex."

The State Senate Affairs Committee has advanced a bill making it easier for tribal members to register to vote.