The New Mexico legislature is just one of the ways that we advance civil liberties in our state, and we spend a significant amount of time engaging in the legislative process each year.
We aim to support bills that strengthen our rights guaranteed under the Constitution and defeat bills that threaten them. See below for the legislation we're supporting this year.
Check out our 2019 Legislative Advocacy Guide which includes information on how to volunteer to help pass our legislative priorities this session.
State and local governments use fines and fees to fund law enforcement and other government operations, but the inability to afford expensive fines and fees has no bearing on public safety and should not be treated as if it does.
Federal agencies such as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) and the U.S. Census Bureau have attempted to obtain sensitive information about immigrants from state agencies in the recent past.
Following a series of recent US Supreme Court decisions, and a 2018 decision from our own New Mexico Supreme Court, New Mexico needs a statutory fix to ensure that individuals who were under age eighteen at the time of their offense have a meaningful opportunity for release. Ohio, Arkansas, Nevad
The enforcement of marijuana laws generates some of the justice system’s starkest racial disparities. “The War on Marijuana in Black and White,” a landmark report from the ACLU, details the staggering racial bias and f
The ACLU of New Mexico fought to make this compassionate care, known as medical aid in dying, available to New Mexicans by filing the lawsuit Morris v. New Mexico in 2011.
For the last few years in a row, New Mexico has alternated between having the highest and second highest rates of police killings in the country. In 2020, we topped the list, coming in at number one. Our current laws governing use of force have failed to protect communities.