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Rising to the Moment: A Breakthrough 30‑Day Session for Civil Liberties

This year's legislative session saw ACLU of New Mexico staff, community partners, advocates, and legislative champions showed up ready to work, and ready to lead with courage.

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CoreCivic Pays Settlement to Estate of 23-Year-Old Asylum Seeker Who Died in Torrance County Detention Facility

The case addressed the TCDF’s systemic failures in its mental health care and CoreCivic’s extreme negligence, which resulted in Kesley Vial’s tragic and preventable death.
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A New Phase in Civil Liberties Advocacy: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

For decades, the ACLU of New Mexico has worked alongside communities to defend civil liberties and expand the promise of the constitution. Today, with fundamental freedoms under intensifying attack and the stakes for our democracy higher than ever, that work has never been more urgent.
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The 2026 Legislative Session: Creating A Firewall for Freedom in New Mexico

As we approach the 2026 legislative session, our nation is facing unprecedented threats to our fundamental freedoms. But we aren’t powerless against these attacks.
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Rethinking Public Safety Town Hall

The ACLU of New Mexico and the All Safe New Mexico Coalition came together on January 15 for a powerful “Rethinking Public Safety” Town Hall.

Kennedy Law

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Lannan Foundation

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ACLU Asks For Proof Of Voter Fraud

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By Micah McCoy

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Know Your Rights When Encountering the Police

Micah McCoy, Communications Specialist Today, I had coffee with Derek Minno Bloom, a representative from Albuquerque Copwatch, a community oversight organization that monitors police interactions with the public. In the

By Micah McCoy

ACLU-NM to Investigate Allegations of Voter Fraud by Secretary of State

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 16, 2011

By Micah McCoy

Former New Mexico SOS Diana Duran

The Anti-Muslim Epidemic Arrives in New Mexico

Micah McCoy, Communications Specialist We face an epidemic here in the United States: a widespread and wholesale vilification of Americans who are followers of Islam. We see it on the cable news networks, in vitriolic opposition to the construction of mosques in our communities, and now, this week with

By Micah McCoy

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Border Communities form Unprecedented Coalition to Assert Rights

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By Micah McCoy

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A Win for Protesters' Rights

By Micah McCoy

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The Board Room

By Micah McCoy