The ACLU of Wyoming's Communications Director would love to speak with you. Janna Farley handles queries from reporters on local, state, and national civil liberties issues. ACLU of Wyoming team members can provide information and assist journalists by lending important perspectives on issues such as LGBTQ advocacy, abortion rights, criminal justice reform, and more.
Today, with a 37-23 vote, the Wyoming House of Representatives narrowly missed meeting the 2/3 super majority of votes required to consider House Bill 166, legislation that would repeal the death penalty, during the legislature’s budget session.
The ACLU of Wyoming believes that the state’s death penalty laws violate both the United States and Wyoming Constitutions and is asking the state’s legislators to repeal the capital punishment in the state during the legislature’s budget session.
The death penalty’s history of deep injustices, skyrocketing costs and entrenched discrimination defies party lines in the Equality State.
Craven will lead and expand the organization's legal program across and provide strategic leadership on both litigation and non-litigation legal advocacy in the ACLU’s priority areas.
As Uinta County Commissioners move forward with their plan to contract with a private company to construct and operate an immigration detention facility in the county, the ACLU of Wyoming is asking the state’s five elected officials to weigh in on the legality of the plan.
The ACLU of Wyoming is hosting two educational forums to explain the death penalty is actually being used in the state.