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UPCOMING
EVENTS May 8 -
Annual Bill of Rights Celebration with Daniel Ellsberg
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June 8 to 10 -
ACLU National Membership in Washington, D.C. All ACLU members are invited and encouraged to take part! Amazing speakers and workshops.
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MEMBER PROFILES
"Norman Rockwell gets me to renew my ALCU membership every year. He manages this trick from the grave because he painted 'Freedom of Speech,' illustrating one of the Four Freedoms President Roosevelt spoke about in 1941."
PATRICK DE FREITAS
Salt Lake City
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In our public schools, young people not only learn
about their constitutional rights, but they also see firsthand how those
rights are affected by the actions of their teachers and school administrators.
The ACLU of Utah is dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights
of students and to helping students understand what their rights are in
school.
Check out StandUp from national ACLU with info for students and young people >>
Press Releases
Local Youth Activists are also National ACLU Scholarship Winners!
MAR 14, 2008 - Two of the three young women who received the ACLU of Utah's Youth Activist Scholarship Awards last November have been named as winners of the National ACLU Youth Activist Scholarship Competition, as well!
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Provo High School
sees first same-sex couple promenade at prom (4/29/05)
Copper
Hills High School revokes discriminatory dance policy (12/22/04)
ACLU
defends Utah high school students censored for wearing gay-themed anti-smoking
t-shirts (5/11/04)
State
of Utah spent quarter million in futile fight against gay student groups (11/13/01)
Students
and Salt Lake City School Board end feud over gay-supportive clubs (10/6/00)
Judge orders school to make room for student club
with gay perspective (4/27/00)
Salt Lake School District sued for nixing yet another
school club: Despite in-court pledge not to suppress gay-positive views,
district rejects club’s application (4/11/00)
Gay-positive views will not be censored, Salt Lake school officials guarantee (12/2/99)
Gay/Straight Alliance’s lawsuit to proceed against
Salt Lake School Board -- Utah federal judge says barring student group
may have violated the First Amendment (10/8/99)
ACLU of Utah executive director clarifies affiliate
position on school uniforms in a letter to the editor (10/20/98)
Utah high school “Gay/Straight Alliance” sues school
board over right to exist (3/19/98)
Litigation
East High Gay/Straight Alliance v. Board of Education
East High School PRISM Club v. Cynthia L. Seidel
Legal Advocacy and Policy Work
ACLU of Utah advises Eastmont Middle School of
inappropriate religious material in its school yearbook; and
applauds principal’s positive response (8/27/07)
ACLU of Utah advocates for Jordan High School student’s due process rights (6/27/07)
Uintah
School District agrees student dress code policies cannot rely on
outdated gender stereotypes (12/14/05) (Read
our letter to Uintah High School)
ACLU of Utah advocates on
behalf of a high school student who was turned away from her homecoming
dance because she wasn't wearing a dress, despite the fact that
she was wearing formal attire (12/8/05) (Read
Uintah School District’s response)
Letter
on behalf of Utah high school student who was told to change gay-friendly
t-shirt (10/20/05)
Letter to Provo High School regarding
the right of same-sex couples to participate in annual prom and promenade (4/15/05)
Letter
to Copper Hills High School regarding its school dances policy (12/7/04)
Letter to Hillcrest High School and the
Jordan School District regarding the school’s disciplinary actions against
a group of students who wore t-shirts proclaiming “Queers Kick
Ash” to school (5/11/04)
Letter
to Murray High School regarding its actions prohibiting a lesbian student
couple from joining other couples in the “grand promenade”
at their Junior Prom (3/11/04)
Letter to Midway
Elementary School regarding the harassment of a student with disabilities
resulting from brain tumor surgery (8/18/03)
Letter to Logan High School regarding
its student Gay/Straight Alliance (6/20/03)
From Our Legislative Reports
ACLU of Utah asks Governor Huntsman to veto student clubs bill (2007)
Lawmakers pass comprehensive school vouchers law (2007)
Anti-evolution
bill fails (2006)
Legislators rejected attempts to ban
Gay/Straight Alliances in public high schools (2006)
Resolution misstates the law
regarding students’ right to voluntarily pray and engage in
other religious expression in public school (2006)
Bill provides definitions of civic education, character education,
and values (2004)
Law now requires that the pledge of allegiance be recited weekly at the beginning
of the day in all Utah secondary schools (2003)
Tuition tax credit proposal fails again (2002)
Legislature revisits school uniforms (2002)
Bill negatively impacts gay-positive viewpoints expressed in the classroom (2001)
Bill requires that the pledge of allegiance be
recited at the beginning of each day in all elementary schools (2000)
Bill institutes some good
procedural requirements for public schools wishing to adopt school uniform policies (2000)
Annual tuition tax credit bill fails (1999)
Articles and Resources
Why the ACLU of Utah Opposes H.B. 148, “Education Vouchers” (August 2007)
LDS Seminary in Public Schools (August 2007)
Students’ Right to Form Gay/Straight Alliances (April 2007)
Divine Design (Fall 2005)
Frequently Asked Questions on Student Privacy, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and the No Child Left Behind Act (Fall 2005)
The Teaching of Creationism, Intelligent
Design, and Divine Design in Public Schools (June 2005)
The Right of Same-Sex Student Couples to Participate
in their High School Dances, Proms, and Promenades (April
2005)
Mandatory School Uniforms (August 2002)
GLSEN Utah Newsletter: Balancing the rights
of students, teachers and parents (July 1999)
Missionary week in public high schools
(June 1999)
New Granite School District Policy
Renews Controversy Over Gay-Related Student Groups (Fall 1997)
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