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Email us at covid19@acluva.org to report civil rights violations related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Stay safe and stay vigilant. We'll get through this together.
Feb 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
‼️SHAMEFUL: Today, a House committee killed two bills that would:

➖establish independent oversight over VA prisons
➖provide no-cost prison communications for VA families

These bills have bipartisan support from lawmakers and are both much-needed reforms. ⬇️ SB994 (VDOC oversight) has sailed through the VA Senate & a House committee with UNANIMOUS votes.

Refusing to pass SB994, lawmakers ignored consensus from everyone from law enforcement to incarcerated people's families, all of whom agree that VDOC cannot police itself.
Dec 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🚨NEW🚨

We've reached a settlement in our case about peer masking in Virginia public schools affirming that masking is a reasonable modification for students with disabilities that put them at severe risk if they contract COVID.

🧵⬇️ In February of last year, 12 parents of students with disabilities filed a lawsuit against Governor Youngkin's Executive Order 2 & Senate Bill 739.

These directives restricted schools from requiring community masking to combat COVID spread & keep kids with disabilities safe.
Oct 17, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: We just filed Prease v. Clarke challenging the Virginia Department of Corrections' (VDOC) improper interpretation of the expanded earned sentence credit program that has kept Steven Prease -- and hundreds like him -- incarcerated even after he earned early release. A collage of photos of Mr. Prease and his family that reads In 2020, Virginia’s General Assembly passed a law increasing how many credits people can earn through the program.

But since June, VDOC has improperly withheld earned sentence credits from people who are eligible to earn them, even though the law on this is clear.
Sep 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING 🚨

We just joined the 50,000+ voices that have submitted a comment to @VDOE_News opposing the proposed model policies on the treatment of transgender & non-binary students.

Here's a breakdown of what our comment says: 🧵 First, these proposed model policies are a blatant violation of Virginia state code. These policies:

❌ are not evidence-based
❌do not uphold the dignity of students in Virginia &
❌do not create a safe environment for all students to thrive

as the law requires.
Sep 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
🧵THREAD: 9 things you should know about the proposed anti-trans VDOE model policies.

First, these policies are NOT about privacy, dignity, or respect. They are rooted in transphobia & seek to further harm trans and nonbinary kids. water-colored background wi... 2️⃣ The proposed policies seek to erase trans and nonbinary youth from the classroom.

They create a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment.