ACLU of Washington | Issues | Student/Youth Rights

Though youths don’t have the full rights of adults, they still enjoy fundamental constitutional guarantees. The ACLU continues to challenge limits on these rights, including the freedoms of speech, assembly and protection from unreasonable search.

Curfews

ACLU to Yakima: Reject Curfew (PDF)

Washington Supreme Court Overturns Sumner Juvenile Curfew Law

High Court Lets Ruling Against Bellingham Curfew Stand

Drug Testing »

State Supreme Court Rules Against Student Drug Testing

ACLU Urges Educators to Reject Calls for Suspicionless Drug Testing

ACLU Opposes Suspicionless Drug Testing for Lake Stevens Students (PDF)

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Due Process/Zero Tolerance

Moving Beyond Zero Tolerance

Court Rules that Children Have Right to Counsel in Truancy Hearings

Foster Runaways Wrongly Imprisoned, Says ACLU

LGBT »

School Opens Cheerleading Tryouts to All Students

ACLU Provides Legal Help to Gay-Straight Alliances

ACLU Urges Equal Treatment for Gay-Straight Alliance at Yakima High School

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Police in Schools

Nine Mile Falls School District Abandons Dog Searches

School Discipline

Suspensions Removed from Student Records

Sex Education »

Proven Programs Bill Allows State to Seek Funding for Effective Sex Education (PDF)

ACLU Applauds Signing of Healthy Youth Act

ACLU, Advocates for Youth, and SIECUS Say Government Funded Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Materials Violate Federal Law

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Freedom of Expression »

“Free J.R.” – Victory for Student Free Speech (PDF)

Keeping the Constitution Inside the Schoolhouse Gate

Student Gets Damages in Web Parody Case

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Student/Youth Rights