The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights and the Washington State Constitution protect the right not to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance or the National Anthem, for any reason, or no reason at all. We have assembled a collection of resources for Administrators, Teachers, Parents, and Students on racial justice, free speech, and student rights.
The U.S. government apologized and provided compensation to Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb, an Iraqi refugee whom federal agents unlawfully stopped, interrogated, arrested, imprisoned, and sought to deport.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in Skagit County Superior Court on behalf of a Mount Vernon woman seeking to have Skagit Regional Health comply with Washington’s Reproductive Privacy Act.