For more than 50 years, the ACLU of North Carolina has been our state's guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the North Carolina Constitution and the US Constitution. Whether it’s achieving full equality for LGBTQ people and fighting against House Bill 2, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age of widespread government surveillance, working with communities to stop racially-biased policing, expanding reproductive freedom, or defending voting rights, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach..