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News Release, Published: 
Friday, February 2, 2024
ACLU-WA Sends Letter Urging Disengagement with Joint Enforcement Task Force and Protection of Privacy
Published: 
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
While it will take some time to determine exactly how this decision will impact Washington State, we offer some preliminary guidance in this FAQ.
Published: 
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Flight Attendant Justin Wetherell celebrates Alaska Airlines entered a groundbreaking consent decree requiring the adoption of a gender-inclusive uniform policy
News Release, Published: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Gov. Jay Inslee signed a package of bills into law, passed by the Washington state Legislature, that take significant and meaningful steps toward defending and expanding access to abortion and gender-affirming health care.
News Release, Published: 
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Legislators in the Washington Senate advanced ESHB 1155, the Washington My Health, My Data Act, which removes significant barriers reproductive and gender affirming health care by protecting the privacy of people’s health data.
News Release, Published: 
Friday, February 3, 2023
Policy committees in the Washington state House of Representatives and Senate advanced the progress of number of important pieces of legislation to protect abortion and gender affirming care.
News Release, Published: 
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
The Office of the Washington State Attorney General filed a complaint before the Washington State Office of Administrative Proceedings on behalf of the state’s Human Rights Commission challenging the uniform and grooming policies of Alaska Airlines for violating the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD).

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