ACLU of North Carolina is a nonprofit organization that guards liberty – working in courts, the General Assembly, and communities to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for all North Carolinians. The ACLU of NC takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach including full equality for LGBTQ people, reforming our broken and racially biased criminal legal system, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, defending the freedom of speech and religion, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion. Its mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees. The ACLU of North Carolina is composed of two organizations: the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina and the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation, an organization that coordinates and carries out legal and educational work around civil liberties issues.