The ACLU of Utah, chartered in 1958, operates through public education, legal advocacy, litigation, and lobbying at both the state and local levels to ensure the constitutional rights and freedoms of everyone living in or visiting Utah. It is a subsidiary of the ACLU, the nation's largest non-partisan guardian of freedom. Its work is based on the principles outlined in the Bill of Rights, protecting, upholding, and improving those principles at all costs. Some of the issues the ACLU of Utah prioritizes include participatory democracy, racial justice, immigrants' rights, religious liberty & freedom of belief, and privacy & technology. The ACLU of Utah works with these issues through public education and advocacy, legal work like court cases and legal advocacy, and lobbying to have effective and intuitive legislation passed on the state and national level. It also hosts an online blog where information about safe and legal protesting, protecting your rights in your community, summaries of critical court cases, and more is made easily accessible to the public.