This preview of The Freedom Files - “Freedom To Know: Sex Education” shows how teenagers across America are being kept in the dark about vital information that would help them prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. In many abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, teenagers are told that birth control methods such as condoms do not work and that they will contract a deadly STD if they have sex outside marriage. Despite the fact that these programs have been proven ineffective, the federal government has spent more than a billion dollars on them since 1996.

The Freedom Files
Season Two of the series premieres this fall with a slate of nine programs on the death penalty, same-sex marriage, same-sex parenting, voting rights, immigrants’ rights, surveillance, sex education, the school-to-prison pipeline, and unlawful imprisonment, torture and habeas corpus.  Filmmaker and political activist Robert Greenwald, whose ground-breaking political films include Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, is the executive producer of the series. Richard Ray Perez, an award-winning documentary filmmaker (Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election), lead the production team for Season Two.
 

The American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union works daily in courts, legislatures and communities to protect the individual liberties, rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. Founded in 1920, the ACLU is a nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization with more than 550,000 members. It has offices in all 50 states and employs more than 150 permanent staff attorneys and 2,000 cooperating attorneys, litigating more than 6,000 cases annually.