On Thursday, March 12, 2015, CCR, along with Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, the ACLU of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild sent a letter to the...
Updated: March 16, 2015
June 5, 2020... "The NYPD's approach to social-distancing enforcement is stop and frisk 2.0," said Darius Charney, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, in a statement. "But since the...
March 23, 2018...Racial justice groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security to get access to something called the “Race Paper” that may provide clues to the surveillance of black activists. Why do we have...
The Center for Constitutional Rights Southern Regional Office is a key part of an exciting new initiative drawing on the organization’s historical roots in the South, and reflecting the urgent need...
Updated: May 4, 2021
July 5, 2016Originally publised on Medium.com . Whether you ride public transportation every day to and from work or drive your own car. Whether you go to a public school with security guards or an upscale...
Order Calls for Pilot Program to Study Effectiveness of Documenting All Encounters July 19, 2018, New York — Today, a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin recording all police-citizen...
CCR has long had a deep commitment to protecting members of LGBTQI communities from discrimination, censorship, violence, and persecution. Throughout the 1990s, the Center fought for the rights of...
Updated: June 20, 2019
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal statute that enables anyone in the United States to request records from federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the...
Updated: December 11, 2024
Join the Center for Mentoring and Professional Networks at Drew University for a conversation with Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren , on Monday, October 16, 7 p.m. - 8...
Updated: October 9, 2023
CCR has a long history of challenging U.S. war-making and conflict-related human rights violations, both before and since the creation of the war-on-terror narrative. In the 1970s, we pioneered the...
Updated: August 7, 2018
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