September 8, 2023, New York – In response to the Georgia attorney general’s sweeping RICO charges targeting Stop Cop City/ Defend the Atlanta Forest activists , the Center for Constitutional Rights...
December 21, 2023...Samah Sisay, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights and spokesperson for Communities United for Police Reform, said stops are trending toward an all-time high since 2015. She said a...
The Media Associate will provide support for various aspects of the Communications Department and its department director’s work, including the weekly e-newsletter, press lists, and day-to-day...
Updated: May 28, 2026
On September 18, 2003, the City of New York agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that charged the New York Police Department with engaging in illegal racial profiling practices in stop and...
February 18, 2014, New York – In response to recent revelations by Edward Snowden of the NSA’s global effort to surveil, intimidate and target WikiLeaks, its publisher Julian Assange, and...
On October 31, 2013, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted the City's request for a stay on the stop-and-frisk remedies mandated by the Federal district...
Updated: November 8, 2013
January 2007Spitzer stops phone companies and state from ripping off N.Y. inmates' families.
December 8, 2014, New York – In response to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s call today that Governor Andrew Cuomo grant him the power to investigate in instances of...
The Center for Constitutional Rights Social Justice Institute in conjunction with The Bertha Foundation cordially invite you to the CCR Social Justice Conference 2012: Principles and Approaches to...
Updated: May 6, 2014
March 2013" NEW YORK -- The lawyers suing the New York Police Department over its stop-and-frisk policy said the federal case's March 18 court date will kick off the "trial of the century" over...
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