CCR has been fighting for racial justice since our first day. We organized legal support for and defended marchers who were arrested on the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965; litigated...
Updated: September 26, 2017
August 5, 2022... Traditionally, the CCRB defers allegations of profiling and bias-based policing to the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau. But with over 3,400 complaints filed between 2014 to 2021, only four were...
Since the 1970s, combating sexual and gender-based violence has been an integral part of CCR’s mission. We fought for recognition of the right to self-defense for victims of domestic violence,...
Updated: March 8, 2017
November 2014"New York City can now move forward and implement its reform measures to overhaul the NYPD’s controversial practice of stop-and-frisk after a federal appeals court rejected police unions...
August 17, 2012, New York – In response today’s ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which excluded as untested and...
CCR has tenaciously challenged discriminatory policing for decades, recognizing that discrimination and police violence do not arise as isolated incidents but are deeply embedded within our criminal...
Updated: September 26, 2017
Kayla Vinson (she/her) is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is a member of the Southern Regional Office, and her work focuses on supporting liberatory movements and...
Since our founding in 1966, the Center has pioneered legal strategies to ensure that courtroom doors remain open to those with the least access to justice. In few instances is this more difficult...
Updated: September 26, 2017
From the stunning revelations of the FBI's COINTELPRO program just a few years after CCR was founded to the broad-ranging surveillance of the post-9/11 era, CCR has consistently sought to expose and...
Updated: September 26, 2017
CCR fights tirelessly to obtain justice for those who have fallen victim to domestic government abuses perpetuated in the name of the so-called “war on terror.” Our challenges to discriminatory...
Updated: September 26, 2017
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