New Yorkers should visit nypdbodycameras.org now and take advantage of this rare opportunity to give input on not only how we are policed, but on how we will literally be watched. Body-worn cameras...
...In the wake of the first travel ban, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Cardozo Law School filed a complaint to the inspector general of D.H.S., detailing the “havoc,” “fear,” and “confusion...
In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, hundreds of mostly Muslim immigrants were rounded up and held in harsh conditions in New York. They later sued, but on Monday, the U.S. Supreme...
In 2002, Alabama passed the Farm Animal, Crop, and Research Facilities Protection Act, which criminalized the release of any unauthorized material obtained from farms in the state. A parade of more...
Janine Jackson: January 11 marked 16 years since the opening of the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, specifically designed to be beyond the reach of US law and away from public view, holding...
...With my legal team at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, I’m once again challenging my placement in a men’s prison, along with the GDC’s failure to keep me...
November 22, 2013 - Today, an appellate panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied the City of New York’s request to vacate District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s...
Leading academicians, activists, political figures, and lawyers will discuss a critical, oft-neglected, public policy issue: how police, prosecutorial, and prison-related practices lead to the...
Among the senseless beatings inflicted on reality during the presidential debate on Monday night was the discussion of New York City’s stop-and-frisk tactics. Donald J. Trump attributed a nonexistent...
...Bloomberg said that “in 2012, in my third term, we began putting more safeguards in place. And we began scaling back the numbers of stops.” The numbers corroborate that, but Darius Charney , a...
