What happens to a predominantly Black community when its government officials prioritize profit over health and legacy? On the 49th episode of “The Activist Files", legal worker Sadé Evans speaks...
Updated: March 7, 2023
September 22, 2016... D arius Charney , lead counsel in the aforementioned class action lawsuit against NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy and senior staff attorney at CCR, suggested the practice would not be helpful in...
Join us for a celebratory evening of dancing and socializing on Friday after Trans Day of Action and before marching with Sexual Minorities Uganda and the Center for Constitutional Rights in the...
Updated: June 26, 2015
February 28, 2020... Thankfully, the Center for Constitutional Rights successfully sued the City of New York to end the program. A federal judge determined that the policy was unconstitutional because it permitted...
June 8, 2017Attorneys and statistical experts refuted a recent court-appointed monitor’s report on the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices, saying Wednesday that it misrepresented and...
June 9, 2017It also shows blacks are more likely than whites to get frisked, but less likely than whites to have a weapon on them when it happens. "I think really at the end of the day, what we need to see in...
July 8, 2021... More importantly, the policy's definition of "reasonable suspicion" has not been sufficiently defined to prevent stops of people on baseless observations, making it impossible to implement...
February 21, 2020... When Darius Charney saw this speech, he was skeptical of Bloomberg’s remorse. Starting in 2008, he and his colleagues at the Center for Constitutional Rights had spent five years suing the city...
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:15 PM Day-long CLE symposium AGENDA 9:00 - 9:30 a.m.: Breakfast & CLE Registration 9:30 - 9:45: Opening Remarks Cristina Rodriguez, New York University School of...
Updated: February 25, 2008
April 3, 2020... “Absolutely this was targeting male New Yorkers, and of course Black and Latinx male New Yorkers,” says Nahal Zamani, the advocacy program manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), “...
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