September 4, 2014, New York - In response to today’s announcement by the NYPD that it will launch the body camera pilot program ordered by Judge Shira Scheindlin in the landmark case Floyd v...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and Cornell University Law School for "Maintaining and Protecting Racial Justice in 2010", in a discussion featuring CCR Attorney Darius Charney...
Updated: April 16, 2010
October 5, 2017, New York – In response to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ memo on Department of Justice employment protections for transgender people, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
Linda Burnham has been an activist, writer, and strategist, focused on women’s rights and racial justice, since the 1960s. She is co-editor and contributor to the 2022 book Power Concedes Nothing:...
May 25, 2020Trump's public charge rules will only exacerbate the coronavirus health crisis Last week, we joined New York State Attorney General Letitia James arguing (via videostream) before a federal district...
February 26, 2018The landmark, class action settlement in CCR’s case challenging long-term solitary confinement, Ashker v. Governor of California , brought widespread reform to the practice of solitary in California...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Promise of Justice Initiative on Saturday, February 8 , from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. CST , at Antenna in New Orleans, for the launch of the exhibit ABOUT...
Updated: February 7, 2025
Ian Head is the Open Records Project Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on policing, racial justice, immigrants' rights, and prisoners’ rights issues. Ian has significant...
Remy Burton is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He works on discriminatory policing, racial justice, and challenging mass incarceration. Prior to coming to the Center...
May 12, 2014, New York – In response to revelations in a Sunday New York Times article, “New York Police Recruit Muslims to Be Informers,” Muslim Advocates and the Center for...
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