October 2014"A federal appeals court on Friday rebuffed an effort by NYPD unions to keep alive an appeal of a ruling that found police stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional and ordered reforms. .....
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...
CCR Communications Director Dorothee Benz will speak on Civil Rights and the myth of religious liberty for LGBT communities at New Jersey City University on Tuesday, February 12th. What: Lecture and...
Updated: January 25, 2013
October 2014"A ruling by a federal appeals court panel Friday has ended the lawsuit challenging the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy. The panel granted the city's request to withdraw...
March 2012Jumaane D. Williams, NYC Council Member of the 45th Council District, discusses the need for reform in the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practice.
May 2012Sikh and Muslim transit workers in New York City are celebrating the settlement of a federal lawsuit that will allow them to wear turbans on the job, in public and without affixing Metropolitan...
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on December 7. The December vigil will focus on the case of the “Fort Dix Five”, one of the most...
Updated: December 2, 2015
January 11, 2019, New York – Yesterday, in response to a Superior Court ruling in New Jersey that categorically rejected certain fines levied against the Ramapough Lenape Nation for placing a sacred...
Throughout its history, law enforcement has deemed Black activism as a national security threat. Law enforcement has used its powers to chill the speech and movements of Black activists and activism...
Updated: March 7, 2023
November 13, 2007, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which brought the historic NYPD racial profiling case Daniels v. City of New York in 1999 in the wake of the Amadou...
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