April 24, 2020...“I lost my highest paying job,” she said. “I lost my car, both that I needed to take care of my children.” The lawsuit also alleges the fines and fees collected from the traffic tickets act as...
June 5, 2020... "The NYPD's approach to social-distancing enforcement is stop and frisk 2.0," said Darius Charney, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, in a statement. "But since the...
June 14, 2015The American Association of University Professors voted overwhelmingly at its annual conference here on Saturday to censure the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for withdrawing a tenured-...
September 30, 2016The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) won its legal challenge to the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy more than three years ago. But suddenly the phones in our offices are...
June 17, 2016In May, the nation’s two largest private prison contractors announced dramatic increases in their first-quarter earnings for the year. The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) reported a 17 percent increase over...
June 27, 2016Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is striking deals with private prison companies to lock up a “guaranteed minimum” of mothers with their children in euphemistically-termed family detention...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney, Diala Shamas , as she discusses the state of free speech on college campuses, and explores the Goldwater Institute’s Campus Free Speech Act,...
Updated: February 11, 2019
June 1, 2022...The landmark decision in the 2008 class-action lawsuit — a huge blow to ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s crime-fighting legacy — included hiring Zimroth, a private lawyer and former Manhattan...
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...
June 7, 2023...Samah Sisay, a Center for Constitutional Rights lawyer who represented plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to Scheindlin’s ruling, said the Neighborhood Safety Teams should also be eliminated. “...
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