...Both the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking the New York Police Department to outline, among other things, how...
Alec, the rightwing network that brings conservative lawmakers together with corporate lobbyists to create model legislation that is cloned across the US, has been accused of spreading racist and...
New York, NY – Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys today filed two tort claims against the Department of Defense on the second anniversary of the deaths of three Guantanamo prisoners. Today’s...
New York, NY – Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys today filed two tort claims against the Department of Defense on the second anniversary of the deaths of three Guantanamo prisoners. Today’s...
In California, prisoners will help develop a remedy to unjust detention conditions [caption align="right"] [/caption] For the first time, the men who were held in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at...
The court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms to the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy has made his final recommendations. Peter Zimroth submitted two policy changes to a judge. One prohibits stops based...
A new NYPD form will require cops to explain in greater detail why they conduct any stop — and it does away with what critics considered catch-all excuses for making stops, such as “furtive movements...
Ever since the New York Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy was ruled unconstitutional back in 2013, the city's been trying to shrink the number of stops officers make and avoid...
... The practice stopped and frisked more than 684,000 people at its peak in 2011, ostensibly in many cases to search for illegal weapons. But the non-profit Center for Constitutional Rights...
...“You’re going to see a loss of life” because of exposure to the coronavirus in ICE detention centers, Jeremy Jong, a Louisiana-based civil rights attorney, told Business Insider. Alongside...
