The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Color of Change (COC), and the Kramer Law Clinic are currently litigating under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to uncover how the FBI and Department...
Updated: April 19, 2019
September 2014Iraq veterans joined by human rights lawyers filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Thursday with the U.S. Department of Defense and the State Department over its use of depleted uranium...
August 17, 2017CCR has a long history of challenging overbroad and warrantless government surveillance, something that has ballooned since 9/11. Last week, we filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant...
So-Called “Traffic Safety” Checkpoints and Tickets Target People of Color to Raise Revenue for City, Lawsuit Alleges June 28, 2018, Buffalo, NY – Today, civil rights groups filed a class action...
The Capital Campaign Associate will support the Director of Development, Executive Director, Board Chair, and consultants to track and help implement all aspects of the capital campaign: track all...
Updated: December 2, 2019
October 26, 2010, New York, NY – The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional stops that disproportionately affects Black and Latino New Yorkers,...
Join CCR on April 25, 2018, as Al Jazeera Fault Lines launches its short film, Between War and the Ban , which examines how the war in Yemen and Trump's Muslim ban are leaving Yemeni-Americans and...
Updated: April 13, 2018
Anthony Miranda is the executive chairman of the National Latino Officers Association and a retired member of the NYPD. This op-ed was originally published in The Chief Leader on Tuesday, December 17...
Updated: December 17, 2013
October 1, 2012, New York – Today, while a federal judge heard comments on the fairness of his most recent rulings in the landmark case on racial disparities in the New York City Fire...
January 23, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
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