CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney discusses efforts to curb ongoing stop and frisk abuses by the NYPD and the importance of input to that process from the communities most affected by those...
Updated: November 7, 2016
April 14, 2022More police is precisely the wrong response
This article originally appeared on Huffington Post on December 10, 2010 Here's the most striking WikiLeaks revelation: the same Obama administration that is currently devoting endless resources to...
Updated: December 13, 2010
April 15, 2014 – Today in response to the New York Police Department’s announcement that it is disbanding its Demographics Unit, Muslim Advocates and Center for Constitutional Rights...
For decades, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has supported the right to dissent – to engage in civil disobedience, to object to unlawful surveillance of activists, and to protest...
Updated: March 12, 2010
January 21, 2024... “Stops are increasing, the number of police killings are increasing, the racial disparity in who is being stopped is increasing,” said Samah Sisay, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional...
June 14, 2024...“Unfortunately, there has been very little scrutiny into 501(c)(3) organizations that openly support illegal activities in the West Bank and Gaza,” said Diala Shamas, a senior staff attorney at...
September 17, 2024, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights welcomes Masha Katz Baer as its new Director of Development. Katz Baer – who was hired as Deputy Director in May 2023 and...
Basil Soper is the Media Associate at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He is a multidisciplinary writer, communications strategist, and documentary storyteller whose work centers on social...
CCR joined a coalition letter addressed to President Obama on December 20, 2016. The letter, coordinated by Grassroots Leadership, outlines key steps to dismantle some of the detention and...
Updated: December 21, 2016
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