...LDF and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) served the NYPD with two Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests seeking records on its gang policing tactics, but the NYPD refused to...
...The Legal Aid Society, which along with a number of community organizations had demanded the NYPD release details of how the database is maintained and purged, has filed an administrative appeal...
Roger Goodell Commissioner National Football League 345 Park Avenue New York, NY 10154 June 18, 2018 Dear Mr. Goodell: The undersigned organizations, each of which is devoted to protecting the full...
...Individuals presumed to be gang members face “heightened police surveillance, increased probability of police encounters and, for some, the threat of deportation,” according to a letter sent in...
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 Buffalo Police Department discriminated against people of color through traffic enforcement practices, including checkpoints that targeted neighborhoods where the majority of residents are black...
Join CCR at Netroots Nation 2018 for this important discussion, which will take place in Room 210 . In 2017, under court order, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI turned over hundreds of...
resident Donald Trump’s Supreme Court selection sweepstakes ended, as promoted, Monday night with the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District...
...Darius Charney, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said that his organization knew shortly after hearing the details of the police department’s checkpoint program...
..."If you look at the data over these many years, it clearly shows the police department is not accurate in saying that the do it everywhere. The overwhelming majority is being done in...
