December 5, 2017Trump imposed a travel ban on six predominantly Muslim countries, a presidential proclamation adding two more. Targeted nations include Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, plus North Korea...
December 13, 2017, New York – In response to the court-appointed monitor in the Center for Constitutional Rights’ landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York filing his seventh status...
December 13, 2017...In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the civil rights groups behind the stop-and-frisk litigation, expressed concern over the number of undocumented stops and criticized...
December 14, 2017...In a statement released on Wednesday, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented plaintiffs in the litigation, acknowledged that the NYPD has made progress on developing new policies...
CCR and Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), joined by a number of national and New York-based organizations, sent a letter to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo regarding the appointment of Raymond...
Updated: December 19, 2017
A coalition led by the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) and other organizations joined in a letter to Chief Judge DiFiore to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers (ICE) from the...
Updated: December 21, 2017
December 21, 2017This week, the New York City Council voted on two critical policing bills. The first, Intro 541-C, was part of the Right to Know Act , a package of legislation aimed at protecting the civil and human...
Democracy Now! speaks with Judge Shira Scheindlin, former United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, about her role CCR's case Floyd v. City of New York , which found the...
Updated: December 28, 2017
December 29, 2017...This is the rebuilding of Jim Crow Nation: "We will not allow this to become the new normal," reads a statement put out by the Center for Constitutional Rights. "Whatever the courts say, the...
Join Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC)’s 2018 Advocacy Day in Albany on March 13 to demand that New York State Governor Cuomo and the state Legislature end the torture of...
Updated: January 29, 2018
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