Center for Constitutional Rights Supports Critical NYPD Transparency Legislation How Many Stops Act December 20, 2023, New York – As the New York City Council prepares to vote on the police...
December 21, 2023...Samah Sisay, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights and spokesperson for Communities United for Police Reform, said stops are trending toward an all-time high since 2015. She said a...
December 21, 2023...The policy blunted the technology’s potential for accountability in other ways. Officers could decide when to start filming, instead of at the beginning of all interactions as the public wanted...
December 21, 2023...The How Many Stops Act attracted the support of police reform and advocacy organizations like Communities United for Police Reform and the Center for Constitutional Rights, while the solitary...
December 21, 2023..."The repression itself is not unprecedented, but the level and scale feel like nothing we have had to face before. Those particularly working in the legal response to this crackdown have noted...
Join the Death by Incarceration is Torture coalition, of which Center for Constitutional Rights is part, for a virtual townhall on Thursday, January 18, at 7 p.m. EST to learn how people impacted by...
Updated: January 16, 2024
January 19, 2024, New York – In response to Mayor Adams’ veto of the police transparency legislation the How Many Stops Act (HMSA), the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement...
Coauthored with the NRDC, ACLU of Mississippi, Forward Justice, Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign, and People’s Advocacy Institute, this fact sheet highlights the work of Jackson community groups as...
Updated: January 19, 2024
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...
How to Sue the Klan is the story of how five Black women from Chattanooga used legal ingenuity to take on the Ku Klux Klan in a historic 1982 civil case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Updated: February 16, 2024
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