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
January 30, 2018, New York – In response to the announcement by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner James O’Neill that the New York City Police Department will be speeding up the expansion of its...
January 30, 2018...Opponents of the new timetable were quick to criticize it. "The NYPD decision today seems extremely premature," said Darius Charney, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional...
February 5, 2018, New York –Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a letter to the New York City Council Committee on...
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