The NYPD will pay more than $1 million in legal fees and damages, and pledge to end religious-based surveillance, as part of a settlement with New Jersey Muslims who alleged that police officers...
The New York Police Department has agreed to not engage in surveillance on the basis of religion or ethnicity as part of a settlement of a lawsuit that challenged its monitoring of Muslims at mosques...
...Omar Farah, the lead attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, a civil rights organization that also worked on the case, said the settlement sends a resounding message to law enforcement...
...Lawyers who brought the Hassan case said its settlement builds upon one last year that resolved the lawsuits filed in New York City. And Omar Farah, a senior staff attorney with the Center for...
...Omar Farah, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the settlement exemplified the power of coordinated legal action and community mobilization while also serving as a...
We won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a federal court ruled the New York City Police Department’s use of the practice was unconstitutional. But as the lawyers in the case, our work isn’t done...
CCR and Muslim Advocates have entered into a settlement agreement with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) , ending litigation over the NYPD’s suspicionless surveillance of Muslim Americans in...
CCR is thrilled to be an organizational partner on Days of Remembrance and Resistance , an exhibit and series of events coordinated by the New York City Day of Remembrance Committee to shed light on...
Victims May Sue Agents Who Listed them for Refusing to Inform May 2, 2018, New York – Today, a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against 24 FBI agents alleging that they had placed or kept...
May 15, New York – Today, a court-appointed facilitator, Ariel Belen, issued a report on community-generated reforms to New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk and trespass arrest...