August 2, 2016, New York – In response to the resignation of Commissioner Bratton, Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Darius Charney made the following statement: We hope and fully expect the...
July 29, 2016 – New York – Today, three American Muslim men with no criminal records who were placed or kept on the No Fly List by the FBI in retaliation for their refusal to become informants...
Civil rights groups mark 50th Anniversary of Freedom of Information Act by filing requests to expose government surveillance of activists of color July 5, 2016, New York – Color Of Change (COC) and...
Survey and Public Comments Will Help Inform Policy That Will Govern 1000-Camera Pilot Ordered in Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit June 29, 2016, New York – The Policing Project at New York University launched...
May 11, 2016, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights is sad to release the following statement on the occasion of the passing of the Center’s president emeritus Michael Ratner: From Attica...
April 19, 2016, New York – Penny Pritzker, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has entered into a landmark class action settlement with African American and Latino plaintiffs whose...
March 14, 2016, Flint, MI – Civil rights attorneys from the Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, National Lawyers Guild, Sanders Law Firm, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional...
February 16, 2016, New York – Today, the court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms to the New York City Police Department’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices filed his second interim report...
January 7, 2016, New York – Today, Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in response to the settlement of Raza v. City of New York , a lawsuit filed...
November 23, 2015 – On the anniversary of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killing by police in Cleveland, a coalition of law students, legal workers and attorneys known as Law for Black Lives issued the...