Organizations that successfully challenged stop and frisk request reforms based on three years of community input June 8, 2018 , New York — Today, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions...
May 31, 2018, New York – In conjunction with a court hearing in San Francisco in a lawsuit filed against Greenpeace by Resolute Forest Products, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the...
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...
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...
New Jersey Muslims Reach Landmark Settlement Requiring NYPD to End Unlawful Spying Activities New York, NY – Today, a group of Muslim owned businesses, mosques, individuals, and student groups have...
Groups Point to New Documents Showing TigerSwan Employee Failed to Disclose Affiliation When Seeking License Thursday, March 29, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, a broad base of Louisiana advocacy...
Document Raises Questions About Escalating Government Surveillance and Criminalization of Black Activists March 19, 2018, New York, NY – Today, racial justice organizations filed a lawsuit against...
March 1, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA – Newly released documents reveal that Louisiana state intelligence officers surveilled community groups opposed to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline and that regulators used...
Dakota Access Lawyers Abused Legal System to Stifle Advocacy, Sanctions Motion Argues February 6, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Earth First! Journal urged a...
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...