Amanda Wallace is the founder of Operation Stop CPS (OSCPS), a North Carolina-based grassroots campaign that builds people power to abolish the family policing (“child welfare”) system and end the forced separation of Black families. Amanda is also a co-founder of the Black Mothers March, which convenes hundreds of Black mothers, organizers, advocates, and civil rights attorneys on Mother’s Day in Washington, D.C., to end the U.S. government’s systematic attack on Black women and families. 

Over the years, North Carolina has experimented with a range of tactics to shut down Amanda’s organizing and activism – ranging from civil no-contact orders to state misdemeanor and felony charges. 

The Center for Constitutional Rights represents Amanda in an appeal of a civil no-contact order taken out by Durham County on behalf of the director of Durham’s “child welfare” agency, Maggie Clapp. The no-contact order was granted under North Carolina’s Workplace Violence Prevention Act (WVPA), a statute intended to protect victims of intimate partner violence. The order prohibits Amanda from using certain certain words like “kidnapper” and “genocide” when protesting, limits Amanda’s ability to access certain common protest sites, including a public park, and restricts her from contacting Ms. Clapp. 

Movement for Family Power (MFP), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (ACLU-NC) are appealing the no-contact order on Amanda’s behalf.