...The use of body-worn cameras by police has its origins in a 2013 ruling in a class-action lawsuit in which a U.S. District judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, found the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policies were...
The first oral arguments in a case against St. Louis County’s system of “wanteds” took place on February 28, and the constitutional challenge by ArchCity Defenders, co-counsel Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,...
Vince Warren , CCR's Executive Director, and Nancy Cantor, Chancellor of Rutgers Law School - Newark, will discuss the importance of Rutgers’ 50 year-old Minority Student Program (MSP) to the...
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...
...Both the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking the New York Police Department to outline, among other things, how...
... The heavily redacted records were obtained by two civil rights groups, Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional Rights, through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and are being...
T wo civil rights groups want an end to the surveillance of Black activists, including those associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as for an end to the FBI’s silence on a...
Two civil rights groups on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security demanding the release of what’s been referred to in government documents as the “Race Paper.” The Center...
Newly released documents show that the FBI’s surveillance of the Black Lives Matter movement extends far beyond social media, according to The Intercept . The documents were acquired by two civil...
The Department of Homeland Security has refused to release any version of a report that the agency’s Intelligence and Analysis Office produced and referred to as the “Race Paper.” In response, the...
