...Individuals presumed to be gang members face “heightened police surveillance, increased probability of police encounters and, for some, the threat of deportation,” according to a letter sent in...
So-Called “Traffic Safety” Checkpoints and Tickets Target People of Color to Raise Revenue for City, Lawsuit Alleges June 28, 2018, Buffalo, NY – Today, civil rights groups filed a class action...
The Buffalo Police Department discriminated against people of color through traffic enforcement practices, including checkpoints that targeted neighborhoods where the majority of residents are black...
Join CCR at Netroots Nation 2018 for this important discussion, which will take place in Room 210 . In 2017, under court order, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI turned over hundreds of...
resident Donald Trump’s Supreme Court selection sweepstakes ended, as promoted, Monday night with the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District...
...Darius Charney, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said that his organization knew shortly after hearing the details of the police department’s checkpoint program...
..."If you look at the data over these many years, it clearly shows the police department is not accurate in saying that the do it everywhere. The overwhelming majority is being done in...
...Twenty-six prisoners at Guantánamo remain detained without charge or trial, including the eight men represented in court Wednesday, who have been at Guantánamo between 10 and 16 years. Two of them...
July 17, 2018, New York – Last night, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and...
Order Calls for Pilot Program to Study Effectiveness of Documenting All Encounters July 19, 2018, New York — Today, a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin recording all police-citizen...
