Angelo Guisado is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he specializes in government misconduct, racial justice, and immigrants’ rights issues. His practice currently...
The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and of Association had some strong words for the U.S. Congress during his testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission last Tuesday. Speaking...
Case Challenges Michigan “Emergency Manager” Law March 31, 2017, Flint, MI – Today, a coalition of Michigan residents, organizations, and civil rights attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a...
This week's issue: Challenging Michigan’s racist and undemocratic Emergency Manager law; laws passed by state legislatures that attempt to suppress Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions; centering Black...
...One of the weirder turns the legal challenge to the EM law has taken was that the law deprives hundreds of thousands of Michigan citizens, specifically African Americans, of their fundamental...
April 7, 2017, New York – This morning, the New York City Police Department is publicly releasing its final body-worn camera policy, subject to the approval of the court monitor and, potentially, the...
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...Darius Charney, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said some police departments, like New York City, can have officers accused of misconduct go through a public disciplinary...
A pilot program for police officers to begin wearing body cameras this month cleared a major hurdle when it was approved last week by the federal monitor overseeing changes to the New York Police...
Please join CCR and other allies in the #CLOSERikers campaign at a rally at City Hall . The #CLOSErikers campaign launched on the steps of City Hall in April 2016. One year later, we have grown in...
