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Western Regional Office
Since opening in 1987, LDF's Western Regional Office has used innovative legal
and public policy strategies to pursue LDF's fundamental mission: transforming
the promise of equality into a social, economic and political reality for all
people. In addition to its central focus of challenging racial discrimination
through litigation and legal advocacy, the Western Regional Office has successfully
increased public awareness of matters of race and equity through its community
outreach efforts. At the same time, the office has exhibited its commitment to
staying on the cutting edge of the movement for racial justice by serving as
a vital force in coalition building. LDF's Western Regional Office has and continues
to work in the areas of education, employment, housing, health care, voting rights,
environmental and criminal justice and police misconduct.
Through litigation efforts like its lawsuits against the Board of Regents
of the University of California and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, the Western Regional Office is battling discrimination at the very
heart of equal opportunity. The suit against the California Regents challenges
discriminatory policies and practices of the University of California at Berkeley
(California's flagship public university) that deny African American, Latino
and Filipino American students an equal opportunity to compete for admission.
In its case against the Los Angeles MTA, the Western Regional Office continues
to monitor and enforce the consent decree it secured to improve and expand
bus service for transit-dependent Los Angelenos - most of whom are people of
color, working poor and elderly.
In addition to an active litigation docket, LDF's Western Regional Office,
as part of community coalitions, is tackling issues of misconduct, discrimination
and corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department. Continuing the LDF tradition in the area of voting rights
and political participation, the Los Angeles office is also integrally involved
in public education and outreach efforts to ensure fair redistricting throughout
the state of California.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
1055 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1480
Los Angeles, CA 90017
(213) 975-0211
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