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NYC To Require Police and Schools to Report on School Arrests and Suspensions

The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) applauds the vote Monday of the New York City Council to require the New York City police and public school departments to issue periodic reports on the arrests, summonses and suspensions of public school students.  Under the guidelines, unanimously approved by the Council, the police department will […]

NYC Sued Over Unlawful and Discriminatory Policing in Public Housing

(New York, New York) Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Legal Aid Society (LAS), and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) filed a class action lawsuit against the City of New York and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) challenging the New York City Police Department’s reckless […]

NYC Sued Over Unlawful and Discriminatory Policing in Public Housing

(New York, New York) Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Legal Aid Society (LAS), and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) filed a class action lawsuit against the City of New York and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) challenging the New York City Police Department’s […]

NYC Specialized Schools Admission Discussed on Brooklyn Independent Television

Rachel Kleinman, Assistant Counsel of LDFs Education Group , discusses the complaint against the admissions policies at New York City Specialized High Schools in an interview on Intersect, a community forum found on Brooklyn Independent Television.

NYC School Custodians Achieve Settlement in Long-Running Employment Discrimination Lawsuit

Yesterday, a proposed settlement agreement was filed in the U.S. District Court to resolve a long-running lawsuit that challenged the New York City Board of Education’s discriminatory policies for hiring public school custodians.  The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) represents ten African-American and Latino custodians who were denied permanent jobs and, instead, […]

NY Daily News: NYPD stop-and-frisk policy in public housing leads to $150K in settlements

The NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk practice inside public housing has led to nine recent settlements, the Daily News has learned. In February, the city agreed to shell out more than $150,000 to nine of 16 plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming they were illegally stopped on Housing Authority property because they were black or Hispanic, court documents […]

NY Daily News reports on upcoming Davis case ‘Stop-and-frisk judge will lay down law on wrongful NYCHA arrests’

Amid positive media coverage in the New York Daily News on LDF’s upcoming case Davis v. City of New York, a lawsuit which challenges the NYPD’s policy and practice of unlawfully stopping and arresting public housing residents and their guests for trespassing, Mayor Bloomberg suggested that residents of public housing should be “fingerprinted” before entering their […]

NPR: Should Menthol Cigarettes Be Banned?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is debating a ban on menthol cigarettes as their slightly minty taste can cover up tobacco's harshness. That touched off a firestorm of debate within the African-American community. About 80 percent of black smokers prefer menthol cigarettes compared with 22 percent of white smokers. The civil rights group Congress […]

NPR: School Discipline Often Meted Out Unevenly

A report shows that nearly 60 percent of Texas students were suspended or expelled between 7th and 12th grade, many of them multiple times. That can lead students to stay back a grade, drop out of school or get in trouble with the law. Is it time to reassess how schools deal with bad behavior? […]