Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | case-update
In a letter to the leadership of the U.S. Senate, LDF asked for swift passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 3772) in this lameduck period. This bill would close the loopholes of the Equal Pay Act, passed in 1963, and strengthen its protections by adding remedies for wage discrimination, for example. LDF noted that African-American […]
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 | news
Last week, Leslie Proll, Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), sent a letter to the United States House of Representatives, urging its Judiciary Committee, as well as Congress as a whole, to make the passage of comprehensive criminal justice reform early in the year a legislative priority. Current federal law […]
Monday, December 7, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), All Voting is Local, Georgia, Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund (SPLC), Georgia NAACP, Black Voters Matter, and American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU-GA) sent a letter to the Cobb County Board of Commissioners and Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration expressing concern […]
Friday, March 14, 2014 | news
On March 3, 2014, LDF sent a letter to Edward FitzGerald, the County Executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Jeannet Wright, Acting County Treasurer, and the members of the Cuyahoga County council urging them to make changes to Cuyahoga County’s property tax lien sales system. Tax lien sales are used by many jurisdictions across the country as […]
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign LDF Urges California Lawmakers to Change Police Use-of-Deadly-Force Standard LDF sends letter calling for passage of AB 931, which would allow police to use lethal force only to prevent imminent bodily injury or death Following the tragic police killing of Stephon Clark in March, a bill was […]
Thursday, September 1, 2016 | news
In a letter to California Governor Jerry Brown, LDF urges the signing of Assembly Bill (AB) 2466, which will codify a recent court decision, Scott v. Bowen, concerning voter eligibility and eliminate residual ambiguity in state law regarding the impact that a felony conviction has on voting. The Bill would amend the California’s Elections Code […]
Friday, June 7, 2024 | news
In response to a recent event in which Brigham Young University-Hawaii (BYU-Hawaii) told a Black student he needed to cut his locs or else face expulsion, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent a letter to the university’s president. Colleges and universities must create welcoming, inclusive environments for all students, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or […]
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) is pleased to learn the city’s Consent Decree monitoring team is reviewing a recent incident involving an arrest of two youth in Cherry Hill. We urge the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) to also investigate this incident. Two years ago the City of Baltimore entered into a consent […]
Thursday, March 23, 2017 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter today to Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him to address the uptick in race-based hate crimes across the country and, in particular, the brutal murder of Timothy Caughman in New York by admitted white supremacist and terrorist James Harris Jackson. LDF’s President and […]
Monday, December 2, 2024 | news
Today, LDF sent a letter urging the Atlanta City Council to reject Resolution 24-R-4518 which recommends ill-conceived changes to the OIG’s functions and would impede the Inspector General’s independence and ability to investigate without interference. It is concerning that just three months after the sentencing of an official charged in the federal corruption probe,4 a […]
