Tuesday, May 25, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) submitted a letter to the Louisiana State House and Governmental Affairs Committee outlining recommendations for House Concurrent Resolution (“HCR”) 90, which establishes criteria for redistricting maps for the United States Congress, the Louisiana House of Representatives, the Louisiana Senate, the state Supreme Court, the Public […]
Thursday, March 25, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund sent a letter to the New York City Committee on Public Safety urging officials to reject the current draft of the New York City Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative Plan urging City officials to reject the plan in its current draft. The Draft Plan is comprised of […]
Friday, October 8, 2021 | news
On October 8 2021, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP (SC NAACP), and the ACLU of South Carolina submitted their proposed redistricting maps for the South Carolina Senate, South Carolina House, and South Carolina’s U.S. Congressional delegation. The maps were […]
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) submitted a letter to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security in connection with the July 13, 2021 hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security titled “Facial Recognition Technology: Examining Its Use by Law Enforcement.” The […]
Friday, July 30, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) submitted a letter for the record in connection with the July 13, 2021 hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security titled “Facial Recognition Technology: Examining Its Use by Law Enforcement.” The letter highlights the historic and present-day law enforcement […]
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 | news
On the heels of last week’s historic municipal elections in Ferguson, Missouri, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), which is a completely separate organization from the NAACP, has sent letters to four of Ferguson’s neighboring cities—Florissant, Hazelwood, University City, and St. Ann—highlighting the ways in which their city councils’ voting districts are […]
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 | news
On November 2, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a letter to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt expressing support for the Board of Pardons and Parole’s recommendation to grant clemency to Julius Jones, a Black man on death row who has strong claims of innocence and whose case was infected with racial […]
Monday, December 5, 2022 | news
Today, LDF sent a letter to the DeSoto Parish, Louisiana Police Jury to correct misleading information contained in a November 18, 2022 letter to the Desoto Parish Police Jury from attorneys at the John D. and Eric G. Johnson Law Firm, LLC and Holzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, PLLC. The November 18 Letter accuses […]
Thursday, March 11, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom in support of Kevin Cooper’s request for an innocence investigation. Cooper is a Black man who has served over 35 years on death row despite serious concerns about the integrity of the state’s case against him, including […]
Friday, June 26, 2020 | news
Earlier this week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a letter at a meeting of the North Charleston City Council’s Police Research Evaluation Committee in support of an independent racial bias audit of the North Charleston Police Department (NCPD). The Committee voted unanimously to begin drafting a statement of work to […]
