Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) proudly endorses New York State Senate Bill S182, championed by Senator Robert Jackson, and Assembly bill A710, championed by Assemblymember Pamela Hunter. These bills would end qualified immunity in the State of New York, and important work has been done by impacted families and advocates to advance their passage. Qualified […]
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 | news
Today, at the invitation of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the Policing Project at New York University School of Law has launched a website, www.nypdbodycameras.org, which contains a brief questionnaire to gather public feedback on the NYPD’s proposed body-worn camera policy. Individuals and organizations may provide additional feedback through a comment portal. Community […]
Thursday, January 10, 2019 | news
As part of the New York Voting Rights Consortium, a group of leading local and national voting-rights advocates, LDF wrote to leaders of the NY State Legislature today to strongly encourage the adoption of five voting-rights measures as legislative priorities for the 2019 session. Taking this action is necessary to prevent New York’s current system […]
Friday, September 10, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has submitted a response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) proposal for “Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence.” In its letter to NIST, LDF highlights that the proposal should: include greater context on the historic and contemporary relationship between racial inequality and technological innovation; be […]
Friday, March 29, 2024 | news
Yesterday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its Memorandum on “Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence,” which sets requirements and offers guidance for federal agencies’ development, procurement, and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In response, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Manager of the Justice in Public Safety […]
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | news
Yesterday, President Biden issued an executive order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). The order builds on the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights that the Biden administration issued last year, and mandates steps that the federal government must take to regulate AI and address risks of algorithmic bias. In response to […]
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 | news
This week, the U.S. House of Representative’s bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) released a report outlining policy proposals and recommendations for the regulation of AI. The report acknowledges that AI can lead to inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise flawed outputs and exacerbate existing biases in systems even when it is accurate, leading to discrimination […]
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 | news
This week, Sherrilyn Ifill and NAACP LDF’s Education Group recorded a high volume of media hits around the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Schuette vs. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. SCOTUS broke with longstanding precedent by refusing to ensure that the political process in Michigan is not used by the majority to suppress the minority’s right to equal participation. The […]
Saturday, January 25, 2020 | news
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Senior Counsel Raymond Audain sits with Fordham University law professor Gemma Solimene to discuss the termination of Haiti TPS and what it will mean for 58,000 residents.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | news
Christina Swarns, Director of LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry show to discuss the problems with Stand Your Ground laws.
