Friday, March 8, 2024 | news
(NEW YORK, NY) – The federal monitor overseeing the consolidated monitoring process to reform the NYPD in Floyd v. City of New York, Davis v. City of New York, and Ligon v. City of New York published a community engagement plan intended to bring into the monitorship the voices of communities most impacted by the […]
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC released a comprehensive guide to redistricting, aimed at empowering Black, Latino, and Asian American communities, as well as other marginalized communities, to be actively engaged participants in one of the […]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | case-update
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the Asian American Justice Center, and MALDEF release “The Impact of Redistricting In Your Community: A Guide to Redistricting” LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, three leading civil rights groups launched a campaign to promote their collaborative redistricting guide for the upcoming local, state and congressional redistricting processes. […]
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | news
(NEW YORK, NY) – Yesterday, a federal district court publicly filed a 503-page report by a retired judge, who has been working with the court-appointed Independent Monitor overseeing the reform of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement policies and practices. The federal court is accepting public comments on the report, which examines the NYPD’s discipline process for […]
Monday, June 5, 2023 | news
Today, the Independent Monitor of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) released a report detailing a preliminary audit of the NYPD’s Neighborhood Safety Teams (NST). NST units deploy hundreds of officers across NYC’s boroughs to patrol neighborhoods and make arrests in unmarked vehicles. The controversial unit relaunched in March 2022 as a rebranded version […]
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. The leaders of eight legacy Civil Rights organizations released the following joint statement in response to the current administration’s immigration raids and the responsive protests in the Los Angeles area: “We stand in full and urgent solidarity with California Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and […]
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | news
(New York, NY – March 27) Sixteen civil rights organizations sent a letter to every school superintendent in Texas clarifying misconceptions about hair discrimination in the wake of a state court ruling about the Texas Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act (“Texas CROWN Act”). The Texas CROWN Act strengthened pre-existing constitutional […]
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | news
Voters and Community Groups Intervening in Suit to Ensure that All New Yorkers Are Equally Represented in State and Local Legislatures Albany, NY – Today, top civil rights organizations filed a motion in New York Supreme Court asking to intervene to help defend New York’s new law allocating people in prison to their home communities […]
Thursday, September 12, 2024 | news
Media: Legal Defense Fund (LDF): media@naacpldf.org ACLU-MS: comms@aclu-ms.org Harvard Election Law Clinic: elc@law.harvard.edu Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi (ACLU-MS) and Harvard Election Law Clinic filed a lawsuit on behalf of two individual voters as well as the DeSoto County NAACP and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. challenging a […]
Thursday, January 4, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Civil Rights Organizations File FOIA Requests with Justice Department for Materials Related to Policing Reform Efforts Three civil rights organizations today filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the U.S. Department of Justice for records relating to the enforcement of laws that protect individuals and communities from unconstitutional […]
