Today, the House Judiciary Committee marked up and advanced the First Step Act (FSA). Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined over 70 other organizations in opposing the bill. Todd A. Cox, LDF’s Policy Director, ...
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) served a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request on the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (NYDA) to gather information about ...
Related Case or Issue: Sheff v. O’Neill Parents and education advocates are concerned that progress made to desegregate public schools in Hartford, Connecticut and surrounding suburbs will be reversed, according to a motion to intervene filed ...
Today, four major civil rights groups sent a letter to U.S. Senators urging them to oppose introduction and co-sponsorship of the Protect and Serve Act of 2018, which would extend hate crime protections to law enforcement officers. ...
Read the full complaint here. Register for our press call with co-counsel and co-plaintiffs, scheduled for May 8 at 11am EST here. The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), Texas Appleseed, and Texas Low Income Housing Information Service ...
Today, Google announced that it will ban ads for the bail bond industry in their ad systems. Todd A. Cox, Policy Director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), provided the following statement: “The money ...
Today the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the ACLU Foundation, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), AARP and eight fair housing ...
