Today, Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger announced that his office would not seek criminal charges against the police officers responsible for the August 1 shooting that killed Korryn Gaines and injured her young son, ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Kevin Kamenetz, Baltimore County Police Department (BCoPD) Executive, to request that several key aspects of the police department’s practices be subject to ...
Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson joined members of the Voting Rights Caucus and other experts in the field for a panel at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 46th Annual Legislative Conference entitled “The Federal Case for Voter Protection ...
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued a key voting rights ruling, after a hearing, regarding the voting procedures that the Court ordered on August 10 as interim relief and ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) recommending changes to policing in Baltimore. This letter comes ...
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the Departments of Education and Justice Guidelines on Police in Schools This week, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice (Ed Department and DOJ) released new guidelines to state and ...
LDF submitted a comment letter in response to the U.S. Census Bureau’s proposed Residence Rule, strongly urging the Census Bureau to count incarcerated people as residents of their last known, pre-arrest home address to treat ...
