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 ...
In a friend of the court brief, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) urged the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to uphold a key lower court decision that ...
In a letter to California Governor Jerry Brown, LDF urges the signing of Assembly Bill (AB) 2466, which will codify a recent court decision, Scott v. Bowen, concerning voter eligibility and eliminate residual ambiguity in ...
As part of the Election Protection Coalition, the largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, LDF sent an open letter to the leadership of the four political ...
The Court after Scalia: Affirmative action in a changing Court How will the confirmation of a ninth Justice affect the future of diversity in higher education? After years of going back and forth to the ...
On August 19, 2016, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) received a letter from the Baltimore County Police Department (BCoPD). In that letter, the BCoPD responded to the LDF’s August 15 correspondence ...
