CONTACT Legal Defense Fund: Ella Wiley, media@naacpldf.org, 925-819-0555 Brennan Center: Kendall Karson, karsonk@brennan.law.nyu.edu, 646-925-8746 ACLU of Florida: media@aclufl.org, 786-363-2737 ACLU National: Inga Sarda-Sorensen, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org, 347-514-3984 TAMPA, Fla. – Police body camera footage obtained earlier this ...
Today, LDF sent a letter urging Beaufort County, South Carolina officials additional early voting centers for the November 2022 election in Beaufort County, and to do so in locations that are more accessible for Black ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund and partner civil rights organizations sent a letter to Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson regarding polling site changes and voter notification. This is the second letter sent to Secretary ...
Today, LDF and a coalition of civil rights, public interest, voting rights, and other organizations, sent a letter urging social media companies to take immediate steps to curb the spread of voting disinformation in the ...
In a 2021 private conversation about the Los Angeles City Council redistricting process that was recently disclosed to the public by the Los Angeles Times, now-former Los Angeles City Council president Nury Martinez and fellow ...
Today, President Biden announced major steps in reforming the nation’s long-standing criminalization of people – disproportionately Black and Brown persons – for possessing or using cannabis, including pardons for prior federal offenses related to cannabis ...
Washington, D.C. — October 4, 2022 — Plaintiffs and attorneys in Merrill v. Milligan, a case challenging Alabama’s new congressional map for diluting the ability of Black voters to elect candidates of their choice, held ...
