Join Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz for a live briefing with the Practising Law Institute (PLI) on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Since 1966, the Freedom of Information Act has given the...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights has just launched the Open Records Project: FOIA for the Movement . The project is coordinated by Ian Head, senior legal worker at CCR, co-editor of the...
...Government actors have, it seems, endless reasons to shroud their actions in secrecy; that’s why tools like the Freedom of Information Act and state open records laws are so critical. But it turns...
Website and Activist Guide Focus on Freedom of Information Act for Social Justice Movements May 29, 2019, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights launched the Open Records Project:...
Updated October 2020! The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other public records laws have long been critical tools at the core of the Center for Constitutional Rights' social justice work in...
These documents confirm that local pipeline opponents are being monitored by high-level intelligence officers in the Governor’s office coordinating between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies through the Fusion Center. Emails from an intelligence officer in the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) document the activity of two local organizations – the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and L’eau Est la Vie camp. Both emails were sent by James Waskom, director of GOHSEP appointed by the governor, to Chuck Carr Brown, head of the LDEQ.
From Detention Watch Network (DWN) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Banking on Detention: Local Lockup Quotas and the Immigration Dragnet (2015) explores and exposes the depth of local...
The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (“I&A”) produced several emails sent in early 2017 between their personnel concerning a document they referred to as the “Race Paper.” Each email attached a separate version of the document, and some emails contain some feedback from DHS personnel on the structure of the document, call for in-person meetings to discuss the paper, and expressly mention “drivers” and “indicators."
Filing Seeks Documents Related to Border Patrol Emergency Response Unit April 19, 2019, New York, NY – Today, human rights attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of...
