November 21, 2017Last week, CCR co-hosted a convening of lawyers, activists, and academics from the United States and South Africa, together with our partners at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (...
December 13, 2017, New York – In response to the court-appointed monitor in the Center for Constitutional Rights’ landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York filing his seventh status...
December 13, 2017...In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the civil rights groups behind the stop-and-frisk litigation, expressed concern over the number of undocumented stops and criticized...
December 14, 2017...In a statement released on Wednesday, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented plaintiffs in the litigation, acknowledged that the NYPD has made progress on developing new policies...
December 21, 2017This week, the New York City Council voted on two critical policing bills. The first, Intro 541-C, was part of the Right to Know Act , a package of legislation aimed at protecting the civil and human...
Democracy Now! speaks with Judge Shira Scheindlin, former United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, about her role CCR's case Floyd v. City of New York , which found the...
Updated: December 28, 2017
January 19, 2018Ahmer Abbasi came to the Unites States from Pakistan on a visitor visa in 1993. After he arrived, he applied for political asylum, and remained in the country after his visa was denied. Two weeks...
January 30, 2018, New York – In response to the announcement by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner James O’Neill that the New York City Police Department will be speeding up the expansion of its...
January 30, 2018...Opponents of the new timetable were quick to criticize it. "The NYPD decision today seems extremely premature," said Darius Charney, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional...
February 5, 2018, New York –Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a letter to the New York City Council Committee on...
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