August 15, 2022
MONTGOMERY 鈥� On Friday, August 12th a judge dismissed the case Hudson v. Ivey filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU-AL) that had the potential to restore a...
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August 12, 2022
LOUISIANA 鈥� Amid rising concerns from youth advocates, the Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ) and the Special School District (SSD) recently admitted that they have no plans in place to provide general and special education...
August 12, 2022
WASHINGTON 鈥� The Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the鈥痜ollowing鈥痵tatement on the鈥痜ifth鈥痑nniversary of鈥痶he deadly鈥痺hite supremacist riots鈥痠n Charlottesville, Va. 鈥淔ive years ago, the jarring...
August 12, 2022
GEORGETOWN, Del. 鈥� This week, the work of local activists paid off after the Georgetown Historical Society doubled down on its commitment to continue flying a Confederate battle flag on the nonprofit鈥檚 property. The following...
August 11, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥� A federal court in Tennessee has cleared the way for a collective federal civil rights action brought on behalf of over 100 Latino workers against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Internal...
August 11, 2022
WASHINGTON 鈥撯�疎xclusive new reporting released today by Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚鈥�(人兽性交)鈥疕atewatch鈥痙etails the evolution of the key personalities and groups that staged the deadly 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally in Charlottesville...
August 10, 2022
San Diego, CA (Aug. 10, 2022) 鈥� On Friday, August 5, a district court judge ruled in Al Otro Lado v. Mayorkas that the government鈥檚 turnback policy 鈥� its practice of systematically rejecting asylum seekers at ports of entry along...
August 10, 2022
WASHINGTON 鈥� Yesterday, the Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the members of a new Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names, which will 鈥� identify geographic names and federal land unit names...
August 09, 2022
NEW ORLEANS 鈥� On the heels of the ACLU鈥檚 new research study about barriers to legal representation in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, the ACLU of Louisiana and its coalition partners 鈥� National...
August 08, 2022
MONTGOMERY 鈥� TODAY, the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU-AL) advocated in a Preliminary Injunction (PI) hearing that the decision by the Alabama Judicial Resources...
August 03, 2022
LOUISIANA 鈥� Following Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards鈥� announcement last month that the state will temporarily house incarcerated youth at the Angola prison complex, the Louisiana Center for Children鈥檚 Rights (LCCR), Loyola...
August 03, 2022
RICHMOND, Va. 鈥� Yesterday, Gov. Glen Youngkin鈥檚 appointee to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources, Ann Hunter McLean, resigned after her erroneous justifications for the preservation of Confederate monuments and memorials 鈥�...
August 03, 2022
COBB COUNTY, Ga. 鈥� The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) is representing a former Campbell High School student who is facing a new hearing today before a hearing officer designated by the Cobb County Board of Education after the...
August 02, 2022
ATLANTA, Ga. 鈥� The ACLU of Georgia ( ACLU-GA ) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) are offering support to educators, students and parents in Georgia as the school year begins under a new classroom censorship law (H.B...
July 26, 2022
LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. 鈥� The Georgia State Board of Education has reversed a decision by the Liberty County Board of Education to suspend a seventh-grade Black student from Lewis Frasier Middle School, ruling that the suspension...
July 26, 2022
ORLANDO, Fla. 鈥� Late yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交), Lambda Legal, Southern Legal Counsel (SLC), and private counsel Baker McKenzie filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Florida enacted House Bill 1557,...
July 25, 2022
Nashville, Tenn. 鈥� Following Tennessee Governor Bill Lee鈥檚 announcement that the state immediately will begin implementing its controversial private school voucher program for the school year starting in just a few weeks, public...
July 25, 2022
MONTGOMERY, AL 鈥� TODAY , The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local 32035 , TNG-CWA (the Guild of WBNG) announced their first collective bargaining agreement on July 15, 2022, covering...
July 22, 2022
JACKSONVILLE 鈥� TODAY the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida , Harvard Election Law Clinic and Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) filed for a preliminary injunction on behalf of the Jacksonville NAACP Branch , the...
July 22, 2022
WASHINGTON 鈥� Following the bipartisan House Jan. 6 Select Committee鈥檚 eighth public hearing last night, Margaret Huang, President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) issued the following statement: 鈥淥ver the last...
July 19, 2022
BIRMINGHAM 鈥� TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU-AL) filed litigation on behalf of Tiara Young Hudson challenging the constitutionality of the Alabama Judicial...
July 18, 2022
WASHINGTON D.C. 鈥� TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) , the League of Women Voters of Alabama (LWVAL) , the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) , Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and Stand-Up Mobile submitted...
July 18, 2022
ATLANTA 鈥� TODAY , July 18, 2022, Georgians called for the court to grant immediate relief through a preliminary injunction and block the portion of anti-voter law, S.B. 202 , that criminalizes Georgians providing food or water to...
July 15, 2022
NEW YORK - Today, the Southern Prisons Coalition, a group of civil and human rights organizations, submitted a new report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on the devastating...
July 15, 2022
COBB COUNTY, Ga. 鈥� Over community objections, the Cobb County School Board last night approved a policy that allows the district superintendent to authorize certain school employees to carry guns on school property, including...
