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After Georgia鈥檚 Cobb County School District failed to implement and enforce recommended safety protocols to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in schools, the Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies filed a federal lawsuit describing how the school district鈥檚 actions unlawfully deny students with...
The 人兽性交, the and the of New Jersey filed a lawsuit that seeks a hearing before the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings to invalidate an emergency rule...
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After the Florida Department of Health filed an emergency rule that barred school districts in the state from requiring students to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic,聽the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Law Offices of Joshua Spector, P.A. filed a legal complaint.
The petition...
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Under Florida鈥檚 Baker Act, thousands of children each year are taken from their classrooms and transported 鈥� handcuffed and in the back of police cars 鈥� to psychiatric facilities without their parents鈥� input or consent and sometimes over their objections. There, they can be held for up to 72...
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The Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) discriminates against foster children and youth with mental impairments by unnecessarily segregating them in restrictive, psychiatric residential treatment facilities and by denying them an opportunity to grow up in loving homes and community-based...
After Florida teacher Amy Donofrio refused a request by school officials to remove a Black Lives Matter flag hanging outside her high school classroom, she was reassigned to nonteaching duties and banned from her school鈥檚 campus. The Southern Poverty Law Center and its co-counsel,聽Scott聽鈥⒙燱agner...
