Circuit Court Judge Vincent Falcone declined to throw out complaint from the P.E.C. that would uphold deed restriction requiring Orange County Public Schools to use Hungerford property for educational purposes  

PHOENIX — Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona ruled that the federal government does not have immunity under federal tort law for claims of intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence in A.P.F. v. U.S., a lawsuit brought by asylum-seeking fathers and their children who were separated at the border in 2017 and…

WASHINGTON — Today, youth and civil rights advocates renewed their request for the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to investigate Louisiana’s repeated failure to provide general and special education for children in secure care facilities plagued by systemic inequities.  In a letter to OCR, advocates describe how the Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ)…

Plaintiffs allege CoreCivic forced them to work for as little as $1 per day by threatening punishment, including solitary confinement and deprivation of basic necessities

Six National Organizations Release Data and Findings from Community Conversations About the Impacts of Police Presence in Schools on Black Girls, Trans and Gender-Expansive Youth

Complaint cites concerns about land development that could price out the last intact Gullah Geechee community in Georgia   

Leaders at every level must act now to end the culture of anti-Blackness in policing 

Several Georgia voters and civil rights groups are challenging the state’s 2021 redrawn congressional district map that dilutes the voting power of Black Georgians