“The atrocity in New Zealand shows us, once again, that we’re dealing with an international terrorist movement linked by a dangerous white supremacist ideology that’s metastasizing in the echo chambers of internet chat rooms and...

The Florida Senate Education Committee today voted 8-0 to approve Senate Bill 62, which would regulate use of restraints for children at school. The following statement is by Bacardi Jackson, senior supervising attorney for the...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s budget proposal to convert Medicaid into a system of block grants is by Sam Brooke, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “We...

“Recently, there have been a number of incredibly alarming incidents where our partners at Al Otro Lado (AOL), a binational legal services organization that serves refugees and other migrants in Tijuana and California, have been...

The following statement is from Heidi Beirich, Director of the Intelligence Project for SPLC Action Fund. "At a time when cities all over the country are actively removing Confederate symbols from public spaces, it is...

Today, the Alabama District Attorneys Association announced the Alabama Forfeiture Accountability system, a voluntary data collection process for law enforcement to report on civil asset forfeiture in Alabama. The following...

KNOXVILLE — The National Immigration Law Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the law firm of Sherrard, Roe, Voigt & Harbison filed a lawsuit today on behalf of seven workers detained during an April 2018 immigration...

NEW ORLEANS – A directive by the Louisiana Department of Insurance orders bail bond companies and their insurers underwriting bail bonds in Orleans Parish to return an estimated $6 million in illegal profits to as many as 50,000...

NEW ORLEANS – Representing a Louisiana public defender, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana and the Southern Poverty Law Center today filed suit against the City of New Orleans over its refusal to provide a map of the...

JACKSON, Miss. – On Wednesday, February 13, a federal district court in Mississippi granted class certification for the Plaintiffs in Hopkins v. Hosemann , a case seeking to reinstate voting rights for Mississippi citizens...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement, in response to Governor Kay Ivey’s prison construction plan, is by Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “We greet Governor Ivey’s announcement...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – This statement by Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is in response to a Friday evening press release by the Alabama Department of Corrections and Commissioner Jeff Dunn: “As the Court...