April 03, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice today released an unprecedented analysis of the Alabama prison system concluding that conditions at the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) likely violate the Eighth Amendment of the U.S...
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April 02, 2019
MONTGOMERY, AL – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today named Board member Karen Baynes-Dunning interim President and CEO effective immediately. Baynes-Dunning has served on the SPLC Board of Directors since October 2017...
April 02, 2019
MERIDIAN, Miss. – The Meridian City Council voted today to approve an agreement with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law to...
March 29, 2019
“Given the lengths to which federal agencies have gone to defend and cover up their treatment of immigrant children, there is absolutely no way Congress should give the Department of Homeland Security more authority, especially...
March 28, 2019
The following statement is from Heidi Beirich, Director of the Intelligence Project for SPLC Action Fund. This is not what democracy looks like. The passage of Senate Bill 77 denies the will of Georgians who seek to remove...
March 27, 2019
MOBILE, Ala. - Today, the Alabama Voting Rights Project, new voters Rodney Lofton and Rachel Whitley, and Mobile community leaders spoke to the achievements across the state in voting rights restoration and the importance of...
March 27, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Today, the Alabama Voting Rights Project and community leaders in Montgomery spoke to the achievements across the state in voting rights restoration and the importance of ensuring every eligible voter in...
March 27, 2019
WASHINGTON – A federal judge ruled against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ approval of Medicaid waiver projects in Kentucky and Arkansas that include work mandates and other cuts to coverage. This marks the...
March 22, 2019
MONTGOMERY, ALA. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), alongside nearly a dozen other organizations, including Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, Latino Justice PRLDEF, and Muslim Advocates with the law...
March 19, 2019
“Today the Supreme Court dealt another blow to immigrant’s rights by ruling that certain immigrants are not entitled to bond hearings. This decision is a setback to everyone’s liberty and due process rights.” “Our nation’s harsh...
March 18, 2019
MONTGOMERY, AL - SPLC Board of Directors Chair Bryan Fair today announced that the Board has retained Tina Tchen of Buckley LLP to lead a comprehensive review of the SPLC’s workplace culture and its past policies and practices...
March 15, 2019
“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...
March 13, 2019
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — More than 250 constituents from across state gathered today to rally at the Capitol in support of changes that would improve the state’s broken justice system. The rally was part of the Florida Campaign for...
March 12, 2019
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...
March 12, 2019
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida state Rep. Anna Eskamani and Florida state Sen. Janet Cruz announce legislation that would create the Florida Students’ Bill of Rights. The legislation, House Bill 1233 and Senate Bill 586 , would...
March 11, 2019
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...
March 08, 2019
Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS), a new initiative of Education Law Center and the Southern Poverty Law Center, has filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief urging the Michigan Supreme Court to strike down a state...
March 07, 2019
“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...
March 07, 2019
If all children in Florida’s adult criminal justice system were returned to the juvenile justice system, the added economic value would outweigh the costs, according to a new study prepared for the Southern Poverty Law Center (...
March 05, 2019
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...
March 04, 2019
The Florida Supreme Court this week ordered a statewide grand jury to investigate school officials in light of last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people. The...
February 28, 2019
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...
February 26, 2019
“It is shameful that witness after witness from this Administration continues to defend these cruel and traumatizing policies of separating children from their parents. Let’s be clear: family separation has not ended. It has...
February 21, 2019
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...
February 21, 2019
Last night the Southern Poverty Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration’s new policy forcing asylum seekers to return to...
