June 19, 2019
NEW ORLEANS – As the presence of law enforcement officers in schools continue to grow in Louisiana and nationally, school policing data is not being made readily available to Louisiana’s citizens as required by federal law,...
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June 18, 2019
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 168, an immigration enforcement bill that bans sanctuary policies, including so called “sanctuary cities.” The following is a statement by Scott McCoy, senior policy counsel for the...
June 18, 2019
JACKSON, Miss. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will argue before the Mississippi Supreme Court to stop a funding scheme that diverts millions of local property tax dollars away from public schools and to privately...
June 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC – The immigration court system has failed to fulfill the constitutional and statutory promise of fair and impartial case-by-case review, according to a new report released today by Innovation Law Lab and the...
June 11, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Children attending the small percentage of the nation’s public schools that allow corporal punishment face a much greater likelihood of being struck than previously understood, with black students and students...
June 10, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A New Jersey state judge today ordered the dissolution of an organization known as the Jewish Institute for Global Awareness (JIFGA), which facilitates gay-to-straight “conversion therapy,” because its founders...
June 06, 2019
ATLANTA – Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Georgia filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s cash bail system that discriminates against people held in Georgia...
June 05, 2019
YouTube announced plans today to clean up extremism and hate speech on its popular service by removing thousands of videos and channels that advocate neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies. The decision by...
June 05, 2019
The Louisiana Senate today voted 30-6 in favor of House Bill 518 , which reforms the state’s unjust, expensive and out-of-step habitual offender statute by eliminating certain first-time, nonviolent offenses from later being...
June 04, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit in federal court today against two Arizona-based groups and their members who have been intimidating, threatening and harassing churches, pastors and...
June 03, 2019
The Louisiana Senate today voted 38-0 in favor of House Bill 160, which would require school districts in the state to collect data on school climate and school discipline. The following statement is by Victor Jones, senior...
June 03, 2019
The Louisiana Senate over the weekend passed House Bill 506, creating a task force to improve collection and reporting of data on basic law enforcement activities. The following statement is by Terry Landry Jr., policy counsel...
May 31, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement about the passage of SB 191 in the Alabama Legislature today is by Emily Early, staff attorney for SPLC Action Fund: "A mandatory reporting system for civil asset forfeiture can help...
May 30, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement about the passage of HB 380 in the Alabama Legislature today is by Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: "Today’s passage of HB 380 unnecessarily politicizes...
May 23, 2019
The Louisiana House today voted 85-1 to approve HB 446, which would give public school students a “reading voucher” for private uses. The following statement is by Victor Jones, senior supervising attorney for the SPLC Action...
May 23, 2019
The Louisiana House today approved Senate Bill 108, which absolves bail bond companies from having to refund as much as $6 million overcharged to approximately 50,000 New Orleans families after the Commissioner of Insurance found...
May 22, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has filed complaints against the Athens City Board of Education (Board) in Alabama, seeking reinstatement of two Athens seniors’(G.K. and M.B.) at Athens High School who...
May 22, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Social justice educators are shifting the narrative on professional development through social media where thought leaders who, historically, might have been marginalized, are finding a platform and a source of...
May 16, 2019
“Instead of addressing the deeply flawed immigration policies that have resulted in a very real humanitarian crisis at the Southern border and in detention centers across our country, President Trump is only doubling down in his...
May 14, 2019
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – To fight for a healthier democracy and fully realize the promise of the Civil Rights Movement, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced the formation of a new Voting Rights Practice Group. In the group’...
May 13, 2019
A preliminary injunction requested by the Southern Poverty Law Center to allow students to participate in today's Sophie B. Wright Charter School's high school graduation was granted this morning by Orleans Parish Civil District...
May 13, 2019
The Louisiana House today voted against House Bill 65, which would have made people with past convictions eligible for jury duty. The following statement is by Jamila Johnson, senior supervising attorney for the SPLC Action Fund...
May 10, 2019
SAN DIEGO, Ca.—The Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for Constitutional Rights, and American Immigration Council argued in federal district court today against the government’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Trump...
May 09, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement on the passage of HB 380 in the Alabama House of Representatives is by Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: "Alabama has a prison overcrowding crisis on its...
May 08, 2019
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Admire Harvard has spent nearly 10 years locked up in solitary confinement in the Florida prison system. Harvard, a 28-year-old black transgender woman, has been subjected to solitary confinement in a men’s...
