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Families’ Attorneys Threaten to Sue Cobb County Schools to Protect Rights of Students with Disabilities

September 23, 2021

ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and two Atlanta area law firms are demanding the Cobb County School District immediately implement COVID-19 safety protocols in their schools to protect the rights of students with...

Florida’s Racist Anti-Immigrant Bill Overturned in Federal Court

September 22, 2021

MIAMI - A federal court ruled that key sections of Florida’s anti-sanctuary law violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, delivering a decision that strikes a major blow to the state’s anti-immigrant policy...

Voting Rights of Tens of Thousands of Mississippians at Stake Today in Federal Court

September 22, 2021

NEW ORLEANS – Today, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear en banc oral arguments in Harness v. Watson to review an earlier three-judge decision regarding a legal challenge of Mississippi’s lifetime...

SPLC to Jacksonville Mayor: #MoveItNow

September 16, 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – In June 2020, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry promised to remove the Monument to the Women of the Confederacy in Springfield Park. While the statue has been covered, it still sits in a public park,...

Federal Court Ruling a Major Victory for Farmworkers’ Rights

September 16, 2021

GREENSBORO, N.C. - North Carolina farmworkers and their sole union won a substantial victory yesterday when a federal court struck down part of a state law that would have stripped farmworkers and their union of their rights to...

SPLC Demands Mississippi Lawmakers Take Action Over Water Violations at Parchman Prison

September 10, 2021

Jackson, Miss.—Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center, in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, are urging Mississippi lawmakers and officials to take swift action to address violations of environmental...

#MoveItNow: Billboard Tells Williamson County to Evict Confederate Monument

September 08, 2021

AUSTIN, Tx. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised a billboard in support of Wilco Patriots , which has been advocating for removal of a Confederate monument in front of the Historic Williamson County Courthouse for more...

Families, Human Rights Advocates Seek Hearing on Illegal Rule Banning Mask Mandates in Florida Public Schools

September 07, 2021

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida NAACP, Florida Student Power Network, and several medically vulnerable families across Florida are requesting a hearing before the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings to invalidate an...

SPLC: Transfers Undermine Sec. Mayorkas’ Pledge

September 03, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Maura Finn, lead attorney with SPLC’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative, regarding the long-overdue end to the practice of caging...

SPLC Applauds Virginia Supreme Court Ruling to Allow Removal of Monument Avenue Confederate Statue

September 03, 2021

RICHMOND, Va. – Recently, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that the state can remove its statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from public display on Monument Avenue. The following statement is from SPLC Chief of Staff...

BREAKING: Court Says Turnbacks of Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers Are Unlawful

September 02, 2021

San Diego, CA – A federal judge declared unlawful the U.S. government’s turnbacks of asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry along the U.S southern border. The court ruled that the United States is required by law to inspect...

SPLC Calls for Concerted Action as FBI Hate Crime Report Documents Highest Numbers Since 2008

September 02, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Responding to the just-released FBI 2020 Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report , the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is calling for the Biden administration and Congress to take stronger action to improve...

Exclusive Reporting: Far-Right Propagandist with Russian Ties Disappears after Jan 6.

September 01, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch team released a new investigative report today detailing how far-right propogandist Charles Bausman involved himself in Pennsylvania-based Stop the Steal...

Immigrant Rights Advocates Urge Court to Permanently End Trump-Era Policy that Turned Back Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers

September 01, 2021

San Diego, CA – Immigrant rights advocates released the following statement after presenting oral arguments before U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of California, where they urged the court to declare...

Report: Georgia Leads the Nation With 45 Public Schools Named After Confederate Leaders

August 30, 2021

ATLANTA, Ga. — Recently, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) updated its Whose Heritage? database, which found 100 additional schools glorifying Confederate leaders scattered across the country. To date, there are 45 public...

Tia T. Gordon Joins Southern Poverty Law Center as Chief Communications Officer

August 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced that Tia T. Gordon , an award-winning global communications strategist, has joined the organization as Chief Communications Officer. Tia will oversee strategy...

Judge finds laws criminalizing panhandling to be unconstitutional

August 30, 2021

Montgomery, Ala.-- Alabama’s panhandling laws violate the First Amendment’s protection of free speech, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the state by the Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU of Alabama and...

SPLC Responds to Increasing COVID-19 Rates in Cobb County Schools

August 30, 2021

COBB COUNTY, Ga. – Cobb County Schools, Georgia’s second largest school district, which is responsible for more than 100,000 students each year, reported last Friday that the number of COVID-19 cases in their school district...

SPLC: Our Fight For Rights of Asylum Seekers Continues Despite Supreme Court's Ruling on “Remain in Mexico"

August 24, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of a stay of...

Advocates Decry Biden Administration’s Appeal Fighting Order to Vaccinate Medically Vulnerable People in ICE Detention

August 24, 2021

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Yesterday, the Biden Administration took the surprising step of filing an appeal to a federal court order requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to vaccinate medically vulnerable people in...

SPLC: ICE Must Finally Close Irwin Detention Center

August 23, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Maura Finn, lead attorney with the SPLC’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative regarding continuing immigration detention operations at the...

Families, FL NAACP Sue to Have Florida Health Department Rule on School Mask Mandates Thrown Out

August 20, 2021

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Law Offices of Joshua Spector, P.A. filed a legal complaint challenging part of an Emergency Rule issued on August 6 by the Florida Department of...

SPLC Reports Reveal Current Conditions of Racial Discrimination in Voting in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi

August 16, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a series of reports today revealing current, consistent, and well-documented racial discrimination in voting in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi as Congress...

The Southern Poverty Law Center and community partners file amicus brief to support tenant rights in Georgia eviction lawsuit

August 16, 2021

ATLANTA -- The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has filed an amicus brief in the Georgia Court of Appeals in Efficiency Lodge Inc. v. Neason. The case involves a landlord that sought to self-help evict some of its tenants...

Rights Advocates Seek Relief for Thousands of Asylum Seekers Left Behind by Biden Administration Wind-down of Remain in Mexico Policy

August 16, 2021

Los Angeles, CA – Immigration advocates filed an amended complaint in a class action lawsuit challenging the continuing effects of the “Remain in Mexico” policy on asylum-seeking individuals who remain stranded outside the United...

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