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SPLC Whose Heritage Dataset Updates as of July 7, 2020

July 07, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released an update to its Whose Heritage report which tracks symbols of the Confederacy on public land across the United States: Total number of Confederate symbols...

Advocates Demand Alabama Protect Children in Sequel Facilities Across the State

July 06, 2020

(July 6, 2020 – Montgomery, Ala.) – Today children’s rights advocates sent a letter of concern urging leaders in Alabama to take sweeping and immediate action to protect foster youth placed in facilities operated by Sequel Youth...

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block on Asylum Transit Ban

July 06, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal appeals court has upheld a block on the Trump administration’s attempt to make individuals who traveled through a third country on the way to the United States before arriving at the southern border...

Groups Respond to SCOTUS Decision to Grant Stay Application in Alabama Voting Case

July 02, 2020

WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an emergency stay of a lower court injunction in People First of Alabama v. Merrill. Four justices noted in writing they would deny the application for stay...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to President Trump Threatening to Veto the Department of Defense Authorization Bill

July 01, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to President Trump’s tweet threatening to veto the Department of Defense Authorization bill if it includes the amendment...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Florida’s E-Verify Expansion

July 01, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday signed into law Senate Bill 664, an expansion of Florida’s E-Verify policy. The new law requires Florida’s public employers, including municipalities, local governments, and any...

Advocates Urge Georgia Dept. of Ed. Provide Proactive Measures to Meet the Needs of All Students During COVID-19

July 01, 2020

ATLANTA — Today, advocates from eight student rights and education advocacy organizations sent a letter to Georgia officials urging proactive and equitable measures to address the challenges that the COVID-19 crisis has had and...

SPLC Action Fund Statement: Florida Gov. DeSantis Shifts Public Funds From MSD Guardian Program

June 30, 2020

Tallahassee, Fla. — SPLC Action Fund Managing Attorney, Children’s Rights, Bacardi Jackson released the statement below after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reappropriated over $41 million dollars from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas...

SPLC Action Fund Calls on Georgia Governor to Veto Three Harmful Bills

June 30, 2020

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Today SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang sent a letter to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp asking him to veto three pieces of legislation that have passed the state House and Senate. “We write to urge...

PFPS Statement on SCOTUS decision in Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue

June 30, 2020

WASHINGTON – Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS), a campaign of the Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC Action Fund, Education Law Center, and Munger, Tolles & Olson, issued the below statement following the U.S. Supreme Court...

PERIL and SPLC Publish Guide to Help Parents and Caregivers Understand Risks of Online Radicalization During Times of Unrest

June 30, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In the midst of a pandemic and nationwide protests against racial injustice, American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today...

SPLC Joins #StopHateforProfit Campaign

June 30, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is joining the #StopHateforProfit campaign launched earlier this month by the Anti-Defamation League, Color of Change, Common Sense Media, Free Press, the NAACP and...

SPLC Action Fund: After Flag Vote, Mississippi Legislators Take Additional Steps to Help "Dismantle Vestiges of White Supremacy"

June 30, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. – The following statement is regarding the passage of the HCR 47 conference report yesterday in the Mississippi Legislature, which will put a constitutional amendment on the November 2020 ballot to end the two-...

SPLC Whose Heritage Dataset Updates as of June 29, 2020

June 29, 2020

SPLC Action Fund: Miss. Gov. Reeves Must Sign Bill to Remove Confederate Battle Emblem from the State Flag

June 28, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Mississippi Policy Director Brandon Jones released the following statement in response to the passage of HB 1796 by the Mississippi legislature to remove the Confederate battle emblem from...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to Mississippi Legislature Decision to Change the State Flag

June 27, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Brandon Jones released the following statement in response to the passage of House Concurrent Resolution 79 by the Mississippi legislature which clears the way for removal of the...

SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks Responds to the U.S. Army’s Delay in Banning and Removing Confederate Names on Military Assets

June 26, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to Army leaders announcing that they will hold off on banning Confederate symbols and renaming installations currently named for...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on the U.S. House Passing the Justice in Policing Act of 2020

June 25, 2020

WASHINGTON — The SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the statement below following the U.S. House of Representatives passing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 tonight: “While we are encouraged...

SPLC: In Huge Win for Alabamians, Eleventh Circuit Allows All State Probate Judges to Establish Curbside Voting for July 14 Runoff

June 25, 2020

ATLANTA – Today, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a huge win for Alabama voters who are at risk of contracting COVID-19. The Circuit Court denied the defendants’ emergency motion to stay a lower court decision in...

SPLC Statement on U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in DHS v. Thuraissigiam

June 25, 2020

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, in response to today’s Supreme Court decision in...

Advocates Take ICE Back to Court Requesting Enforcement of Previous Ruling to Protect People in Custody from COVID-19

June 25, 2020

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Last night, civil rights advocates filed a motion to enforce a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Central Division of California, seeking to enforce U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal’s...

SPLC Releases Updates to Whose Heritage Dataset

June 24, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released an update to its Whose Heritage report which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. The report shows that nearly 1,800...

SPLC Action Submits Statement After “Police Use of Force and Community Relations” Hearing on June 16

June 24, 2020

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, the SPLC Action Fund submitted a statement to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee calling on senators to consider the minimum requirements needed to reform the policing system following the recent murders...

After Failing to Act, DeSantis Shamefully and Dishonestly Scapegoats Migrant Farmworkers for Rising COVID-19 Cases

June 23, 2020

Miami, Fla. – The Migrant Service Providers, a coalition of over 40 organizations across South Florida, released the following statement in response to Governor DeSantis’s inaccurate and racist scapegoating of migrant farmworkers...

SPLC: Kentucky Election Poll Closures 'a Recipe for Disaster'

June 23, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement about Kentucky's primary elections today is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: "Today, the state of Kentucky follows states like Wisconsin and...

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