The SPLC filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency after the death this week of Yulio Castro-Garrido, a 33-year-old Cuban immigrant who was detained at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga.
In his State of the Union address this week, President Trump congratulated his administration for having “taken historic actions to protect religious liberty.”
Schools are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a basic knowledge of the important role it played in shaping the United States and the impact it continues to have on race relations in America, according to a study released today by the SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance project.
The National Statuary Hall Collection welcomes two statues from each state to be displayed at our nation’s Capitol to commemorate people of historic renown.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday rejected the National Chicken Council’s (NCC’s) petition to waive all line speed limits at poultry plants.
Jamey Vibbert had owned his car dealership in Dothan, Alabama, for over a decade when authorities seized $25,000 from one of his bank accounts.
The state has not yet come up with an acceptable remedy to address the “horrendously inadequate” and unconstitutional mental health care and staffing needs of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC), the SPLC will argue today in closing arguments at a federal trial to correct the problems.
Fifteen Kentucky residents who are enrolled in Medicaid filed a class-action lawsuit today against the Trump administration, challenging its approval of sweeping changes to Medicaid law that will endanger the health care of tens of thousands of low-income individuals and families in the state.
The SPLC sent public records requests to 17 Florida counties this week, demanding more information about their recently announced plans to collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Courts in 14 Alabama counties awarded $2.2 million to law enforcement agencies through civil asset forfeiture actions filed in 2015 – and in a quarter of the 1,100 cases, law enforcement sought to keep property seized from people who were never even charged with a crime, according to a report released today by the SPLC and the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice.
