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JUDGE RULES TURNBACK POLICY ILLEGAL, GOVERNMENT MUST END PRACTICE

August 10, 2022

San Diego, CA (Aug. 10, 2022) – On Friday, August 5, a district court judge ruled in Al Otro Lado v. Mayorkas that the government’s turnback policy — its practice of systematically rejecting asylum seekers at ports of entry along...

SPLC Applauds Appointments to Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names

August 10, 2022

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the members of a new Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names, which will “ identify geographic names and federal land unit names...

ACLU OF LOUISIANA AND COALITION PARTNERS CONDUCT LEGAL RIGHTS INITIATIVE AT LOUISIANA'S IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTERS

August 09, 2022

NEW ORLEANS — On the heels of the ACLU’s new research study about barriers to legal representation in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, the ACLU of Louisiana and its coalition partners – National...

SPLC and ACLU-AL Advocate to Immediately Block Commission's Decision to Steal Judgeship From Jefferson County During Court Hearing on Preliminary Injunction

August 08, 2022

MONTGOMERY – TODAY, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU-AL) advocated in a Preliminary Injunction (PI) hearing that the decision by the Alabama Judicial Resources...

Advocates Demand Education Plan for Youth Moving to Angola Prison

August 03, 2022

LOUISIANA – Following Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards’ announcement last month that the state will temporarily house incarcerated youth at the Angola prison complex, the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights (LCCR), Loyola...

SPLC Applauds Resignation of “Lost Cause” Sympathizer from the Virginia Board of Historic Resources

August 03, 2022

RICHMOND, Va. — Yesterday, Gov. Glen Youngkin’s appointee to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources, Ann Hunter McLean, resigned after her erroneous justifications for the preservation of Confederate monuments and memorials –...

The Southern Poverty Law Center to Represent Student in Retaliatory Discipline Hearing

August 03, 2022

COBB COUNTY, Ga. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is representing a former Campbell High School student who is facing a new hearing today before a hearing officer designated by the Cobb County Board of Education after the...

The Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU of Georgia Remind Educators, Students of their First Amendment Rights as School Year Begins under new Classroom Censorship Law

August 02, 2022

ATLANTA, Ga. – The ACLU of Georgia ( ACLU-GA ) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are offering support to educators, students and parents in Georgia as the school year begins under a new classroom censorship law (H.B...

Georgia State Board of Education Reverses Decision to Suspend Liberty County Student

July 26, 2022

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. – The Georgia State Board of Education has reversed a decision by the Liberty County Board of Education to suspend a seventh-grade Black student from Lewis Frasier Middle School, ruling that the suspension...

Florida Families and Advocacy Groups Sue to Block the Florida Law Known as “Don’t Say Gay”

July 26, 2022

ORLANDO, Fla. – Late yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Lambda Legal, Southern Legal Counsel (SLC), and private counsel Baker McKenzie filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Florida enacted House Bill 1557,...

Parents and Community Members Urge Tennessee Court to Stop Rushed School Voucher Rollout

July 25, 2022

Nashville, Tenn. – Following Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s announcement that the state immediately will begin implementing its controversial private school voucher program for the school year starting in just a few weeks, public...

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local 32035, TNG-CWA Reach Collective Bargaining Agreement

July 25, 2022

MONTGOMERY, AL – TODAY , The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local 32035 , TNG-CWA (the Guild of WBNG) announced their first collective bargaining agreement on July 15, 2022, covering...

Jacksonville Residents and Civil Rights Groups Seek Injunction to Block Jacksonville City Council’s Racially-Gerrymandered Maps

July 22, 2022

JACKSONVILLE – TODAY the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida , Harvard Election Law Clinic and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed for a preliminary injunction on behalf of the Jacksonville NAACP Branch , the...

House Committee Has Made Important Strides In Exposing Threats to Our Democracy

July 22, 2022

WASHINGTON – Following the bipartisan House Jan. 6 Select Committee’s eighth public hearing last night, Margaret Huang, President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement: “Over the last...

TIARA HUDSON, VOTING RIGHTS GROUPS CHALLENGE COMMISSION'S DECISION TO STEAL JUDGESHIP FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY

July 19, 2022

BIRMINGHAM – TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU-AL) filed litigation on behalf of Tiara Young Hudson challenging the constitutionality of the Alabama Judicial...

SPLC and LWV Call on Supreme Court To Defend Equal Representation For Black Alabamians By Affirming Decision Striking Down Alabama Congressional Map

July 18, 2022

WASHINGTON D.C. – TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , the League of Women Voters of Alabama (LWVAL) , the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) , Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and Stand-Up Mobile submitted...

Georgians Call For Immediate End To Ban On Line Relief In Preliminary Injunction Hearing

July 18, 2022

ATLANTA – TODAY , July 18, 2022, Georgians called for the court to grant immediate relief through a preliminary injunction and block the portion of anti-voter law, S.B. 202 , that criminalizes Georgians providing food or water to...

New Report: Human Rights Violations in Prisons Throughout Southern United States Cause Disparate & Lasting Harm in Black Communities 

July 15, 2022

NEW YORK - Today, the Southern Prisons Coalition, a group of civil and human rights organizations, submitted a new report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on the devastating...

The Southern Poverty Law Center: Cobb County School Board Decision to Arm School Employees Endangers Lives

July 15, 2022

COBB COUNTY, Ga. – Over community objections, the Cobb County School Board last night approved a policy that allows the district superintendent to authorize certain school employees to carry guns on school property, including...

SURVIVORS AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS SUBMIT COMPLAINT AGAINST ICE, NURSE AND PRIVATE PRISON COMPANY DEMANDING JUSTICE AND INVESTIGATION INTO STEWART DETENTION CENTER

July 13, 2022

ATLANTA – Today, four survivors of the Stewart Detention Detention Center (Stewart) in collaboration with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, El Refugio, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Human Rights Clinic, Georgia Latino...

SPLC: NEW DEPARTMENT OF LABOR POLICY A WELCOME STEP FOR PROTECTING LONG EXPLOITED IMMIGRANT WORKERS

July 08, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released new policy guidance for immigrant workers involved in worksite labor disputes on how to seek the DOL’s support to receive immigration-related prosecutorial discretion...

SPLC: PRESIDENT BIDEN MUST ACT WITH URGENCY TO ADDRESS HUMAN RIGHTS CATASTROPHE AT THE BORDER

June 30, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Stephanie M. Alvarez-Jones, staff attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project , responding to today’s Supreme Court’s ruling on...

Georgia Department of Labor Agrees to Settle Unemployment Claim Lawsuit with Promise to Improve Speed of Unpaid and Unprocessed Unemployment Claims

June 30, 2022

ATLANTA -- Earlier today, U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee approved a preliminary settlement in a lawsuit filed against the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) over the payment and processing of unemployment insurance benefits...

Anti-Confederate Billboard Urges Removal of Jim Crow Statue from Putnam County Courthouse Grounds

June 29, 2022

PALATKA, Fla. – On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised a billboard in support of the Putnam Alliance For Equity and Justice , which has been advocating for the removal of a Confederate monument from the entrance to...

Anti-Confederate Billboard Urges Removal of Jim Crow Statue from Putnam County Courthouse Grounds

June 29, 2022

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