Montgomery, Ala. — Last night, the Montgomery City Council agreed to repeal an ordinance that criminalized panhandling. The original ordinance was passed in July and required anyone cited or arrested for panhandling to serve a...

MONTGOMERY, AL — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center staff voted to join the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. The following is a statement by SPLC Interim CEO and President Karen Baynes-Dunning: “We look forward to...

MIAMI -- The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has failed to ensure the safety and welfare of immigrants incarcerated in South Florida detention facilities, according to a new report released by the Southern...

NEW ORLEANS – In a win for the city’s public defenders and civil rights groups representing them, a state appeals court has ordered the City of New Orleans to comply with a public records request for the locations of the city’s...

SAN DIEGO – A federal judge today blocked the Trump administration’s asylum ban from being applied to thousands of asylum seekers who were unlawfully prevented from accessing the U.S. asylum process before the ban was implemented...

Yesterday, November 13th, the Committee on House Administration’s Election Subcommittee released a scathing, 144-page report entitled, “Voting Rights and Election Administration in the United States of America." The following...

Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in federal appellate court in Carson v. Makin, a case challenging the State of Maine’s decision not to use public education funding to pay...

LOUISIANA – Louisiana is failing to meet its obligation to provide mental health services to Medicaid-eligible children and families in the state, forcing thousands to unnecessarily cycle in and out of hospitals and psychiatric...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of South Carolina, Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center filed a federal lawsuit today...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Civil Rights Memorial with a special two-day event in November. The Civil Rights Memorial , dedicated by the SPLC on Nov. 5,...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Friday, October 18th, the U.S. District Court issued a ruling on a motion for preliminary injunction of Florida Senate Bill 7066 (SB 7066). The following statement is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for...

Washington, D.C. - Today a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard oral arguments in two cases concerning the Trump administration’s approval of Medicaid waiver projects, which among...