June 05, 2019
The Louisiana Senate today voted 30-6 in favor of House Bill 518 , which reforms the state’s unjust, expensive and out-of-step habitual offender statute by eliminating certain first-time, nonviolent offenses from later being...
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June 04, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit in federal court today against two Arizona-based groups and their members who have been intimidating, threatening and harassing churches, pastors and...
June 03, 2019
The Louisiana Senate today voted 38-0 in favor of House Bill 160, which would require school districts in the state to collect data on school climate and school discipline. The following statement is by Victor Jones, senior...
June 03, 2019
The Louisiana Senate over the weekend passed House Bill 506, creating a task force to improve collection and reporting of data on basic law enforcement activities. The following statement is by Terry Landry Jr., policy counsel...
May 31, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement about the passage of SB 191 in the Alabama Legislature today is by Emily Early, staff attorney for SPLC Action Fund: "A mandatory reporting system for civil asset forfeiture can help...
May 30, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement about the passage of HB 380 in the Alabama Legislature today is by Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: "Today’s passage of HB 380 unnecessarily politicizes...
May 23, 2019
The Louisiana House today voted 85-1 to approve HB 446, which would give public school students a “reading voucher” for private uses. The following statement is by Victor Jones, senior supervising attorney for the SPLC Action...
May 23, 2019
The Louisiana House today approved Senate Bill 108, which absolves bail bond companies from having to refund as much as $6 million overcharged to approximately 50,000 New Orleans families after the Commissioner of Insurance found...
May 22, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has filed complaints against the Athens City Board of Education (Board) in Alabama, seeking reinstatement of two Athens seniors’(G.K. and M.B.) at Athens High School who...
May 22, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Social justice educators are shifting the narrative on professional development through social media where thought leaders who, historically, might have been marginalized, are finding a platform and a source of...
May 16, 2019
“Instead of addressing the deeply flawed immigration policies that have resulted in a very real humanitarian crisis at the Southern border and in detention centers across our country, President Trump is only doubling down in his...
May 14, 2019
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – To fight for a healthier democracy and fully realize the promise of the Civil Rights Movement, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced the formation of a new Voting Rights Practice Group. In the group’...
May 13, 2019
A preliminary injunction requested by the Southern Poverty Law Center to allow students to participate in today's Sophie B. Wright Charter School's high school graduation was granted this morning by Orleans Parish Civil District...
May 13, 2019
The Louisiana House today voted against House Bill 65, which would have made people with past convictions eligible for jury duty. The following statement is by Jamila Johnson, senior supervising attorney for the SPLC Action Fund...
May 10, 2019
SAN DIEGO, Ca.—The Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for Constitutional Rights, and American Immigration Council argued in federal district court today against the government’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Trump...
May 09, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement on the passage of HB 380 in the Alabama House of Representatives is by Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: "Alabama has a prison overcrowding crisis on its...
May 08, 2019
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Admire Harvard has spent nearly 10 years locked up in solitary confinement in the Florida prison system. Harvard, a 28-year-old black transgender woman, has been subjected to solitary confinement in a men’s...
May 06, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s Department of Corrections (ADOC) will be required to immediately take detailed steps to monitor people in segregation in prison and implement other preventive measures to reduce the risk of suicides,...
May 06, 2019
BATON ROUGE – On the heels of a public opinion poll showing broad bipartisan support for Louisiana’s 2017 Justice Reinvestment Package, hundreds of criminal justice advocates descended on the Capitol today for Louisianans for...
May 02, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement is from Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: “The Alabama Legislature deserves praise for fixing a longstanding legal loophole in how Alabama county jails have...
May 02, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - While disturbing incidents of hate and bias in schools are regularly reported in the news media, the incidents are just a fraction of what educators are encountering in classrooms across the country, a new...
May 02, 2019
The following statement is from Keegan Hankes, senior research analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Facebook and Instagram announced today that they have banned several far-right, antisemitic and extremist figures and...
April 27, 2019
The following statement is from Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, following the deadly shooting at a California synagogue earlier today: “Today we saw another horrific act of...
April 26, 2019
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Today the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia certified class action status in J.E.C.M v. Hayes , a lawsuit challenging the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) policies and...
April 26, 2019
Louisiana once again has the highest incarceration rate, imprisoning 719 of every 100,000 residents, according to a report released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. The following statement is by Jamila Johnson...
