ATLANTA, Ga – Southern Poverty Law Center Deputy Legal Director May Bauer, who oversees the Immigrant Justice Project, issued the below statement following news reports that President Trump has ordered ICE to conduct raids in a...

NEW ORLEANS – As the presence of law enforcement officers in schools continue to grow in Louisiana and nationally, school policing data is not being made readily available to Louisiana’s citizens as required by federal law,...

JACKSON, Miss. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will argue before the Mississippi Supreme Court to stop a funding scheme that diverts millions of local property tax dollars away from public schools and to privately...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Children attending the small percentage of the nation’s public schools that allow corporal punishment face a much greater likelihood of being struck than previously understood, with black students and students...

ATLANTA – Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Georgia filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s cash bail system that discriminates against people held in Georgia...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...