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Statement of Mary Bauer, Deputy Legal Director, the Southern Poverty Law Center on the DHS Request for More Authority Targeting Immigrant Children

March 29, 2019

“Given the lengths to which federal agencies have gone to defend and cover up their treatment of immigrant children, there is absolutely no way Congress should give the Department of Homeland Security more authority, especially...

SPLC Action Fund Statement On Passage of Senate Bill 77

March 28, 2019

The following statement is from Heidi Beirich, Director of the Intelligence Project for SPLC Action Fund. This is not what democracy looks like. The passage of Senate Bill 77 denies the will of Georgians who seek to remove...

Alabama Voting Rights Project Held Press Conference in Mobile on Achievements, Importance of Voting Rights

March 27, 2019

MOBILE, Ala. - Today, the Alabama Voting Rights Project, new voters Rodney Lofton and Rachel Whitley, and Mobile community leaders spoke to the achievements across the state in voting rights restoration and the importance of...

Alabama Voting Rights Project Holds Press Conference in Montgomery on Achievements, Importance of Voting Rights

March 27, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Today, the Alabama Voting Rights Project and community leaders in Montgomery spoke to the achievements across the state in voting rights restoration and the importance of ensuring every eligible voter in...

Federal Court Rules Against Trump Administration’s Kentucky and Arkansas Medicaid Waiver Projects That Include Work Requirements

March 27, 2019

WASHINGTON – A federal judge ruled against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ approval of Medicaid waiver projects in Kentucky and Arkansas that include work mandates and other cuts to coverage. This marks the...

SPLC Files Brief to Fight Changes to Public Charge in Foreign Affairs Manual

March 22, 2019

MONTGOMERY, ALA. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), alongside nearly a dozen other organizations, including Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, Latino Justice PRLDEF, and Muslim Advocates with the law...

Statement of Mary Bauer, Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center on United States Supreme Court ruling in Nielsen v. Preap:

March 19, 2019

“Today the Supreme Court dealt another blow to immigrant’s rights by ruling that certain immigrants are not entitled to bond hearings. This decision is a setback to everyone’s liberty and due process rights.” “Our nation’s harsh...

SPLC Board Of Directors Retains Tina Tchen To Lead Comprehensive Workplace Review

March 18, 2019

MONTGOMERY, AL - SPLC Board of Directors Chair Bryan Fair today announced that the Board has retained Tina Tchen of Buckley LLP to lead a comprehensive review of the SPLC’s workplace culture and its past policies and practices...

SPLC: New Zealand attack shows white supremacy is global terrorist movement

March 15, 2019

“The atrocity in New Zealand shows us, once again, that we’re dealing with an international terrorist movement linked by a dangerous white supremacist ideology that’s metastasizing in the echo chambers of internet chat rooms and...

Civil Rights Groups and Advocates Rally at the Florida Capitol for Criminal Justice Reform

March 13, 2019

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — More than 250 constituents from across state gathered today to rally at the Capitol in support of changes that would improve the state’s broken justice system. The rally was part of the Florida Campaign for...

SPLC Action Fund: Legislation Would Regulate Use of Restraints on Florida Students

March 12, 2019

The Florida Senate Education Committee today voted 8-0 to approve Senate Bill 62, which would regulate use of restraints for children at school. The following statement is by Bacardi Jackson, senior supervising attorney for the...

Florida Legislators Announce Bill to Ensure Structurally Sound Schools for All Students

March 12, 2019

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida state Rep. Anna Eskamani and Florida state Sen. Janet Cruz announce legislation that would create the Florida Students’ Bill of Rights. The legislation, House Bill 1233 and Senate Bill 586 , would...

SPLC: Trump Administration Plan to Convert Medicaid into a System of Block Grants "Irresponsible"

March 11, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s budget proposal to convert Medicaid into a system of block grants is by Sam Brooke, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “We...

Amicus Brief Supports Appeal Challenging Michigan’s Unconstitutional Diversion of Public Funds to Private Schools

March 08, 2019

Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS), a new initiative of Education Law Center and the Southern Poverty Law Center, has filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief urging the Michigan Supreme Court to strike down a state...

New Report Exposes SPLC's Clients Part of U.S. Government Tracking of Immigration Advocates & Journalists

March 07, 2019

“Recently, there have been a number of incredibly alarming incidents where our partners at Al Otro Lado (AOL), a binational legal services organization that serves refugees and other migrants in Tijuana and California, have been...

Keeping Children Out of Florida’s Adult Criminal Justice System Would Have Positive Economic Impact, Study Says

March 07, 2019

If all children in Florida’s adult criminal justice system were returned to the juvenile justice system, the added economic value would outweigh the costs, according to a new study prepared for the Southern Poverty Law Center (...

SPLC Action Fund Statement On Passage Of Senate Bill 77

March 05, 2019

The following statement is from Heidi Beirich, Director of the Intelligence Project for SPLC Action Fund. "At a time when cities all over the country are actively removing Confederate symbols from public spaces, it is...

SPLC Action Fund: Grand jury investigation of school officials into alleged ‘school safety’ crimes erodes democracy, politicizes tragedy

March 04, 2019

The Florida Supreme Court this week ordered a statewide grand jury to investigate school officials in light of last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people. The...

Statement From SPLC Action Fund On The Proposed Alabama Forfeiture Accountability System

February 28, 2019

Today, the Alabama District Attorneys Association announced the Alabama Forfeiture Accountability system, a voluntary data collection process for law enforcement to report on civil asset forfeiture in Alabama. The following...

SPLC Statement on House Judiciary Committee Meeting on Trump Administration Family Separation Policy

February 26, 2019

“It is shameful that witness after witness from this Administration continues to defend these cruel and traumatizing policies of separating children from their parents. Let’s be clear: family separation has not ended. It has...

Lawsuit Alleges ICE Agents Violated Workers’ Constitutional Rights Against Racial Profiling and Illegal Seizure

February 21, 2019

KNOXVILLE — The National Immigration Law Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the law firm of Sherrard, Roe, Voigt & Harbison filed a lawsuit today on behalf of seven workers detained during an April 2018 immigration...

SPLC Seeks Federal Court to Block ‘Return to Mexico’ Policy

February 21, 2019

Last night the Southern Poverty Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration’s new policy forcing asylum seekers to return to...

SPLC: Louisiana Department of Insurance Orders Bail Bond Companies to Return Millions in Excess Fees Charged to Low-income Defendants

February 21, 2019

NEW ORLEANS – A directive by the Louisiana Department of Insurance orders bail bond companies and their insurers underwriting bail bonds in Orleans Parish to return an estimated $6 million in illegal profits to as many as 50,000...

Hate Groups Reach Record High: Fourth Straight Year of Growth Fueled by Trump’s Fearmongering

February 20, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The number of hate groups operating across America rose to a record high – 1,020 – in 2018 as President Trump continued to fan the flames of white resentment over immigration and the country’s changing...

Civil Rights Groups Sue New Orleans for Map of Surveillance Camera Locations

February 20, 2019

NEW ORLEANS – Representing a Louisiana public defender, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana and the Southern Poverty Law Center today filed suit against the City of New Orleans over its refusal to provide a map of the...

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