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Settlement In Forced Labor Case Against Private Prison Company Operating Immigration Detention Center

October 19, 2023

ATLANTA — This week the parties reached a settlement in a forced labor case against CoreCivic, Inc. (CoreCivic), the private prison company that operates Stewart Detention Center (Stewart) in Lumpkin, GA, for U.S. Immigration and...

Groups Find Police Presence in Schools Contributes to Sexual Violence

October 18, 2023

(OCTOBER 18, 2023) – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Advancement Project, Alliance for Educational Justice, the National Women’s Law Center, the In Our Names Network, and Interrupting Criminalization hosted a...

SPLC Files Appeal for Sapelo Island’s Hogg Hummock Community Over Unlawful Rezoning Amendment

October 18, 2023

SAPELO ISLAND, Ga. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , in partnership with Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP , filed an appeal in the Superior Court of McIntosh County on behalf of residents of Hogg Hummock, citing an...

SPLC Mourns Death of Leonard Cure, Renews Call for Reimagining of Policing in America

October 18, 2023

ATLANTA — Leonard Cure, a 53-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a police officer in Camden County, Ga. on Monday. In 2020, Mr. Cure was exonerated after being incarcerated for nearly two decades in Florida. “Our hearts...

Common Cause Georgia, League of Women Voters, SPLC Applaud Court’s Decision to Move Redistricting Case Forward

October 17, 2023

ATLANTA — A three-judge panel for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia is allowing a case challenging Georgia’s racially gerrymandered congressional district map to move forward. The case, brought by...

Vermilion NAACP, SPLC Sue to Block Abbeville’s Malapportioned Map

October 17, 2023

ABBEVILLE, La. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit today on behalf of the Vermilion Parish NAACP to block the Abbeville City Council-approved redistricting map that denies equal representation to voters, in...

SPLC Calls for Better Data and More Prevention Initiatives to Address Historic Level of Hate Crimes

October 16, 2023

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, following the release of the FBI 2022 Hate Crime Statistics Act report , the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) once again called for action by Congress to expand prevention efforts and make hate crime...

Toussaint Ridgeway, Released after 29 Years of Incarceration

October 13, 2023

LOUISIANA —Decades after being sentenced to life without parole in Louisiana, Toussaint Ridgeway has been released from custody. “Toussaint is a remorseful, talented, calm, and focused father and grandfather,” said Emily Lubin,...

Court Refuses to Lift Barriers for Black Voters in Georgia

October 12, 2023

ATLANTA – A Georgia district court on Wednesday refused to temporarily lift restrictions to absentee voting, drop boxes and other voting methods that will make it harder for Black voters to cast a ballot for the 2024 election...

SPLC Statement on DOE Investigation of Jefferson Parish School System

October 11, 2023

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced support for the decision by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to investigate widespread reports of discrimination...

New SPLC Report Exposes Punitive Juvenile Justice System In Mississippi

October 10, 2023

JACKSON, Miss . — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a troubling report on the state of Mississippi’s youth legal system, which leads the nation in pushing students out of the classroom and into prisons. The...

National Federation of the Blind of Alabama and Voters Sue Alabama Counties for Inaccessible Absentee Voting

October 03, 2023

MOBILE, Ala. — The National Federation of the Blind of Alabama and four individuals — Beverly Clayton, Gilley Pressley, Dr. Eric Peebles, and David Rissling — filed a lawsuit today against three Alabama counties for their failure...

SPLC Designates October as Hate Crimes Awareness Month

September 29, 2023

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — With the United States experiencing the highest levels of hate violence on record, according to the FBI’s latest hate crime report , the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is sounding the alarm about the...

SPLC Backs Redistricting Data Hub to Provide Nonpartisan Voting Rights Data for the South

September 26, 2023

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced a new effort to provide local redistricting data through the Redistricting Data Hub (RDH) , a nonpartisan centralized hub that will be accessible to...

U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Allows Drawing of Alabama Congressional Map to Move Forward

September 26, 2023

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Alabama Attorney General’s request to delay the rollout of the state's new court-ordered congressional map, which could have endangered its timely implementation for the...

SPLC: Mississippi Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Hinds County Residents’ Right to Elect Judges

September 21, 2023

JACKSON, Miss. – Today, the Mississippi Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a provision of HB 1020 that, in part, strips Hinds County residents of their constitutionally protected right to elect their judges. In June 2023,...

SPLC Urges National Recognition of Historic Community of Royal, Florida

September 21, 2023

ROYAL, Fla. — In a recent opinion , the National Park Service found that the central Florida community of Royal appears to meet the criteria for the National Register of Historic Places. Settled in the 1860s by Freedmen who...

Georgia Educator Appeals Termination Decision by the Cobb County School Board

September 14, 2023

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Today, Georgia educator Katherine Rinderle appealed the Cobb County School Board’s decision last month to terminate her for reading My Shadow is Purple to her fifth grade gifted students at Due West Elementary...

P.A.S.C.O. Coalition Urges DOJ to End Support of Harmful Predictive Policing Program

September 12, 2023

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – In a letter today, the P.A.S.C.O. (People Against the Surveillance of Children and Overpolicing) Coalition asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to end its support of Pasco County’s discriminatory...

Federal Judge Staying Preliminary Injunction Against Anti-Transgender Health Care Ban

September 06, 2023

ATLANTA — A federal judge has stayed a preliminary injunction against Georgia Senate Bill 140 (“SB 140,” or the “Health Care Ban”) pending adjudication of the state’s request for her to reconsider her ruling. “We are disappointed...

Civil Rights Groups Challenge Discriminatory Law Unfairly Impacting Black Children of Unwed U.S. Citizen Fathers

September 05, 2023

WASHINGTON — Civil rights attorneys for Damion Glenroy Davis will present oral arguments before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 7 to end a law that excluded naturalized citizen fathers from passing U.S. citizenship to...

Activate Mississippi Initiative Uses Art and Activism to Expand Voter Engagement

August 30, 2023

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the United States. In 2022, only 32% of the state’s voting population exercised their right to vote. To expand voter education and engagement throughout...

Ivory Dixon, Jr., Released After Over 33 Years of Incarceration

August 29, 2023

LOUISIANA— Decades after being sentenced to life without parole in Louisiana, Ivory Dixon, Jr., has been released from custody. “Ivory is a humble, honest, and hardworking father and grandfather,” said Emily Lubin, staff attorney...

Human Rights Organizations Condemn 11th Circuit Decision to Reinstate Alabama Transgender Health Care Ban

August 21, 2023

Today, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision reversing a federal district court ruling blocking enforcement of Alabama’s law banning medical care for transgender adolescents. The district...

Federal Judge Issues Injunction that Restores Health Care for Georgia Transgender Children

August 21, 2023

ATLANTA —A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction late Sunday halting a provision in Georgia Senate Bill 140 (“SB 140,” the “Health Care Ban,” or the “Ban”) from taking effect while a lawsuit filed by four Georgia families...

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