April 14, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Saturday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed Senate Bill 183 and House Bill 1537 into law allowing for the removal, relocation, or contextualization of Confederate monuments starting July 1, 2020. The...
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April 14, 2020
BATON ROUGE – Incarcerated people who test positive for COVID-19 in prisons and jails in around the state of Louisiana are being transferred to the Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly called Angola) to be housed in Camp J...
April 13, 2020
MIAMI – Today, a coalition of organizations filed a federal class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Miami Division seeking the immediate release of all individuals in the custody of...
April 10, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta issued the following statement after the denial of their request for a temporary restraining order seeking the immediate...
April 10, 2020
Montgomery, Alabama -- Earlier this week SPLC Action Fund joined multiple civil rights organizations in demanding that state and local governments in the South act immediately to protect incarcerated adults and juveniles, as well...
April 09, 2020
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Yesterday evening, the Tallahassee City Commission passed its conversion therapy ordinance, joining the growing list of state and local governments to support bans. The following statement is from Scott McCoy...
April 09, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Meredith Stewart, senior supervising attorney with the Immigrant Justice Project , on the new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidance...
April 08, 2020
Tallahassee, FL -- In the last week incarcerated people have begun to test positive for COVID-19 in Florida’s jails and prisons. The main focus has been on Broward County, with one column claiming the Broward County Jail was a “...
April 07, 2020
TENNESSEE – Parents and community members in Shelby and Davidson Counties who are challenging the constitutionality of the Tennessee Education Savings Account (ESA) voucher law filed a motion Friday asking the Chancery Court for...
April 06, 2020
Montgomery, Alabama -- Once again, Alabama is confronted with a life-threatening crisis in its prison system. And once again – according to recent reporting – the state has prioritized warehousing thousands of our community...
April 03, 2020
ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, with pro bono assistance from the law firm of Kilpatrick Townsend, filed a lawsuit today seeking the immediate release of people held...
April 03, 2020
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Innovation Law Lab (Law Lab), Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. and Santa Fe Dreamers Project...
April 03, 2020
MISSISSIPPI – A lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on behalf of families impacted by Mississippi’s failure to provide a “uniform system of free public schools” can move forward, the U.S. Court of Appeals...
March 31, 2020
WASHINGTON – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the ACLU of Louisiana filed an emergency motion for preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking the immediate release of...
March 31, 2020
Late yesterday evening, Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed into law two bills that target transgender people. HB 500 discriminates against transgender student athletes by prohibiting them from participating in sports, and HB 509 bars...
March 30, 2020
allahassee, FL -- Last week it was reported that seven Florida Department of Corrections employees who work at seven different corrections facilities have tested positive for COVID-19. Members of the Florida Campaign for Criminal...
March 28, 2020
MONTGOMERY — Southern Poverty Law Center Interim President and CEO Karen Baynes-Dunning issued the following statement mourning the death of civil rights movement leader Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, 98: “Today we pause to remember and...
March 27, 2020
WASHINGTON – The Southern Poverty Law Center, Innovation Law Lab, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. and Santa Fe Dreamers Project, with the pro bono...
March 27, 2020
WASHINGTON – SPLC Action Fund Interim President and CEO Karen Baynes-Dunning issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the CARES Act, a $2 trillion economic stimulus bill Friday to address the...
March 26, 2020
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last night passed a $2 trillion economic stimulus bill to address the global COVID-19 pandemic that has upended the social and economic lives of millions of Americans. While the bill provides...
March 25, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement in response to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey’s comments on a call to press yesterday regarding no-excuse absentee balloting , is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern...
March 25, 2020
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Early this morning, a group of civil rights legal organizations and their pro bono law firm partners filed an emergency application for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Central...
March 24, 2020
The following statement is from Laura Rivera, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative , in response to the first positive COVID-19 test of an individual in Immigration and Customs...
March 23, 2020
Tallahassee, Fla. – Today, a coalition of groups committed to defending Florida’s democratic process submitted a letter to Governor Ron DeSantis urging a veto of SB 1794 , which would impose significant, new hurdles to get...
March 23, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), alongside the American Immigration Council, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and over 100 other organizations,...
