December 10, 2020
Montgomery, Ala. — Reporting by NBC News on Wednesday found that 14 organizations designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) or the Anti-Defamation League have received funding from the Paycheck...
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December 09, 2020
Montgomery, Ala. – On Wednesday, the United States Department of Justice sued the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) for the state’s repeated failure to meet its obligations to incarcerated men in Alabama under the Eighth...
December 09, 2020
Montgomery, Ala. – Today, Johnny Roman Garza, a 21-year-old member of a Neo-Nazi group called the Atomwaffen Division, was sentenced to 16 months in prison for threatening a Jewish journalist and conspiring to threaten both...
December 09, 2020
ATLANTA – The following statement responding to today’s Cobb County Elections announcement about the re-opening of general election early vote sites for the January 5 runoff elections, following outreach by SPLC Action Fund and...
December 09, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the House of Representatives 335-78 bipartisan passing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a veto-proof...
December 08, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. – In a 9-8 decision yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied Mississippi state officials’ request for rehearing in Williams v. Reeves after a 3-member panel of the court ruled in April that...
December 02, 2020
Montgomery, Ala. – Alabama has just over a month to spend about $850 million in coronavirus relief funds allocated to the state by Congress. If that money is not spent by Dec. 30, it will return to the U.S. Treasury. Last week,...
November 30, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces an additional investment of over $2 million across 10 organizations that are leading voter mobilization efforts in Georgia and Louisiana as part of its...
November 24, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – In a settlement announced today, the city of Montgomery has agreed that it will immediately stop arresting or ticketing people who panhandle. The settlement serves as a resolution to a lawsuit filed in February...
November 23, 2020
WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden today announced that he will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas, who served as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS...
November 23, 2020
Amnesty International USA, the Association of Pro Bono Counsel, Refugees International, and a group of immigration law professors have filed amicus briefs in a case challenging the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP),...
November 23, 2020
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – On Tuesday, November 17, four police officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) shot more than 30 rounds into Devon Gregory’s vehicle during a traffic stop in Jacksonville. The medical coroner...
November 23, 2020
ATLANTA, Ga. – Today, Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, sued the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) for the second time for its...
November 23, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Alabama - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit today against Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ron Abernathy for not complying with the Alabama Open Records Act. Nearly four months after SPLC requested...
November 23, 2020
JACKSON, Mississippi - Since the start of the COVID-19 epidemic in March, food insecurity and child care have been major issues during this pandemic. A new state survey of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients...
November 19, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Despite thousands of people in Alabama's prisons being eligible for parole and awaiting a hearing , the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles denies even the best candidates. “ Freedom Denied ” – a new...
November 16, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is calling on the federal government to mandate hate crime data collection at all levels of government after a new report released today by the Federal Bureau of...
November 09, 2020
NEW ORLEANS – On Thursday, November 5, immigrant rights organizations filed a new multi-individual Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) complaint with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Civil Rights and Civil...
November 07, 2020
Montgomery, Ala. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang released the following statement as news outlets called the state of Pennsylvania for Joe Biden, giving him 273 electoral college votes to push him...
November 05, 2020
ATLANTA – The following statement is by Poy Winichakul, staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “For voters who cast provisional ballots on Tuesday, they have one day remaining to ensure those ballots are counted in...
November 04, 2020
ATLANTA – The following statement is from Poy Winichakul, staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “As we patiently await results in races up and down the ballot in Georgia, we’re urging voters who submitted ballots...
November 04, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi voters who voted by absentee ballot have until Friday, Nov. 13 to fix any signature match issues. In August, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Dechert LLP...
November 04, 2020
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia regarding whether private foster care agencies that hold public government contracts can ignore anti-discrimination...
November 04, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. – With a majority of ballots counted, Mississippi voters are projected to overwhelmingly pass Ballot Measures 2 and 3, reforming how statewide elections are won and approving a new state flag, respectively. The...
November 04, 2020
Tallahassee, Fla. -- On Tuesday millions of Florida voters went to the polls and approved a constitutional amendment that will raise the minimum wage in Florida to $15 an hour. The SPLC Action Fund supported efforts to raise the...
