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Ending Business as Usual: The Need for Alabama Civil Asset Forfeiture Data Transparency
By Delvin Davis | SPLC Senior Policy Analyst Introduction Alabama residents Greg and Teresa Almond lost their home, business and reputation, and were forced to live in a utility shed without running water, after law enforcement raided their home over $50 worth of marijuana that was allegedly not even theirs — all stemming from the…
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Scott, et al., v. Louisiana State Police, et al.
Amid evictions of unhoused people from encampments in public spaces in New Orleans, the Southern Poverty Law Center joined a case to protect unhoused people from this effort by state authorities. Ahead of major events held at the Caesars Superdome in October and November 2024, the Louisiana State Police and the state’s Department of Wildlife…
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Barnes v. Felix
After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit dismissed a case where a Texas county constable fatally shot an unarmed Black man, and after the man’s family appealed that dismissal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed an amicus brief in support of the man’s family. The amicus brief…
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Letter in opposition to the nomination of Pamela Bondi to be US Attorney General
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How Meta’s policy updates could encourage hate and threaten democracy
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced significant changes to how the company will moderate its social media content. The changes could have far-reaching and dire effects for democracy and for people who have historically been targeted by online hate, experts and advocates say. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, revised its…
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Letter to Senators Opposing Pete Hegseth Confirmation as Secretary of Defense
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Annual Report
Even in the most hostile climates, the Southern Poverty Law Center defended people’s rights.
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Letter to Senators urging careful evaluation of President-elect Trump’s administrative nominees
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Advocates fight for voting rights of formerly incarcerated people in Mississippi
Editor’s note: This story is presented as a tribute to the life of Cynetra Freeman and the work of the organization she founded, the Mississippi Center for Reentry, a Southern Poverty Law Center Vote Your Voice grant recipient. Freeman died late last year, after the SPLC interviewed her for this story. The SPLC extends its…
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Tour highlights race-based poverty and inequity across Mississippi Delta region
Interstate highways have dramatically compressed parts of the United States. But when you get off the big federal roadways, the ground unfurls for miles in every direction. Nowhere is that truer than driving into the Mississippi Delta. The green mile markers and clip-clop of expansion joints give way to huge expanses of farmland, the occasional…
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