Under Florida’s Baker Act, thousands of children each year are taken from their classrooms and transported – handcuffed and in the back of police cars – to psychiatric facilities without their parents’ input or consent and sometimes over their objections. There, they can be held for up to 72...
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June 22, 2021
ATLANTA -- Citing repeated failures to follow Georgia and federal law governing the payment and processing of unemployment insurance benefits claims, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Atlanta-based law firm Bondurant,...
June 21, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released new data amending the number of pedestals listed as “removed” in its Whose Heritage? report, which tracks symbols of the Confederacy across the United...
Hatewatch
Forty-year-old James Kreider allegedly provided security assistance to the white nationalist movement for years, helping extremists mask their identities and plan clandestine meetups, according to three different sources who spoke to Hatewatch.
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June 17, 2021
WASHINGTON - A new report released today by Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch and the Center for Media and Democracy reveals big money donors pumped $4.3 million into white nationalist group VDARE in the lead up to...
Hatewatch
Donors gave the prominent white nationalist hate group VDARE $4.3 million in 2019, over eight times more than the year before, according to tax records the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) obtained and shared with Hatewatch.
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June 17, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center today released Protecting Immigrant Students’ Rights to a Public Education , a guide explaining the legal framework and rights of immigrant children and families to enroll and...
June 17, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today marks the sixth anniversary of the Charleston Church massacre. The following statement is from SPLC Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “Today is the sixth anniversary of the Charleston Church massacre and we...
