Press Releases
about Criminal Law Reform
Sep 26, 2016
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û: Charlotte Police Must Release All Footage of Keith Lamont Scott Shooting; Disclosed Videos Raise Many Questions
CHARLOTTE – The ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û (ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û) of North Carolina joins those calling on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) to publicly release all body and...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Privacy & Technology
Sep 26, 2016
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û and Massachusetts Public Defenders Ask Court to Vacate 24,000 Unresolved Dookhan Cases
Almost five years after Hinton drug lab scandal, thousands await justice
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Smart Justice
Sep 22, 2016
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û of Oklahoma Responds to Charges Against Tulsa Officer Involved in Killing of Terence Crutcher
OKLAHOMA CITY – In response to the Tulsa County District Attorney’s announcement of the charge of manslaughter in the first degree against Officer Betty Shelby, the American Ci...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Sep 21, 2016
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û Calls on Charlotte Police to Release Video Footage of Keith Lamont Scott Shooting
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û (ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û) of North Carolina today called on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department to release any body or dash cam footage ...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Sep 20, 2016
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û of Oklahoma Calls for Criminal Charges Against Tulsa Police Officers in Murder of Terence Crutcher
OKLAHOMA CITY — In response to the release of two videos depicting the murder of Terence Crutcher (seen here via The Tulsa World website), an unarmed Black Tulsan whose car had b...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Aug 10, 2016
Department of Justice findings regarding the Baltimore City Police Department
"The Department of Justice's findings on the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) document in devastating detail what Baltimoreans have decried for years: Baltimore's Black residents ...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Racial Justice
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