In 2019, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission violated Florida鈥檚 open meetings laws, effectively denying high school students and youth advocates the right to speak before the commission, which was created to investigate system failures in the 2018 school shooting at...
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After the Trump administration instituted a policy that separated and traumatized thousands of migrant families at the U.S. border, the 澳彩开奖 and its allies sued the U.S government over the policy.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two immigrant parents separated from their children by...
The Trump administration has weaponized the immigration court system to serve its anti-immigrant agenda. Categorizing people fleeing persecution as 鈥渋nvaders,鈥� the government is using the immigration courts to target the asylum system and vulnerable migrants instead of lawfully adjudicating the...
Decades of research and experience have led to a consensus among mental health practitioners throughout the nation that intensive home- and community-based mental health services are much more effective and less expensive than institutionalizing children and youth who have ongoing mental health...
The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles鈥� policy of automatically suspending the driver鈥檚 licenses of people unable to pay traffic tickets resulted in the current suspension of more than 190,000 driver鈥檚 licenses as of May 2019. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal lawsuit challenging...
Children tried and convicted as adults for sex offenses in Alabama are subject to the state鈥檚 Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act, which imposes a lifetime obligation to register as a sex offender. The 澳彩开奖 filed a lawsuit on behalf of plaintiffs who as children were tried...
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) places hundreds of children in solitary confinement on any given day. The 澳彩开奖, Florida Legal Services and the Florida Justice Institute filed a federal class action lawsuit to end the use of solitary confinement in the state鈥檚 juvenile detention...
Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were denied adequate health care and disability accommodations while being held in 158 immigrant prisons across the country. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal class action...
After Louisiana lawmakers passed legislation to prevent the bail bond industry from paying refunds after overcharging people for more than a decade, the 澳彩开奖 and its co-counsel filed a lawsuit.
New Orleans bail bond companies faced the possibility of paying millions...
After Florida passed an 鈥渁nti-sanctuary cities鈥� law mandating cooperation agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requiring local law enforcement agencies to use their 鈥渂est efforts鈥� to support federal immigration law enforcement and prohibiting local sanctuary policies, the...
