NEW YORK CITY – Today, the City removed and demolished unhoused individuals’ shelters and belongings near Tompkins Square Park which resulted in several arrests. The NYCLU had monitors present.
NEW YORK - Today, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Civil Rights Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law filed a federal lawsuit challenging the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s (DOCCS’) blanket censorship of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison
NEW YORK CITY – Ahead of today’s City Council oversight hearing on Mayor Adams’s blueprint to end gun violence, New York Civil Liberties Union senior policy counsel Michael Sisitzky issued the following statement:
BROOME COUNTY –Makyyla Holland (she/her/hers), a 23-year-old transgender Broome County resident, filed suit today against Broome County, the Broome County’s Sheriff and officials at Broome County Jail seeking redress for violence, threats to her safety, denial of medical care, and discrimination inf
NEW YORK CITY - The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and The Bronx Defenders today announced a settlement in Velesaca v. Decker, their 2020 lawsuit challenging Immigration and Customs Enforcements’ (ICE’s) secret practice of automatically and indefinitely incarcerating virtually all of the tho
NEW YORK –The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of New York against Jefferson County over its discriminatory and life-endangering policy of denying treatment to people with opioid use disorder.