FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, January 20, 2023 CONTACT: Saima Akhtar, National Center for Law and Economic Justice | akhtar@nclej.org, 646-558-6152 Nick Feronti, Northern Justice Project | nferonti@njp-law.com, 907-308-3395 UPDATE JANUARY 25, 2023 Following the filing of our lawsuit last…
Read More →This article was originally published in The Buffalo News. Read it here. As of Jan. 2, 2023, at least 39 people in Erie County, the majority of whom are Black, have lost their lives in the deadliest blizzard…
Read More →Geoff Kelly and InvestigativePost continue to cover the problem of discriminatory policing in Buffalo. Read the full article. The U.S. Justice Department has investigated more than 80 problem-plagued police departments and correctional facilities over the past 25 years…
Read More →By Claudia Wilner, Director of Litigation and Advocacy 11 million people across the U.S. are prohibited from driving because they can’t afford to pay fines and fees. Most of those drivers are people of color. In Oregon, Black…
Read More →By Sara Lunden, Columbia Law School Public Interest Fellow, & Jordan Berger, Skadden Fellow On Tuesday, November 29, New York City Mayor Eric Adams directed NYPD, FDNY-EMS, and mobile crisis teams to increase the use of involuntary transport…
Read More →NCLEJ joined more than 330 immigration groups and other rights organizations and signed onto a letter calling on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to release promised guidance bolstering protections for migrant workers combating workplace abuses. The action was covered in…
Read More →The Buffalo News editorial board condemned the widespread use racial epithets within the BPD and leadership’s failure to investigate or train officers on this bias. Read the article here. Reports that racist language has been routinely used –…
Read More →Contact: Carmela Huang, National Center for Law and Economic Justice | huang@nclej.org New York, NY — Today, National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ), filed a “friend of the court” brief with the United States Court of…
Read More →Jim Heaney of Investigative Post reports on toxic culture permeating the Buffalo Police Department described, under oath, by police themselves in NCLEJ litigation depositions. Read full article. Racist talk. A lack of training, supervision and accountability. Byron Brown…
Read More →Charlie Specht of The Buffalo News reported on Buffalo police’s regularly use racial slurs when referring to Black members of the public revealed in NCLEJ’s litigation. Read the full article. Buffalo police regularly use racial slurs when referring…
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