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Judge Finds NYPD Routinely Makes Unconstitutional Street Stops Outside Clean Halls Buildings Across the Bronx
The New York Civil Liberties Union is an Atlantic grantee through the Reconciliation & Human Rights programme in the United States. January 8, 2013 — The NYPD has a pattern and practice of illegally stopping innocent people in public areas outside thousands of private apartment buildings…
Author: New York Civil Liberties Union
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Analysis Finds Dramatic Spike in NYC Suspensions: Black Children and Students with Special Needs Most Affected
The number of student suspensions in New York City public schools spiked dramatically over the past decade while the length of suspensions grew longer – a phenomenon disproportionally affecting black students and students with disabilities, according to a report released today by the New York…
Author: New York Civil Liberties Union
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Suit Over Legal Aid Advances in New York
By William Glaberson. New York’s highest court ruled Thursday that a broad class-action suit challenging the state’s system of providing public defenders can move forward because there are enough signs that the system is failing poor people. The 4-to-3 ruling by the State Court of…
Author: The New York Times
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De Blasio Administration Announces New School Climate Initiatives to Make NYC Schools Safer, Fairer and More Transparent
Proposed updates to the discipline code include an end to suspensions for students in grades K-2 For the first time, NYPD releases expanded school safety data on school-based arrests, summonses and handcuffing New scanning policy establishes official process based on data with NYPD oversight for…
Author: The City of New York
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Judge Rules NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Practices Unconstitutional, Racially Discriminatory
In a historic ruling on 12 August 2013, a federal judge found the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices — which entail temporarily detaining people on the street, questioning them, and possibly also frisking or searching them — unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. This legal victory…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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NYC's Action on School Discipline Moves Closer to Just Education
By Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor, Equity Initiatives & Human Capital Development, The Atlantic Philanthropies In recent years, thousands of New York City school children have been disciplined through exclusion from school, disengaging them from learning and increasing the likelihood they will get caught up…
Author: Philanthropy New York
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A Bad Ruling on Stop-and-Frisk
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was unwise to put a stay on the necessary remedies Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan ordered in August in response to the civil rights violations of New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy.And it overreached in taking…
Author: The New York Times
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City Will Require Police to Report on School Arrests
Originally Published: 20 December 2010 By NOAH ROSENBERG The New York City Council voted on Monday to require the Police and Education Departments to produce regular reports on arrests, summonses and suspensions of public school students, a victory for civil liberties advocates who say that the school police have…
Author: The New York Times
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Obama Urges Fix to ‘Broken’ Immigration System
By Peter Baker. WASHINGTON — President Obama pressed Congress on Thursday to adopt a sweeping plan to fix a “fundamentally broken” immigration system, taking on a volatile issue that has inflamed passions in a weak economy heading into the fall midterm campaign. In his first…
Author: The New York Times
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Appoints Gara LaMarche New Chief Executive Officer
For further information please contact:Kate Bullinger in New York at +212 916 7302Colin McCrea in Dublin at +353 1 799 5912 THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES APPOINTS GARA LAMARCHE NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Philanthropy Executive Brings Record of Innovative Leadership to an Organisation Committed to Social Change…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies