“Illinois is ahead of the curve when it comes to voter access, but we should not overlook our history of disenfranchising communities of color and low-income voters, and the vestiges of that era that unfortunately still occur every election,” said Gandhi. “Our Election Protection attorneys are here as resource for all Illinois voters facing barriers to the ballot.”
Read MoreStudents, educators, and policy makers throughout the state will share information, successes, and challenges in reducing suspensions and expulsions that have disproportionately targeted students of color.
Read MoreThe complaint asks the court to declare the Cook County Assessor’s assessment system unlawful, and to order Berrios’ office to adopt and implement a fair, accurate, transparent, lawful, and nondiscriminatory system.
Read MoreResponding to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s rushed appointment of former Deputy Mayor Andrea Zopp to the Chicago Police Board, a coalition of leading police reform advocates are calling on the City Council’s Public Safety Committee to delay its vote for Friday (scheduled with only two days’ notice) until the public has had time to weigh in.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, October 10, a district court judge awarded former United States Postal Service employee Anthony Sansone $828,744 in lost wages for discrimination he faced from USPS beginning in 2011.
Read MoreIn a lawsuit filed yesterday with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois a Black family represented by Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Schiff Hardin LLP is alleging that school administrators acted with deliberate indifference to racial harassment and deprived their daughter of her right to an education.
Read MoreUsing data collected from a nonpartisan voting rights hotline in Illinois, Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Moment Design today released an interactive report detailing more than 1,000 barriers experienced by Illinois voters during the 2016 general election.
Read MoreAllegra Cira Fischer, Staff Attorney for The Law Project of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, will explain what a CBA is and why a legally enforceable contract can protect local residents from displacement and exploitation.
Read More"CBAs have proven to be an effective tool to democratize and spread the benefits of economic development to the entire community, and that’s why we will continue to advocate for this agreement.”
Read MoreThe Reid Technique training is based on techniques used by law enforcement on adults held in police custody, a problematic method inappropriate for use on school-age children and particularly juveniles with mental health diagnoses or other impairments
Read MoreThe decision comes down in a case first filed by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in 2015 on behalf of Wisconsin plaintiffs suing state election officials over the state assembly district plan that Republicans drew in 2011, a map drawn specifically to disenfranchise Democratic voters.
Read MoreThis ruling will give the organization the opportunity to provide affordable housing for clients in their Safe Haven program, and open the door for similar organizations in Lake County to provide housing for low income people.
Read MoreLeading the local team for Election Protection, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition, CLC trained more than 300 legal volunteers who answered over 1000 calls to the Chicago call center of the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline and monitored hundreds of polling places throughout Chicago and suburban counties.
Read MoreMore than 300 legal volunteers have been trained to monitor polling places in Chicago and the surrounding counties, and to staff the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline.
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