Author: Southern Center for Human Rights
Southern Center for Human Rights Hosts Pain & Power Part II on February 22, 2024
Please join the Southern Center for Human Rights on February 22, 2024 at the Auburn Avenue Research Library for Pain and Power Part II.
READ MORE >SCHR Statement on Senate Bill 63
On the first day of Black History Month, the Georgia State Senate passed SB 63, which is an unconstitutional abridgment of the right to free speech, the presumption of innocence and the prohibition against unreasonable bail.
READ MORE >Georgia Senate Passes Regressive Bill Targeting Cash Bail and Community Support
On February 1, 2024, the Georgia Senate passed Senate Bill 63. This bill, sponsored by Senator Randy Robertson, raises numerous concerns at the Southern Center and among our organizational partners for its potential to negatively impact criminal legal reform efforts throughout Georgia, specifically within the City of Atlanta and Fulton County.
READ MORE >Our 2024 Georgia Legislative Priorities
The Southern Center for Human Rights is committed to decriminalizing race and poverty in America’s Deep South and our policy priorities this session reflect that commitment. Read on to learn about our policy priorities, advocacy tools and community advocacy days.
READ MORE >Sheriff Patrick Labat Found In Breach of Settlement Agreement in South Fulton Jail Lawsuit
On Wednesday, January 3, 2024, a federal magistrate judged issued an order declaring Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat in “material breach” of our 2022 settlement agreement on behalf of women with serious mental illness suffering under inhumane conditions of solitary confinement.
READ MORE >Southern Center for Human Rights First Amendment Lawyer Bridge Project Pairs 40+ Clients in the Fulton County “Cop City” RICO Indictment
The First Amendment Lawyer Bridge (“The Bridge”) is the formalized lawyer pairing project housed at SCHR that provides compensation to attorneys representing people arrested while exercising their First Amendment rights.
READ MORE >Southern Center’s Kristen Samuels Presented with Advancing Real Change’s Emerging Leader Award
SCHR Senior Investigator Kristen Samuels was recently honored by Advancing Real Change, Inc. (ARC) with its Emerging Leader Award.
READ MORE >UN Human Rights Review to Include Repression of Stop Cop City; Rev. Keyanna Jones to Represent in Geneva
Ahead of a review of the United States government by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the movement to Stop Cop City makes an appeal to the world claiming that the use of Domestic Terrorism and RICO statutes against activists, as well as the police killing of Manuel Paez “Tortuguita” Terán, constitute human rights violations under international law.
READ MORE >Civil Rights Groups Demand Atlanta City and Law Department Officials to Cease and Desist Publication of Signed Cop City Referendum Petitions with Unredacted Names
The Legal Defense Fund, the Southern Center for Human Rights, and the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter demanding that Atlanta Municipal and Law Department officials to cease and desist the publication of signed referendum petitions with unredacted names, signatures, and other personal information.
READ MORE >Southern Center for Human Rights and Color Of Change Urge Fulton County Commissioners Against Transferring People Incarcerated in the Fulton County Jail to Facilities Outside Metro Atlanta
On Monday, September 18, 2023, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) and Color Of Change (COC) sent a letter to Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Rob Pitts, urging the Chairman to reconsider his proposal to transfer people incarcerated in the Fulton County Jail to facilities outside of Metro Atlanta.
READ MORE >SCHR Statement on Cop City RICO Indictment
We are aware of Fulton County Indictment 23SC189192, which relates to Stop Cop City protests….
READ MORE >Shared Purpose, Unwavering Determination: Statement on the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington
On this 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, we reflect on the indelible impact of the historic event on civil rights and social justice.
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