Author: Southern Center for Human Rights
Protecting Dissent: SCHR Launches First Amendment Lawyer Bridge
We are working to ensure that Georgians who express dissent are protected from criminalization.
READ MORE >SCHR Statement on the Department of Justice Investigation into Conditions at the Fulton County Jail
Mere days after news that 19-year-old Noni Battiste-Kosoko has died in Fulton County custody, the…
READ MORE >AJC Op-Ed: Reducing police violence will make Georgia safer, healthier
A focus on reform, mental and even physical health will have multiple benefits. By Opal…
READ MORE >Southern Center for Human Rights Files Lawsuit Amid the Georgia Public Defender Council’s Refusal to Comply with Open Records Act
On June 5, as part of the Southern Center for Human Rights’ (SCHR) investigation into the Georgia Public Defender Council’s (GPDC) persistent failure to provide lawyers for accused people who cannot afford them, SCHR and Caplan Cobb, LLC, filed a lawsuit under the Georgia Open Records Act against GPDC Director Omotayo Alli due to the agency’s repeated violations of Georgia’s open records laws.
READ MORE >“A death sentence as well:” Deadly Conditions Worsen in GA Prisons and Jails
On April 27, Public Policy Director Tiffany Williams Roberts was featured on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s…
READ MORE >“Fix this Mistake:” Justice for Toforest Johnson
On a Sunday last month, over 400 people filled Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to support our client Toforest Johnson, who has spent the past 25 years on Alabama’s death row.
READ MORE >SCHR Hosts International Human Rights Advocates in Atlanta
On April 26, the United Nations’ International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement (UN EMLER) heard testimony from human rights organizations and people impacted by state violence at Atlanta’s Auburn Avenue Research Library.
READ MORE >Six Takeaways from Phase One of SCHR’s Community Safety & Police Violence Town Hall Series
By Tyler Gay, Microsoft Policy Research Fellow at SCHR Over the past eight months, I’ve…
READ MORE >Legislative Update: Sine Die Edition
The Georgia General Assembly adjourned sine die over midnight on Thursday, March 30, ending the 2023 session….
READ MORE >AJC Op-Ed: Georgia must do right by public defenders, people they serve
By Atteeyah Hollie Anniversary of Supreme Court ruling requiring lawyers be provided for poor defendants lets…
READ MORE >Legislative Update: Day 38
Good afternoon partners, Tomorrow will mark Legislative Day 38. With only two more legislative days…
READ MORE >Statement from Southern Center for Human Rights Regarding the Arrest of Legal Observer
On Sunday, March 5, a legal observer from the National Lawyers Guild was arrested at…
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