We are deeply disturbed by the killings of 37 year old Alton Sterling and 32 year old Philando Castile, both Black men fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, LA, and St. Paul, MN, in the span of 48 hours.
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8th July 2016
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7th June 2016
A Grantville Municipal Court judge on Tuesday canceled the $1,590 fine she had levied against a 52-year-old woman for not putting a decal on her l
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3rd June 2016
Yale Law School’s Commencement took place Monday, May 23, 2016. SCHR's President and Senior Counsel Stephen Bright addressed the class of 2016.
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2nd June 2016
Go read the story by my colleague Rhonda Cook about the travails of Linda Ford, a Coweta County resident who fo
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23rd May 2016
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the conviction and death sentence of Timothy Foster in a 7-1 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts. The Court held ruling that Georgia prosecutors discriminated in striking all of the African American prospective jurors to get an all-white jury in Mr. Foster’s 1987 capital trial. The following is a statement from Stephen Bright, counsel of record for Petitioner and President of Southern Center for Human Rights.
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27th April 2016
We enthusiastically support the Governor’s signing of SB367, a criminal justice reform bill that will positively impact thousands of Georgians.
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4th April 2016
STATESBORO, GEORGIA – Today, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) and Hunton & Williams LLP, filed Davison v.
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29th March 2016
For the 16th year in a row, SCHR was a daily presence at the Georgia General Assembly. There were major victories this year, including the comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform Bill, an increased budget for Georgia’s public defender system, and reforms on grand jury procedures in police use of force cases. There were setbacks, the gutting of Georgia’s judicial watchdog agency. We helped stop several dangerous pieces of legislation, including a bill that would have mandated collection of DNA from every person arrested for “certain serious felonies” before their innocence or guilt was determined.
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15th March 2016
The Southern Center for Human Rights applauds the latest step by the Department of Justice to address inequality in the nation’s busiest courts.
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11th March 2016
Cuts totaling $13.5 million to Fulton County’s justice agencies have created a crisis as they brace for the fallout from the elimination of Fulton Pretrial Services.
