(Atlanta, GA) -- Today, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of two men who were beaten while handcuffed by officers employed at Georgia State Prison.
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19th April 2018
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10th April 2018
(Columbus, GA ) - Yesterday, a unique group of former prosecutors, a former judge, and a civil rights attorney filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Johnny Lee Gates, whose 1977 murder conviction has been called into question by new evi
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19th March 2018
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 19th, 2018
Contact: Hannah Riley, SCHR (404-688-1202, ext. 220; [email protected])
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8th January 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2018
Media Contacts:
Aaron Littman, Southern Center for Human Rights, (404) 688 1202, [email protected]
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13th December 2017
(ATLANTA) On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, two Atlanta-based activists who have long been distributing food to the homeless in public parks were cited for allegedly violating a county ordinance requiring a permit to distribute food. Available resources to feed the homeless are especially scarce on weekends, when shelters are often full. The lack of available space makes street feeding the simplest and most effective way to get food to homeless people in Atlanta.
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14th November 2017
Atlanta, GA -- A proposed multimillion dollar class settlement has been reached in K.A., et al. v.
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13th November 2017
(Atlanta, GA) – On Friday, November 10, 2017, two civil rights organizations, Civil Rights Corps (CRC) and the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR),
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12th October 2017
Columbus, GA—Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia approved a final class action settlement in Harrison v. Consolidated Government of Columbus, Georgia, et al., a case in which plaintiff Cleopatra Harrison challenged the imposition of “victim fees” on survivors of domestic violence. As a result of the lawsuit, the Columbus Recorder’s Court will no longer charge victim fees, and people who paid such fees will receive restitution and compensation. Plaintiffs were represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and Columbus attorney, Mark Post.
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26th July 2017
Atlanta, GA – Today, a civil rights lawsuit was filed against Sentinel Offender Services (“Sentinel”), a private probation company, on behalf of people in Atlanta who were forced by Sentinel to pay illegal fees while on “pay-only” probation for traffic violations. The lawsuit, brought by the Southern Center for Human Rights and Caplan Cobb LLP, seeks the return of money that Sentinel illegally collected from people sentenced to “pay-only” probation by the Atlanta Municipal Court.
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30th June 2017
SCHR is challenging extremely long sentences for low-level drug offenses throughout Georgia.
