The recent surge of families migrating to the United States has cast a spotlight on the broken immigration system. Under current U.S. immigration laws and policies, immigrants in Northern California …

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The Business Leaders Summit on Reentry was convened by The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCR) and the National Employment Law Project (NELP) to …

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Imagine going to the bank only to discover that your account is frozen because the government has branded you a “terrorist.” The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the …

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The social justice sector is at a critical inflection point, a moment in which many of its fundamental assumptions and old ways of operating are being challenged. Leadership is transferring …

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Highlighting testimony from the 2014 California voting rights hearing sponsored by the National Commission on Voting Rights, Protecting Equal Access in a Diverse Democracy: Voting Rights in the Golden State, outlines …

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The strength of our democracy is measured by the ability of citizens to vote. The right to vote should not be contingent on a citizen’s race, ethnicity, national origin, English-language proficiency, disability, …

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The strength of our democracy is measured by the ability of citizens to vote. The right to vote should not be contingent on a citizen’s race, ethnicity, national origin, English-language proficiency, disability, …

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Voting rights barriers and discrimination still persist in California today. In the new report, Voting Rights Barriers and Discrimination in Twenty-First Century California: 2000-2013, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights …

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This database is modeled after the one created by Ellen Katz, et al., for Documenting Discrimination in Voting: Judicial Findings Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Since 1982, …

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