Publications
- May 21, 2013 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Best Practice Standards: The Proper Use of Criminal Records in Hiring The Best Practice Standards are designed to help employers evaluate applicants with criminal records by applying concrete, practical procedures, based on the recommendations from the EEOC. Following them will help employers make hiring decisions that will maximize productivity and minimize the risk of liability.
- May 08, 2013 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Statement Submitted to the Illinois State Senate Executive Committee on H.B. 105 H.B. 105 is a positive step towards enabling students in Illinois to exercise their right to vote, and we support such efforts so that all eligible Americans can more easily participate in the electoral process.
- March 08, 2013 | from Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing at HUD: A First Term Report Card This is the second installment of a two-part review of HUD’s efforts to implement its obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. Last month, the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) released a review of HUD housing programs, titled “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing at HUD: A First Term Report Card (Part I: HUD Housing Programs).” The present report, produced by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The National Fair Housing Alliance, and PRRAC, takes the next step and looks at HUD’s record of enforcement of the affirmatively furthering obligation among state and local governments (and public housing agencies) receiving HUD funds.
- February 22, 2013 | from Creating Balance in the Locations of LIHTC Developments A new report examines the role of state "qualified allocation plans" in influencing the location of new affordable housing tax credit developments in high opportunity communities.
- February 13, 2013 | from Election Protection The 2012 Election Protection Report: Our Broken Voting and How to Repair It Election Protection provides a snapshot of the endemic problems that continue to plague American elections and sets the stage for federal and state officials to finally address the enduring difficulties that infect the voting process of this country.
- January 15, 2013 | from Ongoing Impact of Fraud Against Distressed Homeowners 51+ Highlighted by LMSPN Lawyers' Committee's National Loan Modification Scan Database reported that seniors were among hardest hit by distressed homeowner fraud.
- January 14, 2013 | from “Lessons from Election Day 2012: Examining the Need for Election Reform” Written Testimony Today, Tanya Clay House, Public Policy Director provided a statement at a voting rights forum in Northern Virginia. Her statement, which outlined some of the challenges voters faced in Virginia and nationwide, was supplemented with the recently released 2012 Preliminary Election Protection Report.
- December 10, 2012 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law "Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline" Written Testimony In order to combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline and ensure equal educational opportunities for all children, the Lawyers’ Committee advocates that federal education reform do the following: (1) permit the use of ESEA Title I funds to implement school-wide positive behavior supports; (2) prohibit ESEA funding for exclusionary discipline measures; and (3) improve accountability by mandating inclusion of school discipline data in ESEA state Report Cards.
- October 05, 2012 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Early Voting Patterns by Race in Cuyahoga County, Ohio: A Statistical Analysis of the 2008 General Election Several state legislatures recently have passed laws to scale back their early voting operations. Such efforts have been criticized by civil rights advocates and others who contend that minorities have utilized various forms of early voting at disproportionately high rates relative to whites, and that early voting reductions will tend to discourage minority electoral participation.
- August 17, 2012 | from 2011 Form 990
