by Press | Jan 28, 2016 | Newsclips
Auburn, in Auburn, Ala., is one of 17 universities in the South that include broad questions on their admissions applications about any contact with the legal system or the police that applicants might have had — even an arrest, with no conviction — according to the...
by Press | Dec 29, 2015 | Newsclips
In 2014 we came out with a lot of energy,” said James Gilmore, a public policy analyst with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and a member of the Civil rights coalition on Police Reform. “While we went into 2015 hoping for a lot of progress and...
by Press | Dec 24, 2015 | Newsclips
Hiring collection agencies enables companies and the state to profit from people who genuinely cannot afford to pay, said Hallie Ryan, an attorney with the nonprofit Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which focuses on similar issues. While Ryan said...
by Press | Dec 21, 2015 | Newsclips
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — An hour’s drive east of New York City, the skyline quiets and a pristine town appears, as if out of a postcard. The Village of Garden City, in Nassau County, Long Island, is a well-heeled bedroom community of some 23,000 residents. According...
by Press | Dec 20, 2015 | Newsclips
The black, white and Hispanic craftsmen toil amid the bones of New York City’s unfinished office towers, threading air-conditioning ducts through ragged walls and ceilings, guiding the gleaming metal tubes from one set of hands to another. Their union, Local 28...
