News & Commentary

The state of California just made it clear: Face recognition surveillance isn’t inevitable. We can — and should — fight hard to protect our communities from this dystopian technology.

The Constitution protects passengers deplaning domestic flights just as it protects people on the street or in a car.

Now that was exactly what was happening, except it was the police accusing him of something he didn’t do. Those men are supposed to protect him, not falsely accuse him or beat him up.

Only a collective group of fools would be professionally and ethically comfortable sustaining a stagnant system of mass incarceration.

The 2019 Florida Legislative Session was the most dangerous and threatening to Floridians’ civil liberties and civil rights in over a decade.

Study after study confirms that deploying surveillance and police in schools hurts kids, especially students of color and with disabilities.

U.S. citizens cannot be deported or held by immigration authorities. And yet we know that federal agents working for U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, or ICE, have been indiscriminately targeting them on a regular basis. SB 168 would lead to countless U.S. citizens being held for ICE.

Politicians and high-profile gun groups like the NRA routinely rally to support gun owners and the Second Amendment. But does this include all gun owners? The silence is deafening when it comes to people of color and their gun rights.

Four years after the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Americans are grappling with issues of race and disparity on the frankest terms since the civil rights movement of the 1960s.