Courts often impose these fees without any consideration of a person’s ability to pay, so individuals who cannot afford to pay their original fines are
SJLF Senior Attorney Claire Simonich (along with assistance from SJLF fellows Alyssa Martinez and Amelia Piazza) presented the results and “lessons learned” to a range
The amicus brief was filed in the California Fourth District Court of Appeals, Division Three. OCDNA contains nearly 200,000 individual DNA profiles, with an additional
Howard joins a consortium of schools who have partnered with SJLF, including Columbia, Northwestern, Stanford, UCLA and Yale law schools. “This collaboration is a natural
The amicus brief was filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of SJLF’s client and partner, Dignity and Power Now, and in
The policy requires family and friends of incarcerated people to send all paper mail and photos to a Smart Communications facility in Florida, where the
HB 1 is but one of a series of bills in Florida that aims to restrict the power of cities and counties to make policy
On May 19, 2022, Social Justice Legal Foundation (SJLF) and ACLU of Louisiana sued, on behalf of Alexander Clark, the Sheriff of Livingston Parish, the
Her complaint asserts that the officers also violated state law by intentionally subjecting Ms. Mills to emotional torment and invading her privacy. The complaint further
Ms. Thomas’s lawsuit describes systemic harassment and assaults of Ms. Thomas by East Jefferson Levee District Police in a public park in Kenner, LA over
