The City of Oakland announced its partnership with the 12 Million Calls Initiative, a nationwide effort led by the Policing Project at NYU School of Law to help communities expand access to specialized responders and connect 911 calls with the most appropriate response based on the needs of the person and situation.

The Policing Project at New York University School of Law announced its partnership with the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) to support its litigation against the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) and its illegal practice of targeting motorists based on their race and ethnicity.

As part of a settlement agreement with entertainers Eric Andre and Clayton English, the Clayton County Police Department has confirmed it has ended its controversial airport interdiction program at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and agreed to reforms designed to protect travelers' constitutional rights.

The Policing Project welcomes today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court in Chatrie v. United States, recognizing that geofence searches — a technique through which law enforcement can access detailed location data from mobile devices present near a crime scene — are indeed a “search” under the Fourth Amendment, and thus require a warrant issued upon probable cause.

Our new series of reports examines the rapid expansion of powerful DNA technologies that are transforming criminal investigations — while warning that the absence of meaningful regulation threatens civil liberties, public trust, and the long-term legitimacy of forensic DNA analysis.