Evidence introduced in court is generally considered public information, but D.C. attorney general Karl Racine has invented a new legal theory when it comes to video evidence taken from the Metropolitan Police Department’s body cameras. He says it belongs to…
Recording us all from the sky By Carl MessineoPCJF Legal Director Published on Alternet Everyone’s movements are watched from a hidden camera in the sky, but no one knows it. Ex-military private contractors control the cameras and run the operation…
Reprint from The Washington Post The whole thing would be laughable, a real thigh-slapper, if the danger weren’t so real. The Trump Organization, led by arch First Amendment foe Donald Trump, has worked out a traffic arrangement with the D.C.…
Even if the voters do not go his way on Election Day, Donald Trump will still have an increased presence in the nation’s capital this fall. When the Trump International Hotel opens next month in the Old Post Office building…
Below is an article on the PCJF’s litigation and defense of free speech rights against Trump’s privatization of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Excerpt from The Washington Post Free speech advocates are suing the District government and federal agencies over…
Civil Rights Group Challenges Buffer Zone that Restricts Free Speech at New Trump International Hotel PCJF sues D.C. and federal government to force release of documents related to turnover of historic quintessential public space Defending the right to protest, the…
By Mara Verheyden-HilliardExecutive Director of the PCJF Originally published on Alternet The events of the past week have placed the country at a decisive moment. Words matter but deeds matter more. Leadership matters. President Obama spoke about the need for…
No words can express the horror of the massacre in an Orlando gay bar that took the lives of 49 innocent people. We in the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund join with millions of others worldwide to express our condolences…
Excerpt from Washington Times Cleveland’s security plans for the Republican National Convention include the deployment of more than 3,000 police officers, but security experts and those expecting to attend fear that a compact space for demonstrations combined with turbulent crowds…
PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Chip Gibbons, Defending Dissent Legal Fellow, are interviewed on KPFA about the government’s spying on peaceful protest.
Newly released documents show that the ATF, an agency that is supposed to investigate crimes related to alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives — including a unit tasked with monitoring terrorist activities and organized crime — devoted resources and taxpayer money…
FBI used counter-terrorism authority to track pacifist human rights group for 10 years By Mara Verheyden-HilliardExecutive Director of thePartnership for Civil Justice Fund For a decade, the FBI flagrantly abused its counter-terrorism authority to conduct a widespread surveillance and monitoring…