Reprinted from The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court said Friday that police checkpoints in a crime-plagued Washington neighborhood are unconstitutional and ordered a lower court to reconsider its refusal to block the program. In June 2008,…
Demands Public Disclosure of Park Police/FBI/MPD Operation In response to reports that a resident of the District was shot in the back and killed last night in the Trinidad neighborhood by undercover federal law enforcement agents, the Partnership for Civil…
Detainee’s statements derived under torture used to sell the Iraq invasion The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) filed a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) yesterday with the CIA, Department of Defense, Department of State and other agencies to…
Detainee’s statements derived under torture used to sell the Iraq invasion The PCJF demanded today information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense including the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of…
Reprinted from The Associated Press The Partnership for Civil Justice sued the city in June after police began stopping cars and screening drivers and their passengers in the Trinidad neighborhood following a spike in shootings. The lawsuit was filed on…
The Partnership for Civil Justice, a Washington DC-based civil rights and legal organization, has filed an opening appellate brief in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in opposition to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s controversial “Neighborhood Safety Zone” roadblock/checkpoint seizure…
Feature by PCJF co-founder Mara Verheyden-Hilliard Reprinted from The Washington Post In June, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, his attorney general and the D.C. police announced the introduction of a military-style checkpoint program under which police stop drivers and allow only…
Residents Rights Group Says It Will Appeal Reprinted from The Washington Post By Del Quentin WilberWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, October 31, 2008; A01 A federal judge yesterday cleared the way for D.C. police to continue using checkpoints to screen motorists…
In response to a ruling today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denying plaintiffs’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction to end the D.C. police’s illegal checkpoint program, the plaintiffs immediately filed a Notice of Appeal to the…