The PCJF filed a civil rights claim in October 2023 against the City and County of San Francisco, challenging the illegal and unconstitutional arrest and detention of 113 young people. The PCJF is currently preparing to file a federal civil rights class action lawsuit against San Francisco and police commanders.
The parents of teenagers caught in the July Dolores Park “hill bomb” mass arrests filed a claim against San Francisco on Monday alleging that police officials violated their childrens’ constitutional rights.
Excerpt from Truthout: On Monday, August 28, a Water Protector arrested and charged with a felony for participating in a nonviolent direct action against the Line 3 pipeline will head to trial.
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and allied organizations sent the following letter to San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
Vast majority of criminal charges against juveniles, adults are now discharged, but civil lawsuit against San Francisco will proceed.
The community outrage over the San Francisco Police Department's response to an unsanctioned skateboarding event over the weekend continues.
“There’s a lot of interest in suing and challenging this police misconduct to prevent something like this from happening again,” said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.
An excerpt from article by KQUED. Read the full story here. San Francisco police arrested over a hundred people in the city’s Mission District Saturday night…
Rachel Lederman, a long-time civil rights attorney now with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, has spoken to some two dozen parents, teenagers, and young adults, she said, gathering information about the Saturday arrests for a possible civil lawsuit.
The SFPD is charging the children and young people with incitement to riot and conspiracy among other charges. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund demands these charges be dropped immediately.
“The Supreme Court has let stand a Second Circuit ruling that poses a clear and present danger to democracy, free speech and a free press,” says Mara Verheyden-Hilliard to U.S. News and World Report
Justices are being asked to require police to warn peaceful protesters before mass-arresting them, U.S. News reports.