Reprinted from Gothamist Last fall, more than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested after they marched onto the Brooklyn Bridge. Protesters sued the city, claiming that police lured…
In an opinion issued late today, US District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that New York Police Department officers are not entitled to qualified immunity from…
Reprinted from The Associated Press A judge gave the green light Thursday to a lawsuit against police officers in the arrests of 700 Occupy Wall Street…
Reprinted from Business Insider Remember the Occupy Movement? Since last November, when the NYPD closed the Zuccotti Park encampment in downtown Manhattan –the Movement’s birthplace and…
Documents just obtained by the PCJF from its FOIA request show massive nationwide monitoring, surveillance and information sharing between the Department of Homeland Security and…
As a result of hard fought litigation, the PCJF has obtained hundreds of pages of General and Special Orders of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).…
Reprinted from The Gothamist According to 77 pages of documents released by the U.S. Park Police in response to a FOIA request, the owner of Zuccotti…
Reprinted from Huffington Post WASHINGTON— Jai Shankar is no longer wearing the ankle bracelet that had been tracking his every move since 2010. Shankar was ordered to…
Many cities and police forces are eyeing new ways to crack down on protesters Reprinted from AlterNet The First Amendment right to assemble and protest…
Reprinted from Associated Press WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia judge has ordered the release of documents related to police policies in a blistering ruling…
Executive Director to Testify at D.C. Council Hearing Today Opposing Bill 19-645: Criminal Code Amendments Act of 2012 that targets demonstrators and the Occupy movement…
Reprinted from DCist The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, a civil-rights watchdog group, released yesterday a set of emails from District officials that it claims as…