Feb 25, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary On President Donald J. Trump’s campaign re – election website for 2020 he lists numerous accomplishments during his first term thus far as well as promises that he claims to have fulfilled from his 2016 presidential campaign. The website...
Feb 12, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary In January 2020 the Lockport City School District located in western New York State activated a facial recognition technology program in all of the public schools in the city of Lockport in Niagara County. The school district had first been approached...
Jan 30, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary: On January 16, 2020 President Donald J. Trump issued an update to a 2003 Federal guidance document regarding protected prayer and religious expression in public schools. The document states that the guidance it is issuing for public schools will...
Jan 24, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary: On January 15, 2020, the Virginia State Senate and the Virginia House of Delegates voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The Senate voted to approve by a 28 – 12 vote while the House of Delegates voted 59 – 41 to approve the...
Jan 14, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary: For the past year, there has been a movement in the Trump Administration to roll back civil rights protections by targeting a legal rights standard that has been used for decades – the disparate – impact rule. In 1971, the U.S. Supreme...
Jan 2, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 states “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” In the...
