Defending Children’s Right to Hug Their Parents in Adams County
E.L. et al. v. Claps et al. Our lawsuit argues that children whose parents are detained at the Adams…
Defending Parents’ Right to Access the Safe Haven Law Without Liability
Amicus Brief: Civil Rights Corps, Movement for Family Power, Center for Constitutional Rights, alongside other civil rights organizations and…
Challenging the Riverside County Bail Process
Sandoval v. Riverside. In May 2025, individuals detained in Riverside County jails filed a class action lawsuit challenging Riverside…
Challenging probation detainer practices in Allegheny County
Horton v. Rangos. In 2022, we filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of individuals detained at Allegheny County…
Holding Houston Police Accountable for Alleged Attack on a Disabled Black Man
Holland v. Otero. On January 29, 2025, Civil Rights Corps filed a lawsuit against 6 Houston Police Department officers…
Challenging pretrial detention practices in Oregon
In partnership with public defenders in Oregon, Civil Rights Corps is challenging Oregon’s longstanding practices of jailing people charged…
Defending the First Amendment Right to Observe Dependency Court in Durham County
Civil Rights Corps v. Walker. In November 2024, Civil Right Corps filed a lawsuit asking the federal court to…
Fighting for Transparency in the Prosecutorial Misconduct Complaint Process in New York
Civil Rights Corps v. LaSalle. In response to the filing of the first Accountability NY complaints in 2021, NYC…
Holding Judges Accountable in San Mateo County
Civil Rights Corps worked with an amazing group of organizers at Silicon Valley De-Bug and law professor Lara Bazelon…
Challenging Police Brutality at a Protest Outside the DNC Building in D.C.
Rise v. Bagshaw. In 2024, Civil Rights Corps filed a landmark lawsuit challenging alleged police brutality in Washington, DC,…
Holding Houston Police Accountable for Alleged K9 Attack on Black Motorist
McWashington v. Rodgers. Mr. McWashington, a Black man, was pulled over for slow rolling through stop signs in Houston….
Holding Harris County Constables Accountable for Alleged Unlawful Entry Into Wrong Family’s Home
Harrington v. Lancaster. In January 2024, Civil Rights Corps filed a federal lawsuit against three members of the Harris…
Defending a Child’s Right to Hug Their Parents in Flint
S.L. v. Swanson. In 2024, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of children and parents in…
Defending a Child’s Right to Hug Their Parents in Port Huron
M.M. v. King. In 2024, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of children and parents in…
Holding D.C. Police Accountable for Alleged Unlawful Arrest of a Mom and her Minor Daughter
Lewis v. District of Columbia. Our lawsuit alleges that, on two separate occasions, Malaika Lewis and her minor daughter,…
Holding Houston Police Accountable for Alleged Hogtying and Racial Profiling of Hispanic Man
Ramos v Erwin. In 2023, Civil Rights Corps filed a lawsuit against 5 Houston Police Department officers on behalf…
Holding Harris County Deputies Accountable for Alleged Brutal K9 Attack of Unarmed Black Man
Thomas v. Bruss. In February 2023, Civil Rights Corps brought suit on behalf of Kerry Lee Thomas against three…
Challenging Pretrial Detention Practices in Maryland
Butler v. Prince George’s County. In 2022, CRC and partners filed a class action lawsuit challenging Prince George’s County’s…
Holding D.C. Police Accountable for Alleged Unlawful Seizure, Arrest, and Excessive Force
Millet v District of Columbia. In March of 2023, CRC brought suit on behalf of David Millet against the…
Holding D.C. Police Accountable for Alleged False Arrest, Assault, and Imprisonment of District Resident
Jackson v. District of Columbia. In 2023, we filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia and two Metropolitan…
Challenging the Los Angeles Bail Schedule
Urquidi v. City of Los Angeles. CRC and co-counsel brought suit in California Superior Court in November 2022 on…
Accountability New York
Prosecutors are some of the most powerful lawyers and are only rarely held accountable for professional misconduct. In New…
Challenging Debtors’ Prison Practices in Oklahoma
Graff v. Aberdeen Enterprizes II, Inc. On November 2, 2017, Civil Rights Corps, the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and…
Ending the Fee-based Diversion Program in Maricopa County
Briggs v. Montgomery. In 2018, we filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and Treatment Assessment Screening…
Challenging the Money Bail System in Tulsa County
Feltz v. Regalado. In 2018, Civil Rights Corps filed a lawsuit challenging Tulsa County’s unconstitutional wealth-based pretrial detention system….
Challenging the Money Bail Practices in Cullman County
Hester v. Gentry. In 2018, Civil Rights Corps and partners filed a lawsuit alleging that hundreds of people in…
Challenging Debtors’ Prison Practices in Ferguson
Fant v. City of Ferguson. In 2015, we filed a landmark challenge to the City of Ferguson’s conversion of…
Challenging the money bail system in Cook County
Robinson v. Martin. Civil Rights Corps filed a historic challenge to the unconstitutional money bail system in Cook County,…
Challenging the money bail system in Randolph County
Edwards v. Cofield. In 2017, Civil Rights Corps and partners filed a putative class-action lawsuit alleging that the money…
Challenging Money Bail Practices in Calhoun
Walker v. City of Calhoun. In 2015, Civil Rights Corps and the Southern Center for Human Rights filed a…
Challenging For-Profit Probation Scheme in Rutherford County
Rodriguez v. Providence Community Corrections. In September 2017, Civil Rights Corps announced a landmark settlement in a first-of-its-kind class…
Challenging the Money Bail System in Alamance County
Guill v. Allen. In November 2019, CRC filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of three people locked in jail…
Challenging For-Profit Probation Scheme in Giles County
McNeil v. Community Probation Services. In 2018, five named plaintiffs sued Giles County, TN and two private probation companies…
Striking Down the Money Bail System in Louisiana
Caliste v. Cantrell. In 2017, Civil Rights Corps filed a landmark federal class action lawsuit challenging the unconstitutional money…
COVID-19: Fighting for Release & Better Conditions for People Detained in Cook County Jail
Mays v. Dart. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., many of us protected ourselves by isolating…
COVID-19: Fighting for Release & Better Conditions for People Detained in Oakland County Jail, Michigan
Cameron v. Bouchard. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., many of us protected ourselves by isolating…
Challenging Money Bail Practices in Nevada
Valdez-Jimenez v. Eighth Judicial District Court. Working closely with the Clark County Public Defender’s Office, Civil Rights Corps challenged…
COVID-19: Fighting for Release & Better Conditions for People Detained in Prince George’s County Jail
Seth v. McDonough. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., many of us protected ourselves by isolating…
Challenging pretrial detention in Houston & Harris County
Hernandez v. City of Houston & Lomas v. Harris County. In 2016, Civil Rights Corps filed two class-action lawsuits…
Holding DC Police Accountable for Alleged Unconstitutional Search Warrant Practices
Between 2014 and 2015 we filed multiple lawsuits against the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC that alleged…
Dismantling Debtors’ Prisons in New Orleans
Cain v. City of New Orleans. In Louisiana, the judges who order and collect fines and fees from impoverished…
Protecting a Public Defenders’ First Amendment Rights in Montgomery County, PA
Hudson v. Montgomery County. In early February 2020, Plaintiff Keisha Hudson, who was then Deputy Chief Public Defender for…
Challenging the money bail system in Harris County
ODonnell v. Harris County. In 2016, a single mom of two girls who was arrested for driving on a…
Challenging the Money Bail System in Hamblen County
Torres v. Collins. We filed a major constitutional civil rights case alleging that the Hamblen County money bail system…
Holding Prosecutors Accountable for Illegal Practices in Orleans Parish
Singleton v. Cannizzaro. Our lawsuit sought to end the unconstitutional deception and jailing of crime victims and witnesses by…
Striking Down the Money Bail System in California
Humphrey. In partnership with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, Civil Rights Corps has filed and won numerous state…
Striking Down Unfair Bail Rules in Davidson County Criminal Court
Nashville Community Bail Fund (NCBF) v. Gentry. NCBF is a nonprofit that works to free people who are being…
Challenging the Money Bail & Pretrial Detention System in St. Louis
Dixon v. City of St. Louis. In 2019, Civil Rights Corps and partners brought a landmark challenge to the…
Challenging Debtors’ Prison Practices in Jennings
Jenkins v. City of Jennings. In 2016, Civil Rights Corps, in partnership with ArchCity Defenders and the Saint Louis…
Note: This map is non-exhaustive and represents a subset of Civil Rights Corps’ work