The Adachi Project is a cinematic project created by the San Francisco Public Defender's Office and production companies EVEN/ODD and Compound to bring forward stories of former clients of the Public Defender's Office, highlighting the impact of the justice system on their lives.
Eighteen multifaith and nonreligious families filed a federal class action lawsuit to stop more than 1,000 Texas public school districts from displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms, arguing that it violates constitutional protections.
Federal immigration raids in North Carolina and the Appalachian region have drawn unexpected resistance from conservative rural communities, with many of those arrested being ordinary undocumented residents rather than criminals.
Los Angeles County has launched a new pilot removal defense program to provide legal representation to immigrants facing deportation proceedings, funded by unclaimed cy pres funds from the Roy settlement.