- Apr 25, 2021
Nashville Police Department Changes Employee Policy Allowing Hijabs After Three Year Battle
BLH Client Maryam Mohammed wanted to be Nashville's first hijab-wearing police officer. After completing the interview process, rigorous physical agility test, and civil service exam, she ranked 25 out of over 100 candidates. But just days before she thought she would be starting the academy, she learned she'd been disqualified because her hijab did not comply with the department's uniform policy. After a three year battle, and on the eve of filing a federal civil rights comp
- Apr 15, 2021
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against the City of New York for the NYPD’s Racist Use of Marijuana Laws
In 2019, the legislature removed the power of the NYPD to arrest New Yorkers for modest amounts of marijuana. Undeterred, the NYPD illegally arrested thousands and thousands of New Yorkers, mostly people of color. This lawsuit seeks to correct that injustice. “It’s hard to imagine an arrest procedure more subject to abuse by the NYPD than this one. For many, many months the NYPD intentionally and willfully ignored the will of the people of the State of New York as embodied i
