This resource provides a brief overview of five key rights of Californians who have been incarcerated and/or have criminal records.
Civil Liberties
California Voting Rights for Unhoused People and People with Criminal Records
This resource provides an overview of the voting rights of Californians who are unhoused and/or have criminal records.
Desperate Impact: On The Future of Disparities in Anti-discrimination Law (Part 1)
Part 1 of this 3 part series will give an overview of pre-Trump II federal policy on disparate impact analysis in employment and housing discrimination law and how that form of analysis bears on the rights and interests of persons with records of arrest or criminal conviction.
Desperate Impact: On The Future of Disparities in Anti-discrimination Law (Part 2)—Criminal Records and Housing Discrimination
Part 2 of this 3 part series will address changes to federal housing anti-discrimination policy as it bears on persons with arrest and conviction histories
In Re D.P.
Under California Rules of Court, rule 8.520(f), Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers Inc., East Bay Family Defenders, and East Bay Community Law Center request leave to file the attached amicus curiae brief. The brief addresses the second issue on which the Court granted review: “Is an appeal of a juvenile court’s jurisdictional finding moot when a parent asserts that he or she may be barred from challenging a current or future placement on the Child Abuse Central Index as a result of the finding?”
LSPC v. Ahern (complaint)
LSPC and DRA filed a 2012 lawsuit to stop discriminatory treatment of people with disabilities incarcearted at Santa Rita Jail.
