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APPEAL DISMISSAL IS A VICTORY FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES NATIONWIDE

September 12, 2019

MEDIA ALERT
September 12, 2019 WHAT: The U.S. Department of Justice has dismissed the U.S. Department of Education’s (the Department) appeal of a federal court ruling finding that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Department engaged in an “illegal delay” of the 2016 Equity in …

Sacramento City Unified School District sued over the segregation and mistreatment of students with disabilities, particularly Black students with disabilities - Suit follows years of documented disability and race discrimination by the District

September 5, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 5, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Patty Guinto, National Center for Youth Law, pguinto@youthlaw.org

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A coalition of nonprofit advocacy groups filed a lawsuit today against the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD), Superintendent Jorge A. Aguilar, and others on behalf

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Flores Counsel File Supplemental Brief in Support of Motion to Block Regulations Governing the Detention of Migrant Children

August 30, 2019

The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) and co-counsel filed a supplemental motion on Friday, August 30 to block the Administration’s Apprehension, Processing, Care and Custody of Alien Minors and Unaccompanied Alien Children final regulations. These regulations are an attempt to dismantle the Flores Settlement

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Statement on the Administration’s Plan to End the Flores Agreement from the National Center for Youth Law August 21, 2019

August 21, 2019

The Administration’s announcement today of its plans to end the Flores agreement through new regulations is a call for the mass internment of children. While official regulations will not be published until Friday, all communications from the Administration indicate that the new rules will be

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Court Allows Lawsuit Against District of Columbia for Unnecessarily Institutionalizing Children with Mental Health Disabilities to Proceed - Class Action, Filed by Disability Rights DC, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the National Center for Youth Law, and Schulte Roth & Zabel, Claims Violations of Americans with Disabilities Act and Medicaid Act

July 26, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 25, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Patty Guinto, National Center for Youth Law, pguinto@youthlaw.org Today, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied the District of Columbia’s motion to dismiss a class action filed by lawyers for children with mental…

Groups Detail “Chilling Effects” of Secretary DeVos’s Unlawful Rollback of Title IX Survivor Protections - In New Legal Filing, Plaintiffs Say Abandoned Guidance Deters Victims From Coming Forward, Delays Investigations of Sexual Violence Claims

July 26, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 25, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Patty Guinto, National Center for Youth Law, pguinto@youthlaw.org Washington, D.C. — Advocates for campus survivors of sexual violence submitted new court filings that detail the barriers to justice erected by Secretary Betsy DeVos’s unlawful rollback of Title…

Historic Settlement Over Abuses of Youth Probation Program - Riverside County Will Stop Referring Youths to Program that Criminalized Adolescent Behavior

July 25, 2019

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July 25, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Patty Guinto, National Center for Youth Law, pguinto@youthlaw.org RIVERSIDE, CA — In the settlement of a lawsuit against the unconstitutional Youth Accountability Team (YAT) program in Riverside County that treated thousands of youths — especially those of…

Activists Flood the Halls of the State Capitol Calling for Investments to Transform Youth Justice

May 6, 2019

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May 6^th, 2019 Contact: Miranda Perry, 510-835-8098 ext. 3046, mperry@youthlaw.org Sacramento – Youth activists and advocates descended on the State Capitol on Monday in support of legislative efforts to transform the youth justice system in California. The mass mobilization was…

L.A. County Launches Innovative Model for Serving Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth

March 14, 2019

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March 14, 2019 Contact: Kate Walker Brown, kwalker@youthlaw.org LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles County is launching a new, interagency protocol to improve efforts to proactively identify and serve exploited youth who come into contact with the juvenile justice system. The Detention…

Court Reinstates Protections Against Racial Discrimination in Special Education – U.S. Department of Education Ordered to Implement 2016 Regulations

March 7, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2019 Contact: Denise Marshall, COPAA Executive Director, denise@copaa.org, (443)-310-8638|
Seth Galanter, National Center for Youth Law Senior Director, sgalanter@youthlaw.org, (202) 288-8188 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia…