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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…

Pioneering Child Advocate Bill Grimm Receives Prestigious Mark Hardin Award for Child Welfare Legal Scholarship and Systems Change from the American Bar Association

March 7, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2019 Contact: Miranda Perry, National Center for Youth Law, mperry@youthlaw.org, 510-835-8098 ext. 3046 OAKLAND, CA – Bill Grimm, Senior Directing Attorney at the National Center for Youth Law, has been awarded the esteemed Mark Hardin Award by the American…

Federal Lawsuit: Oregon Failing to Ensure That All Children Can Attend a Full day of School - Parents & Advocates Call for Equal Access to Classrooms for Students with Disabilities

January 22, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2019 Contact: Lewis Cohen, National Center for Youth Law, lcohen@youthlaw.org, 510-899-6561
Norma Kelly, Bazelon Center, norma@jrcommunications.com, 818-395-1342
Julie Rosenthal, Bazelon Center, julie@jrcommunications.com, 202-486-3059
Selene Almazan, COPAA, selene@copaa.org, 844-426-7224…

Extreme Housing Instability and Lack of Mental Health Services Endanger Children in Kansas Foster Care, New Suit Charges - Kids Moved So Often They Are Effectively Homeless While Deprived of Necessary Mental Health Treatment, “As Kansans We Should Be Ashamed and Outraged”

November 16, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2018
Contact: Lewis Cohen, lcohen@youthlaw.org, (510)8996561 (KANSAS CITY, KANSAS) – Children in Kansas foster care face extreme housing instability—sometimes moved more than 50 or 100 times—and are deprived of critical mental health assessments and services according to a federal…

L.A. COUNTY MARKS PROGRESS IN COMBATTING COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - First Responder Protocol leads to recovery of 361 youth

November 13, 2018

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November 13, 2018 Contact: Kate Walker Brown, kwalker@youthlaw.org Los Angeles County’s intensive effort to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children and teens is having a meaningful impact, with 361 young people recovered since the launch of a new First Responder Protocol…

Trump Administration Using Fingerprint Checks to Delay Release of Immigrant Children

November 7, 2018

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November 6, 2018 CONTACT:
Naomi Dann, New York Civil Liberties Union, ndann@nyclu.org, 212-607-3372
Inga Sarda-Sorensen, American Civil Liberties Union, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org, 212-284-7347
Lewis Cohen, National Center for Youth Law, lcohen@youthlaw.org, 510-899-6561
Daniel Vohden, Morrison & Foerster, DVohden@mofo.com, 212-336-4323 NEW…

New Evidence Reinforces Claim Trump’s Title IX Policy Was Based on Sexist Stereotypes, Rendering It Unconstitutional - New Documents Reveal Senior Education Department Official Candice Jackson Ordered Staff To Read Book Describing Title IX As Protecting Women From "Sexual Bogeymen"

November 1, 2018

Legal and Advocacy Groups Cite New Evidence In Amending Federal Lawsuit Against Trump Administration
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Thursday, November 1, 2018 Contact: Charisma Troiano, Democracy Forward, (202) 701-1781, ctroiano@democracyforward.org San Francisco, CA. — Yesterday, on behalf of plaintiffs SurvJustice, Equal Rights Advocates, and Victim…

District of Columbia Faces Lawsuit for Unnecessarily Institutionalizing Hundreds of Children with Mental Health Disabilities - Class Action Complaint, Filed by Disability Rights DC, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, National Center for Youth Law, and Schulte Roth & Zabel, Sues District for Violating Americans with Disabilities Act

August 14, 2018

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FACES LAWSUIT FOR UNNECESSARILY INSTITUTIONALIZING HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISABILITIES Class Action Complaint, Filed by Disability Rights DC, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, National Center for Youth Law, and Schulte …

Lawsuit Settlement Significant for Education of Expelled Students

July 30, 2018

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July 30, 2018
Contact: Marisa Halm, Esq, Center for Children’s Advocacy mhalm@cca-ct.org; Lewis Cohen, National Center for Youth Law, lcohen@youthlaw.org CONNECTICUT – Alicia B. vs. Malloy, NCYL’s lawsuit challenging the inadequate education of expelled students in Connecticut, has settled. This…