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Comments, staff testimony and briefs filed solely or jointly by the Washington Lawyers’ Committee, all furthering our commitment to build a more equitable society in which the legacy of discrimination has been overcome.
Committee Urges Hope Village to Provide Additional Protections for Residents and Staff During the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis
Committee Files One of Four Amicus Briefs Castigating Maryland’s Wrongful Conviction of Pioneering Black Police Chief
Committee Submitted Comments on HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Proposed Regulation
Committee Urges Metropolitan Police Department to Reduce Custodial Arrests During COVID 19 Crisis
Committee Urges DC Department of Behavioral Health for Information on Infection Control Plans in Response to COVID19 at Saint Elizabeths Hospital
Committee Urges District to Reduce Jail and Correctional Treatment Facility Population Amidst COVID 19 Outbreak
Committee Submitted Statement to DC Council in Support of the Removing Barriers to Occupational Licensing for Returning Citizens Amendment Act of 2019
Committee Urges Councilmembers to Pass the Washington Metropolitan Opportunity Academy Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2020 and Keep Washington Met Open
Counsel, Catherine Cone Gave Testimony Regarding the Shortcomings of DCHA’s Transformation Plan
Committee Joins Amicus Briefs Concerning the Racial Justice Implications of the Public Charge Rule
“You must find a way to get in the way and make good trouble.”
Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Representative and Civil Rights Leader