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At our 60th anniversary commemoration at the Library of Congress, Chair Lhamon; Vice Chair Timmons-Goodson; Commissioners Adegbile, Heriot, Kladney, and Narasaki; and former Chair William Allen spoke with Susan Bro, Co-Founder and Director of the Heather Heyer Foundation, November 2017
Highlights
- February 22, 2019 Briefing: Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars – Briefing Materials
- Commission Accepting Public Comments on Immigrant Family Separation through February 25, 2019
- February 22, 2019 Briefing: Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars - Information on Public Comments
- February 22, 2019 Commission Public Briefing: Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars (Sunshine Act Meeting Notice)
- February 22, 2019 Briefing: Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars: Agenda & Confirmed Panelists
- Furlough Notice to USCCR Employees
- Information Request to the Department of Health and Human Services on Family Separation, December 2018
- Information Request to the Department of Homeland Security on Family Separation, August 2018
Commission News
- February 22, 2019 Public Briefing: Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars (Press Release)
- February 15, 2019 - Idaho Advisory Committee Announces Study on Native American Voting Rights & Calls for Public Comment (Press Release)
- February 15, 2019 - Oregon Advisory Committee Releases Report on Human Trafficking (Press Release)
- February 22, 2019 Public Briefing: Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars (Media Advisory)
- February 22, 2019 - Colorado Advisory Committee Public Meeting: Backlog in Citizenship and Naturalization Applications (Press Release)
- Commission to Hold Public Briefing: Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars - February 22, 2019
- January 30, 2019 - Oklahoma Advisory Committee Announces Study on the Impact of the State’s Constitutional Amendment on Affirmative Action
Other
Recent Reports
Annual Statutory Enforcement Reports
- Minority Voting Rights Access - 2018 Report
- Targeted Fines and Fees - 2017 Report
- Environmental Justice - 2016 Report
- Immigration Detention - 2015 Report
Briefing Reports
- Broken Promises: Continuing Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans
- Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Practices
- Contemporary Civil Rights Challenges: A View from the States - 2018 Survey of the State Advisory Committees
- Higher Education Access, Persistence, and Completion for Students of Color
State Advisory Committee Reports
- Human Trafficking in Oregon
- Employment Discrimination in Utah 1997
- Payday Lending in Rhode Island
- October 2018 - Access to Voting Across America: Collected Reports of the State Advisory Committees to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
- Colorado Constitution’s No Aid to Sectarian Institutions Clause and its Impact on Civil Rights
Recent Correspondence
- Letter to House Judiciary Committee Transmitting Commission’s Minority Voting Rights Access Report, January 2019
- Information Request to the Department of Health and Human Services on Family Separation, December 2018
- Information Request to the Department of Homeland Security on Family Separation, August 2018
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Urges U.S. Department of Health and Human Services not to narrowly define gender to a biological condition at birth, December 2018
Recent Congressional
Reports and Testimony
- Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 2018
- Request for Congressional Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2019
- USCCR Strategic Plan FY 2018 to 2022
- USCCR Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for Fiscal Year 2017