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Briefing Reports

Briefing Report Cover Beyond Suspensions: Examining School Discipline Policies and Connections to the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color with Disabilities

This report examines school discipline practices and policies impacting students of color with disabilities and the possible connections to the school-to-prison pipeline.
Briefing Report Cover Collateral Consequences: The Crossroads of Punishment, Redemption and the Effects on Communities

This report provides an overview of the relevant data and arguments for and against the imposition of collateral consequences on people with criminal records.
Briefing Report Cover Broken Promises: Continuing Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans

In this report, the Commission updates its 2003 report, A Quiet Crisis: Federal Funding and Unmet Needs in Indian Country, which evaluated budgets and spending of federal agencies that sponsor Native American programs. 
Briefing Report Cover Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Practices

This report examines rates of police use of force; whether rates and instantiations of that use of force violate civil rights; promising or proven policies and practices to minimize unnecessary use of force; and the perception and reality of discrimination in police use of force.
Report Cover for Statutory Enforcement 2018 An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States

In 2018, the Commission assessed minority voter access around the country, and evaluated the Department of Justice’s enforcement of the Voting Rights Act since 2006, in particular after the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision.