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Landmark
Settlement Reached With Maryland State Police in "Driving
While Black" Case
After
more than a decade of fighting for justice on behalf of
individuals who were racially profiled on Interstate 95 in
Maryland, the ACLU announced a landmark settlement has been
reached with the Maryland State Police (MSP) to end a
"Driving While Black" lawsuit.
The
agreement settles an ACLU federal lawsuit filed in 1998 on
behalf of the Maryland NAACP and several individual
plaintiffs charging that MSP troopers were continuing to
engage in racial profiling based on accumulated evidence
showing a pattern and practice of discrimination. The
agreement provides substantial damages to the individual
plaintiffs and requires that the state police retain an
independent consultant to assess its progress towards
eliminating the practice of racial profiling.
"The
significance of this settlement extends well beyond the
boundaries of the state of Maryland," said Reginald
Shuford, a senior staff attorney with the national ACLU's
Racial Justice Program. "This agreement allows Maryland
once again to be a national model for addressing and
eliminating a practice that has no place in our democracy."
Agreement
Reached To Desegregate Hartford Public Schools
The
ACLU, with other organizations, struck an agreement recently
with the state of Connecticut to implement compliance to
desegregate Hartford public schools. The agreement, the
latest
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