Eugene, OR –May 25 marked two years since the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin. Though not the last Black man killed by militarized police, the outrage and heartbreak that flowed from his death spurred an uprising that continues today.
Heavy-handed police responses to protests in the United States (and around the world) are nothing new. While horrifically graphic videos and images of police brutality taken by everyday people are now circulated across the Internet in the blink of an eye, the institution of police departments in this country […]
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August 19, 2021
Contacts: Marianne Dugan or Lauren Regan, Senior Staff Attorneys
541-687-9490
info@cldc.org
Lane County, Oregon – In light of new evidence, on August 19, 2021, the Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) and Black Unity moved to amend their […]
100 years ago this week, on May 31 and June 1, 1921, mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, from land and air. The white mob destroyed more than 35 square […]
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March 8, 2021
Contact: Lauren Regan, Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org
Eugene, OR —Today, the Civil Liberties Defense Center filed a federal civil rights lawsuit […]
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February 22, 2021
Contacts:
Lauren Regan, Executive Director and Senior Staff Attorney
info@cldc.org or (541) 687-9810
Marianne Dugan, Senior Staff Attorney
mdugan@cldc.org or (541) 687-9810
Eugene, OR — Today, attorneys with the Civil Liberties Defense Center amended their federal […]
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January 12, 2021
Contacts:
Erin Grady, Plaintiff: (303) 905-8601 or pennyroyale07@gmail.com
Tyler Hendry, Plaintiff: dhg.heroic@gmail.com
Marianne Dugan, Senior Staff Attorney: (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org
Today CLDC resolved one of our activist cases with a sentence of discharge (no punishment) for a woman who was acting as an ally and accompanied a non-binary person who was sexually assaulted by an on-duty cop, Christopher Drumm, with the Eugene Police Department.
The victim had called 911 for police […]
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July 31, 2020
Contacts:
Lauren Regan, Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney: (541) 687-9180 or lregan@cldc.org
Cooper Brinson, Staff Attorney: (541) 687-9180 or cbrinson@cldc.org
CLDC Files Second Suit to Protect the Public from Police Violence
Eugene, OR — Today, attorneys with the Civil Liberties Defense Center filed their second federal […]
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July 21, 2020
Contacts:
Marianne Dugan, CLDC Staff Attorney: (541) 687-9180 or mdugan@cldc.org
Henry Houston, Plaintiff: (541)484-0519 or henry@eugeneweekly.com
CLDC Files Suit to Protect the Free Press from Police Violence
Eugene, OR — Today, CLDC attorneys filed suit in the U.S. Federal District Court in Eugene, alleging that the City of […]
