NEW ORLEANS — A jury composed of citizens of the greater New Orleans area has found that a St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon Mr. De'Shaun Johnson, son of Ms. Teliah Perkins, as he filmed the violent arrest of his mother.

SHREVEPORT — The ACLU of Louisiana has released the following statement after former DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office (DPSO) Correctional Officer Javarrea Pouncy pled guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the beating of ACLU of Louisiana client, Mr. Jarius Brown.

NEW ORLEANS—A settlement has been reached on behalf of ACLU of Louisiana client, Mr. Cedric Otkins, a teacher who was stopped and had his car searched by St. Charles Parish Sheriff officers at a public park in Destrehan, LA after one of the officers claimed to smell cannabis emitting from the...

NEW ORLEANS —Professor Alexander A. Reinert, who authored the pivotal article, “Qualified Immunity’s Flawed Foundation”, has filed an amicus brief in support of Mr. Wesley Pigott and his two children in Pigott v. Gintz.

NEW ORLEANS —The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Ms. Deanna Thomas, an unhoused 56-year-old woman was handcuffed, violently thrown on the ground, and kneeled on by East Jefferson Levee District Police Department officers while being arrested for residing on a levee in Kenner, LA

LAFAYETTE —The ACLU of Louisiana has released the following statement after a jury found that seven Lafayette Police Department officers did not engage in or fail to intervene in excessive force in their arrest of Mr. Raynaldo Sampy, a Black man who was asleep and pulled from his parked truck

BOSSIER CITY, LA—Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana have filed a criminal appeal on behalf of their client Anthony Monroe, after Mr. Monroe was convicted of battery of a police officer and resisting an officer. The appeal, filed on November 17,

NEW ORLEANS —The ACLU of Louisiana has released the following statement after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a First Amendment violation claim brought against a St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy by Teliah Perkins, a Black woman from Slidell who was violently arrested at her own

NEW ORLEANS—The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana announced today the first payments of a Guaranteed Monthly Income (GMI) program that will provide financial support to individuals and families whose lives have been significantly impacted by racist policing, mass incarceration, and the