4th Amendment

Challenging the Status Quo: Mobilizing Youth Defense Teams to Uphold Youth Rights & Uproot Injustice

Categories: Private, Resource Library, Video

This Racial Justice Webinar was hosted by the Gault Center and Georgetown Law’s Juvenile Justice Clinic & Initiative on May 29, 2024. The webinar focused on a collective call to action for the youth defense community to transform the juvenile legal system by centering youth and their constitutional rights to freedom, liberty, and equality. This…

Cultivating Caring Communities in Schools: Tools for Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Categories: Resource Library, Training, Video

School-based arrests have long made up a substantial number of cases in the juvenile legal system. This is particularly true for Black, Native/Indigenous, and Latino students; immigrant students, students with disabilities, LGBTQ+ students, and other historically marginalized students. Despite significant decreases in the rate of serious crimes and violence on school campuses over the past…

Findings Regarding Department of Justice Investigation of Lauderdale County Youth Court, Meridian Police Department, and Mississippi Division of Youth Services

Categories: Policy Tool, Resource Library

Challenging the Status Quo: Mobilizing Youth Defense Teams to Uphold Youth Rights & Uproot Injustice

Cultivating Caring Communities in Schools: Tools for Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Black Lives Monitored

Race, Surveillance, Resistance

State Settlement Agreement, U.S. v. Lauderdale

City Settlement Agreement, U.S. v. Lauderdale

Complaint, U.S. v. Lauderdale

Early Access to Counsel in Police Precincts Data Collection Practices & Recommendations

Early Access to Counsel in Police Precincts Best Practices and Recommendations

Early Access to Legal Counsel for Youth: An Implementation Study of California Senate Bills 395 and 203

Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea

A More Grown-Up Response to Ordinary Adolescent Behaviors: Repealing PINS Laws to Protect and Empower D.C. Youth

Findings Regarding Department of Justice Investigation of Lauderdale County Youth Court, Meridian Police Department, and Mississippi Division of Youth Services

Supplemental Brief on Behalf of Defendant-Respondent (New Jersey)

Supplemental Brief and Appendix on Behalf of Defendant-Petitioner (New Jersey)

Brief of Proposed Amicus Curiae (New Jersey)

Spears v. South Carolina (Supreme Court of the United States)

State v. Spears (South Carolina)

Oregon v. Arreola-Botello

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Complaint (New York)

Motion to Suppress Tangible Evidence in Violation of Respondent’s Fourth Amendment Rights (District of Columbia)

Motion to Suppress Tangible Evidence and Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support Thereof (District of Columbia)

Motion to Suppress Evidence Obtained from Unlawful Search and Memorandum (Wisconsin)

Motion to Exclude Tangible Evidence and Motion for Sanctions (Maryland)

Letter Requesting Dismissal (District of Columbia)