What We’re Working On

In the Policy Office, our work has three main focus areas:

Racial and Ethnic Data

• Public Comment Supporting Equitable Data Collection and Sharing
• Public Comment Supporting Racial Data Collection from EPA Committee Nominees to Address Inequity and Increase Transparency
• New Report on the State of Racial and Ethnic Data Collection and Reporting
• Public Comment Regarding Proposed Changes to Federal Racial and Ethnic Data Collection Standards

Civil Rights

• Amicus Brief Supporting a Washington State Law that Bans Conversion Therapy for Minors
• Amicus Brief Challenging the Independent State Legislature Theory (ISLT)
• Amicus Brief Supporting the Boston’s School Committee’s Plan to Expand Access to the City’s Top Ranked “Exam Schools”
• New Report, Moving Toward Antibigotry: Collected Essays from the Center for Antiracist Research’s Antibigotry Convening
• Amicus Brief opposing Florida’s Recent Alien Land Law

Mass Criminalization/Incarceration

• Amicus Brief Arguing that Massachusetts’ Constitutional Ban on LWOP Sentences for Children Should be Extended to 18-20-year-olds
• Amicus Brief Challenging Oregon’s Rule for Impeachment by Prior Convictions
• Petitioner Larry Thompson, Supported by Amicus Brief Filed by Center for Antiracist Research, Wins SCOTUS Civil Rights Case
• Policy Office Publishes on Legal Barriers to Accountability for Racialized Police Violence
• Amicus Brief Urging the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to Abolish the State’s Felony-Murder Rule