CLASP

In recent years, federal policymakers have taken steps to address the societal implications of AI and big data technologies, including the White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence, and the U.S. Department of Education’s guidance on…

In the US, all state and federal prisons allow some form of involuntary labor as part of various correctional work programs. Urgent reform is needed.

By Clarence Okoh Testimony about his extensive experience in combating the use of emerging technologies to undermine the civil and human rights of youth and young adults of color. He highlighted his involvement in initiatives such as the PASCO Coalition: People Against the Surveillance of…

CLASP and our partners in the PASCO Coalition have asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to end its support of Pasco County's discriminatory predictive policing programs...

In this report, we analyze the landscape for family-based alternative sentencing programs to assess the effectiveness of these programs in meeting their program goals.

This brief offers context on the youth criminalization crisis in the United States. We then outline a series of harmful elements in the BSCA.

In many states, people with drug-related felony convictions are banned from SNAP and TANF. This impedes successful reentry.

Standardized enforcement of the Fair Housing Act’s (FHA) long-held discriminatory effects liability is necessary to uncover policies and practices that have an unjustified discriminatory effect—regardless of intent—and legally require that the practice be replaced.

The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and 62 partner organizations urged the U.S.

The public health and economic crises of the past year have exacerbated existing economic inequities. The pandemic has devastated Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color; workers in jobs paying low wages; youth and young adults; women and women of color; and people impacted by…