Press

General

• July 15th, 2021 - NC CopWatch Website Launch
• January 7th, 2020 - Capitol Hill Statement
• June 3rd, 2020 - Forward Justice Statement of Solidarity

Unlock Our Vote Campaign

• April 26, 2022 - Newest Court Order in North Carolina’s Felony Disenfranchisement Case Puts Advocates One Step Closer to Restoring Voting Rights to People with Past Felony Convictions
• March 29, 2022 - In a Historic Win for Voting Rights Advocates, North Carolina Superior Court Makes a Ruling Granting the Right to Vote to Over 56,000 North Carolinians
• September 11, 2021 - North Carolina Supreme Court Confirms that Voters Who Registered from August 23 to September 3 who are on Felony-Based Community Supervision Must be Allowed to Vote
• September 3, 2021 - Civil Rights Groups Prepare to take the Historic CSI V. Moore Voting Rights Case to the North Carolina Supreme Court in the Continued Fight for Democracy
• August 10, 2021 - Trial Begins Monday in Civil Rights Groups’ Historic Lawsuit to Restore Voting Rights to Over 50,000 people and End Felony Disenfranchisement of North Carolinians on Community Supervision
• September 4, 2020 - NC Court Grants Summary Judgment, finding that States’ Disenfranchisement Law Violates the State Constitution
• May 11, 2020 - Civil Rights Groups File Summary Judgment Motion in Case to Restore Voting Rights to Nearly 60,000 North Carolinians Ahead of the November Election
• November 20, 2019 - Community Success Initiative, Justice Served NC, INC., NC NAACP File Historic Rights Restoration Legal Challenge Seeking to Restore More than 70,000 North Carolinians to the Rolls

Season of Democracy Campaign

• June 23, 2022 - U.S. Supreme Court Allows North Carolina Legislators to Intervene in Federal Voter ID Case, Restarting the Fight to Protect Voting Rights Under the Federal Constitution and the Voting Rights Act
• December 23, 2021 - North Carolina Supreme Court Issues Order Bringing Transparency to the Process Used to Assess Judicial Conflicts of Interest 
• December 2, 2020 - Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Issues Ruling on Voter ID Injunction: Photo Voter ID Still Enjoined in NC
• January 3, 2020 - Today Marks A Moment of Truth For the State of North Carolina: NC NAACP Stands Firm In Moral Fight Against All Voter Suppression in North Carolina
• February 22, 2019 - Court Voids Two Constitutional Amendments

COVID-19 Decarceration Efforts

• February 25, 2020 - Civil Rights Organizations Announce Settlement Agreement Securing at least 3,500 Early Releases from State Prisons in COVID-19 Lawsuit
• December 4, 2020 - N.C. Court Appoints Special Master to Oversee Protections for People Incarcerated During the Pandemic
• August 19, 2020 - Groups Call on Court to Enforce Protections for People Incarcerated During Pandemic
• April 21, 2020 [OP-ED] The Moral — and legal — case for emptying NC prisons.
• April 15, 2020 - Forward Justice Supports Durham DA Satana Deberry’s Efforts to Protect Incarcerated People From COVID-19
• April 8, 2020 - Civil Rights Groups File Emergency Lawsuit to Demand State Officials Protect Incarcerated People From COVID-19
• March 19, 2020 - Groups Urge Officials to Reduce and Protect Incarcerated Population Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak