End Racial Profiling Act

aka ERPA

10/19/2011

Three Faces of Racial Profiling: The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement

By Jennifer Bellamy, Washington Legislative Office at 1:48pm

Imagine that someone assumes that you are a criminal based on your race, religion or ethnicity and treats you like one. Take the case of the Latino students at Hoover High School in Los Angeles who were rounded up during lunch, detained for two hours, frisked and interrogated about gang affiliations by Glendale and Los Angeles police officers, despite no evidence of wrong doing.

10/18/2011

Three Faces of Racial Profiling

The Three Faces of Racial Profiling: The ACLU Connects the Dots

By Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 11:32am

Racial profiling not only goes against our Constitution and our country’s value for equality — it also hinders law enforcement officials from doing an effective job.

10/07/2011

End Racial Profiling Act

One Step Closer to Ending Racial Profiling

By Dan Zeidman, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 10:28am

Whether it be the Arab-American Secret Service agent barred from a commercial flight en route to join the security detail at President George W. Bush's Crawford ranch, the African American high school student in Seattle singled out and degraded in front of his friends, or the Latino family in Chicago awoken at the crack of dawn by police and building inspectors searching for evidence of overcrowding — racial profiling touches us all.

American Civil Liberties Union