We maintain a hotline, track data, refer potential clients to good lawyers and help community groups push for reform. We opened our hotline as a project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in 1995. We get 5-8 calls per day. Callers with substantial damages and independent evidence are referred to cooperating attorneys.
Computerized documentation allows rapid access to all information collected.
The LTP provides attorneys with regular brown-bag lunches and MCLE trainings a relevant subject matter. LTP also is developing a brief bank and a file of model pleadings for use by our panel attorneys and cooperating attorneys, which we hope to make available through web technology by the end of the year. The network anchored by EBC, provides a forum wherein community activists and organizations can meet and swap information, take part in skills-building workshops, and share strategies for increasing police accountability and reducing police violence. We are doing our part to fight for human rights and against state violence inside the United States. To contact us, email us , or call 415.951.4844.