NACDL President Chris Adams' comments to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona regarding the Office for Civil Rights' review of amendments made in 2020 to regulations guiding TItle IX investigations and proceedings.

Coalition letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding legislation to address the judicial discretion that allows for factoring into sentencing conduct acquitted by a jury, as proposed in Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2021 (S. 601).

Coalition letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding a renewed proposal to ban judges from determining sentences influenced by conduct acquitted by a jury, as addressed in the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2021 (S. 601).

Report of the Sex Offender Policy Task Force reflecting NACDL's policy on sex offender registries and other practices as adopted by the Board of Directors.

Report of the Sex Offender Policy Task Force reflecting NACDL's policy on sex offender registries and other practices as adopted by the Board of Directors.

Nearly a half million people, or approximately three percent of Florida's adults, pass through the state's misdemeanor courts each year. Most are found guilty. The average court appearance lasts as little as three minutes. [Released July 2011]

NACDL created The Commission to Reform the Federal Grand Jury, drawing on the expertise of a variety of professionals throughout the criminal justice system. Commissioners spent two years examining the need for changes in the grand jury process and produced a Federal Grand Jury Bill of Rights based on their findings. The ten reforms set forth in this Bill of Rights, largely echoing those proposed by the American Bar Association (ABA) more than 20 years ago, would restore balance to the grand jury process and better protect against unwarranted prosecutions. [Released May 2000]

Panel from the 2020 Presidential Summit and Sentencing Symposium, co-hosted with the Georgetown University Law Center American Criminal Law Review

Presented by Todd Pugh, criminal defense attorney, Chicago, IL

Race Matters II: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice
January 10-11, 2019 | Los Angeles, CA

NACDL's model legislation for discovery in criminal cases

Equal Justice & the Grand Jury: Achieving Racial Fairness

Presented by: Angela J. Davis, Professor, American University Washington College of Law; Peter L. Davis, Assoc. Professor Emeritus, Touro College Law Center, Central Islip, NY; Ross H. Garber, Shipman & Goodwin, Hartford, CT; Tanya Clay House, Director of Public Policy, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; and Darryl A. Stallworth, Esq., Oakland, CA, former Alameda County Deputy District Attorney

Due Process & the Grand Jury: Protecting Targets and Witnesses

Presented by Roger Fairfax, Professor, George Washington Univ. School of Law; Carol Elder Bruce, K&L Gates, Washington, DC; Niki Kuckes, Professor, Roger Williams University School of Law, Bristol, RI; Gerald B. Lefcourt, Esq., New York, NY; and Gina Simms, Ober | Kaler, Washington, DC

Statement of the Coalition to Preserve the Attorney-Client Privilege to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the attorney-client privilege following the McNulty Memorandum and the consideration of Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act of 2007 (S. 186, H.R. 3013).

By the Coalition to Preserve the Attorney-Client Privilege: While the new Justice Department policy is a welcome and important improvement over its previous policy outlined in the McNulty Memorandum, a comprehensive solution to the ever-widening problem of government-coerced waiver is still critically needed. Therefore, the Coalition strongly supports the adoption of a Presidential Executive Order to all federal agencies requiring them to adopt effective DOJ-type reforms or the enactment of comprehensive federal legislation like the Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act (ACPPA).

Report of Task Force on Attorney-Client Privilege, New York State Bar Association, March 27, 2006.