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Through litigation and community advocacy, Fair Fight Initiative
exposes mistreatment in the law enforcement system and works to end
mass incarceration.FFI fights on behalf of individuals and families
who cannot afford effective representation. Through litigation, we
accept individual cases that exemplify patterns of abusive
practices. In addition, we work with families and communities most
impacted by criminal justice systems in the Deep South to seek
fundamental reforms that defund law enforcement and end mass
incarceration. Some of our current cases include:•Class action
litigation against the jail in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one of the
deadliest in the United States. The case seeks the immediate
release of medically vulnerable detainees who face disproportionate
risk if they were to contract COVID-19. The jail has a history of
unsanitary conditions and providing a deadly lack of medical care,
and this is the latest in a series of lawsuits we’ve filed holding
the city and sheriff accountable. We are working in partnership
with national public interest legal organizations and an
international law firm. Although the court refused our request for
immediate relief, we continue litigating in federal court and
working with the community to get people released on bond and shine
a spotlight on the dangerous conditions made worse by
COVID-19.•Advocacy in Baton Rouge with community groups to shut the
Baton Rouge jail down and reform the state's criminal justice
system. In addition to legal staff in our home office in Savannah,
we have two people on the ground in Baton Rouge. Linda Franks, the
mother of Lamar Johnson, a young man who died as the result of
violence and neglect in the jail in 2015, leads our work in Baton
Rouge. After the death of her son, Linda founded a local coalition
that is working to close the jail and reform the criminal justice
system. Stacci Tobin, a formerly incarcerated person, works with
Linda and is a member of the local coalition. •We brought a lawsuit
on behalf of Oriel Selver, the victim of an attempted sexual
assault by a south Georgia prosecutor in a reckless and criminal
abuse of power. Oriel's case is part of our larger effort to bring
accountability to prosecutors in south Georgia, the home of the
same group of prosecutors who for months refused to charge the
killers of Ahmaud Arbery. Lawyers for the prosecutor who attempted
to sexually assault Oriel are claiming absolute immunity from the
civil suit, essentially claiming he can do whatever he wants to
women with no accountability.•We are litigating the criminal
defense of Bobby Tyson, a young Black man charged with obstruction
of justice after a minor traffic accident with undercover,
plainclothes police officers with the Savannah, Georgia police
department known as the Counter Narcotics Team ("CNT"). Since the
arrest, Bobby has been stopped four more times by police for minor
traffic infractions and searched by the same police department.
There is little doubt that the first unlawful arrest putting Bobby
into the system led to his being targeted by the city’s police
department, which has a history of racism and mistreatment of Black
men. This case will be used to shine a light on their racially
unjust policing practices and seek to defund CNT.Fair Fight
Initiative is a non-profit advocacy organization that is not
affiliated with Fair Fight Action (the political action committee
founded by Stacey Abrams).
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