LatinoJustice PRLDEF Publishes 2025 Report on Civil Rights Advocacy in Key States
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August 22, 2025
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LatinoJustice PRLDEF Publishes 2025 Report on Civil Rights Advocacy in Key States
New York, NY – LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a national civil rights organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of the rights of Latinos in the United States, released its 2025 Legislative Roundup. The report highlighting the organization’s legislative advocacy across criminal justice, immigrant rights, education and economic justice, and voting rights.
For more than five decades, LatinoJustice PRLDEF has fought to advance civil rights through litigation, community empowerment, and policy advocacy. In 2025, LatinoJustice focused in working in state legislatures including New York, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and California, where according to the organization advocacy efforts can have the greatest impact.
“With escalating attacks on immigrants, voting rights, and communities of color, our work has been to both protect and expand our communities' rights,” said Anita Teekah, Chief of Advocacy at LatinoJustice PRLDEF. “With political gridlock in Congress, we have held the line against harmful laws in key states. As we look to 2026 and beyond, we will continue to defend our communities against regressive law and lay the groundwork for transformative change across the country.
The 2025 Legislative Roundup report describes LatinoJustice’s work across litigation, policy advocacy, and community organizing. It notes the organization’s engagement with directly impacted individuals and coalition partners in efforts to influence legislation affecting Latinx communities.
Report Highlights:
Immigrant Rights: LatinoJustice opposed Texas legislation mandating ICE collaboration and championed immigrant protections in New York, including the New York CARES Act, which would expand benefits for undocumented crime survivors.
Criminal Justice: LatinoJustice played a leading role in efforts to end solitary confinement in Florida, abolish the death penalty in California, expand youth rehabilitation opportunities, and fight parole restrictions in Texas. In New York, the organization pushed to dismantle the NYPD gang database and limit the militarized Strategic Response Group.
Education/Economic Justice: LatinoJustice joined coalitions to fight discriminatory admissions practices in higher education, protect immigrant students in Tennessee from exclusionary enrollment policies, and advance fair hiring initiatives in California.
Voting Rights: Building on leadership in advancing state voting rights acts, LatinoJustice worked to secure funding for Connecticut’s Voting Rights Act implementation, supported pending legislation in Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and continued to prepare the ground for a Florida Voting Rights Act.
For fifty-three years LatinoJustice has brought impact litigation to address discrimination against Latinos in a wide variety of other areas, including education, employment, fair housing, immigrant rights, language rights, redistricting, and voting rights. In addition, the organization has defended the constitutional rights of Latinos against police departments and correctional institutions engaged in discriminatory and unlawful practices.
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About LatinoJustice
LatinoJustice PRLDEF works to create a more just society by using and challenging the rule of law to secure transformative, equitable and accessible justice, by empowering our community and by fostering leadership through advocacy and education. For over 50 years, LatinoJustice PRLDEF has acted as an advocate against injustices throughout the country. To learn more about LatinoJustice, visit www.LatinoJustice.org