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News Release Indigenous Youth Condemn VPD Brutality and Charges Laid for Peaceful Sit-In; Call on Canada to End Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

Posted on February 22, 2021

News Release Human Rights Complainants Give New VPD Street Check Audit a Failing Grade in Annotated Response; Call on Vancouver Police Board to Ban Street Checks

Posted on February 18, 2021

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Privacy Investigation Finds Law Enforcement Agencies in Canada Used Illegal Mass Surveillance Software Tool

Posted on February 3, 2021

News Release Coalition of Organizations Call for End to Vancouver Police Department Trespass Prevention Program

Posted on January 28, 2021

News Release PRESS RELEASE: RCMP Commissioner Sued by Civil Liberties Group for Preventing Release of Watchdog Report into Police Spying

Posted on November 10, 2020

News Release Media Advisory: Civil Liberties Group to Argue that Money Laundering Inquiry Must Consider Civil Liberties and Human Rights

Posted on October 23, 2020

News Release Press Release: Father of Police Shooting Calls on Provincial Party Leaders to Prioritize Immediate Police Reform

Posted on October 21, 2020

News Release Delegation Appearing at Vancouver Police Board to Demand Ban on Police Street Checks; Over Ninety Organizations Call for Street Check Ban

Posted on September 17, 2020

News Release Civil Liberties and Indigenous Rights Groups Call on CRCC to Immediately Take Conduct of Investigation into Wet’suwet’en Land Defender’s Police Complaint

Posted on August 27, 2020

News Release Press Release: Rights Groups Call for Names of VPD Officers Engaged in Misconduct during Street Check Review Ride-Alongs

Posted on August 6, 2020

News Release Press release: Over Seventy Organizations Call for Ban on Police Street Checks

Posted on July 6, 2020

News Release Press Release: Rights Groups Release OPCC Letter Calling into Question Street Checks Review

Posted on June 25, 2020

News Release Press Release: One Decade Later, Father of Police Shooting Says “Nothing Has Changed”

Posted on June 17, 2020

News Release Organizations Call on Mayor Kennedy Stewart to Implement Immediate Ban on Racist Police Street Checks in Vancouver

Posted on June 11, 2020

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Canada Border Services Agency officers investigated for hundreds of misconduct complaints

Posted on May 12, 2020

News Release PRESS RELEASE: Wet’suwet’en, BCCLA, and UBCIC Release Explosive Letter Revealing BC Solicitor General Authorizing RCMP Deployment, Contradicting Public Statements

Posted on March 6, 2020

News Release MEDIA ADVISORY OF PRESS CONFERENCE: Wet’suwet’en, BCCLA and UBCIC Release CRCC Chairperson Response Regarding RCMP Exclusion Zone

Posted on February 19, 2020

News Release Civil Liberties and Human Rights Complainants Oppose VPD Street Check Recommendations; Disagree with Key Findings of Street Check Review

Posted on February 18, 2020

News Release PRESS RELEASE: BCCLA and UBCIC Highly Alarmed at Increasing Police Powers in Wet’suwet’en; File Complaint about RCMP Exclusion Zone

Posted on February 10, 2020

News Release MEDIA ADVISORY OF PRESS CONFERENCE: Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Leadership, BCCLA, UBCIC and Legal Coalition file complaint about RCMP Checkpoint and Exclusion Zone

Posted on January 29, 2020

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