The Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project is housed at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. CLEAR primarily aims to address the unmet legal needs of Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and other communities in the New York City area that are particularly affected by national security and counterterrorism policies and practices.
Our work is defined by our relationships with communities and grassroots organizations whose members wish to shape and respond to national security and counterterrorism policies and practices affecting them. CLEAR’s community-oriented approach combines legal representation with other services directed at satisfying the fuller range of community concerns.
Since the project’s inception in 2009, CLEAR has:
I am originally from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, or Yemen and I do not have a U.S. passport: I have… I am inside the U.S. I am outside the U.S. A U.S. visa (for example, a B-1 business visa, a B-2 tourist visa, a K-1 fiancé visa, an E-1 employer- sponsored visa)1 Do […]
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Countless members of Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and other communities in New York City and beyond are seeing their civil liberties and human rights undermined by post-9/11 law enforcement policies and practices.
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The Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project is housed at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. CLEAR primarily aims to address the unmet legal needs of Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and other communities in the New York City area that are particularly affected by national security and counterterrorism policies […]
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