Due to COVID-19, workshops are being held virtually, with some in-person options available. To schedule your training or receive instructions for hosting and attending a virtual or in-person workshop, please fill out the request form below.
The NYCLU offers numerous trainings and workshops to New Yorkers on a variety of civil liberties and civil rights issues. These sessions are interactive and give participants the opportunity to share their experiences, voice concerns, and ask questions. Below is a list of current trainings and workshops by topic:
Police Accountability and Criminal Justice Reform
Immigration
Education and school environment reform
Reproductive Rights
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Know Your Rights: What to do if stopped by police This training covers civilian-police interactions on the street, in your car, and at home. The training focuses on Fourth Amendment rights regarding search and seizure and provides practical advice for staying safe and calm through a police encounter while retaining the full extent of your rights. This training is 1.5 hours long and is appropriate for groups of 10-50 youth and adults.
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Know Your Rights: Digital Privacy and Technology This interactive workshop for students and community members focuses on how existing privacy laws apply to New Yorkers in the digital age. We all use our mobile phones and the Internet to connect, communicate, work, manage our finances, and investigate information involving sensitive topics such as politics and medicine. Yet law enforcement agencies are increasingly using New York’s outdated privacy laws to turn mobile phones into tracking devices and access sensitive digital information without proper oversight. This workshop is 50 minutes long and is appropriate for groups of 15-30 people.
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Know Your Rights: What to do if you are suspended This interactive workshop addresses the rights of students in New York City public high schools. Students want to know how to reduce out-of-school suspensions. The presentation will focus on state and federal due process rights when students are suspended. The workshop will include several activities that emphasize students’ rights, including the right to be notified of the suspension, the right to have an attorney or advocate represent the student at the suspension hearing, and that students must receive substantially equivalent alternative instruction during suspension. This workshop is 45 minutes long and is appropriate for groups of 15-30 students. All participants will receive a copy of the NYCLU’s Know Your Rights if Suspended pamphlet, written for young people.
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Know Your Rights: Interacting with Police at School This training covers the rights of New York City public school students when school safety agents and police officers are on school grounds. The training focuses on students’ Fourth Amendment rights when searched by school safety agents and details the circumstances under which students or their belongings may or may not be searched. It also covers backpack searches, locker searches, metal detector scans, questioning by school safety agents, arrests on school grounds, and how to file a complaint against an abusive school safety agent or police officer. This training is one hour long and is appropriate for groups of 20-50 youth and adults. All training participants will receive a palm card to know their rights regarding police at school.
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Know Your Rights: What to do if stopped by Police/Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Customs and Border Protection This training informs legal and undocumented New York immigrants of their rights when interacting with both immigration officials and police. The training covers the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, the right to proof of warrant before a search, and the right of undocumented immigrants to withhold identity documents. It also suggests best practices for immigrants if stopped by police, state police, Customs and Border Protection agents, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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Teens, Health Care, and the Law: An Overview (Youth) This interactive training educates young people about their right to confidential health care in New York. Participants will discuss mental health care, substance abuse treatment, emergency medical care, and the rights of pregnant and parenting students to attend school. This workshop can be tailored for groups of 10 to 100 young people and lasts 40 to 90 minutes. Each training participant will receive a “Should I Tell My Parents? Your Right to Sexual Health Services” reference card and a “Rights of Pregnant and Parenting Teens” reference card.
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Know Your Rights: LGBTQ Youth in Schools This training covers the rights of LGBTQ students and the obligations of public schools to keep young people safe. This includes issues such as harassment, GSA, school events such as prom, and freedom of speech and expression. This training is appropriate for groups of 5 to 50 youth and/or adults. Each training participant receives information to know their rights. This training can be customized as a more general LGBTQ awareness training or to focus specifically on gender and transgender issues.
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Know Your Rights: Protests and Demonstrations This training informs New Yorkers of the ground rules regarding their rights to protest on New York City’s public sidewalks, parks and streets. The training covers the right to distribute fliers and handbills, hold press conferences, demonstrations and rallies, and march on public sidewalks and streets.
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Lobbying 101 — Everything you need to know about lobbying for social justice This training covers techniques and strategies for effective legislative advocacy with officeholders and policymakers at all levels. Participants will learn how to prepare for a lobbying visit to an officeholder, the best tools to frame arguments, how to connect a lobbying visit to legislative action, and how to follow up after a lobbying visit to ensure a productive outcome. Training can focus on general lobbying techniques or a specific NYCLU legislative or policy issue. This training is appropriate for groups of 5-50 youth and adults.
SCHEDULE TRAINING Teens, Healthcare, and the Law: An Overview (Providers) This interactive training provides an overview of minors’ rights to confidential medical care in New York. Using scenarios common to youth service providers, the presentation will discuss situations that may jeopardize access to reproductive health care, mental health care, substance abuse treatment, emergency care, and medical care for minors. If appropriate, training can include the right of students to remain in school during pregnancy or parenting. This presentation requires a minimum of 20 attendees, with a suggested facilitation time of 90 minutes. Reimbursement may be required for travel outside of New York City or outside of business hours.
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