User:IanWright/Texas Civil Rights Project

The Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) is a non-profit organization whose stated mission is to promote: "racial, social, and economic justice through education and litigation."

Newborn babies' blood samples
TCRP sued the Texas Department of State Health Services (TXDSHS) in March 2009 to expand parental rights regarding the collection of blood samples from every newborn baby in Texas. Subsequently, the suit was settled on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009, with TXDSHS agreeing to destroy more than 5 million blood samples collected without parental consent before May 29, 2009.

Texas Judge Sharon Keller
TCRP, representing Doreen Anderson, the daughter of executed Texas prisoner Michael Wayne Richard, requested on Nov. 5, 2009, that a federal lawsuit against Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals be reopened in light of alleged contradictory statements Keller made in two separate court appearances.