Know Your Rights,
Know Your Resources.
Know Your Rights at Arrest: Why and how to invoke your rights during a police encounter.
FDLA’s Know Your Rights multimedia peer education campaigns conduct street outreach, workshops, leadership development, and produce multimedia educational materials to build the hope, skills, and knowledge necessary for people to access their constitutional rights when in contact with police.
FDLA trains and supports youth, parents, law students, attorneys, and partner organizations in specific Chicago communities to in turn train their own constituents.
Our ever-expanding geographic areas of focus for providing community members with Know Your Rights knowledge is currently Englewood, Oakland, Bronzeville, North Lawndale, Austin, Roseland, South Shore, Kenwood, South Chicago, Grand Crossing, Auburn Gresham, West Englewood, Homan Square, Woodlawn, Washington Park, and Garfield Park. However, we want to equip all Chicagoans with the power of knowing their rights when confronted by the police.
Upcoming KYR Community Workshops
Attend a Know Your Rights workshop for yourself, your family and friends, your neighbors, your office, your group, and more. Simply find a date and time that works best for you and join one of our (currently virtual) Know Your Rights workshops! Use the calendar below to see upcoming workshops and click on the date to access and view the event details and Zoom link.
Contact us to request a Know Your Rights workshop.
Can’t make one of our current virtual workshop offerings for your group or organization? We can come to you!
Fill out the form to the right with your name (or name of contact person at your organization), email, and under “message” please put the name of your group/organization, how many people will be attending, and what date/time you hope to schedule a workshop.
Order Know Your Rights Materials.
Order Know Your Rights Materials (wallet cards, flyers, and other educational literature) to distribute to your neighborhood block, school, community center, congregation, or other.