Welcome to the Sarasota/Manatee/DeSoto Chapter

The Sarasota Chapter of the ACLU serves Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties. With over 2,000 members, we are one of the largest ACLU chapters in Florida.

The ACLU is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. We are neither liberal nor conservative, Republican nor Democrat -- and we welcome everyone to join us in our constant fight for individual rights.

To get help from the ACLU, your personal or political beliefs do not matter -- we have fought for the rights of people ranging from Rush Limbaugh to Michael Schiavo to elementary school parents in Miami outraged that books were being arbitrarily banned from their children's schools.

Our only mission is to keep the promise of the Bill of Rights alive for every American.

If you live elsewhere in Florida and need to contact your local ACLU Chapter,
or ACLU state headquarters, please go to our main website at www.aclufl.org.

(Or just click on the blue words "ACLU OF FLORIDA" at the bottom of the column to the left.)