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Settlement Reached to Protect First Amendment Rights at Miami Seaquarium

Lawsuit brought by ACLU on behalf of 3 demonstrators had challenged policy limiting speech on county sidewalks outside the marine mammal park

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 21, 2015

September 21, 2015

ACLU Statement on Pensacola City Council Vote to Workshop Proposed Human Rights Ordinance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - September 17, 2015
CONTACT: ACLU of Florida Media Office, media@aclufl.org, (786) 363-2737

September 18, 2015

ACLU to Appeal Decision in Federal Lawsuit over Lake County, Florida Middle School Gay-Straight Alliance

Appeal latest step in years-long fight over school district preventing students from establishing the anti-bullying club on campus

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 17, 2015

September 17, 2015

With Force-Feedings Ordered, ACLU Calls for End to Disparate Policies for People Seeking Asylum and Mistreatment of Hunger-Striking Detainees in Florida ICE Facility

At least 11 hunger-striking men, many of them asylum-seekers who should be have been released on parole, have been retaliated against by ICE officials for protesting unfair detention; Judge’s order to insert feeding tubes for 3 men issued earlier today

September 11, 2015

ACLU of Florida Comment on Tampa City Council Debate over Proposed Civilian Review Panel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 3, 2015
CONTACT: ACLU of Florida Media Office, media@aclufl.org, (786) 363-2737

September 3, 2015

ACLU of Florida and CAIR Florida File Lawsuit Challenging Policy Denying Religious Meals to Muslim Inmates at Miami-Dade Jails

Lawsuit states that policy which explicitly singles out Muslim inmates to be denied meals conforming to religious requirements violates detainees’ right to free exercise of religion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 3, 2015

September 3, 2015