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By Martha Jackovics, Beach Peanuts

Despite all the legislation from last year's session of the Florida Legislature aimed at blocking abortions in the state, no abortion bills were passed in the 2012 session, but not for lack of trying. Ten anti-abortion bills were introduced this year, compared to 18 bills introduced last year.

Considering the push against women's health issues and abortion throughout the country in states controlled by Republicans, this was a win for women's health in Florida.

Here at the ACLU of Florida, we produce a lot of resources to help people in Florida know their rights. In this cartoon, it looks like Governor Rick Scott has decided to do our job for us with the state's new election laws.

By Peter Schorsch, Executive Editor, SaintPetersBlog

For a moment there, Florida progressives had a winning strategy to defeat several ballot initiatives to be decided this November.

Some days, it can be lonely being an ACLU lawyer. That’s particularly true in Florida, where we’ve been challenging a slew of laws that violate Floridians' Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.

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This cartoon helps capture the struggle between Governor Scott and the state of Florida and the ACLU of Florida over drug testing.
The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from being subjected to a government search without reasonable suspicion. It’s one of the core tenets of our justice system.
That’s why the ACLU of Florida has fought so hard to stop the suspicionless drug testing of Floridians being pushed by Governor Scott and the Legislature. In the past year they have passed laws and issued orders that would subject tens of thousands of Floridians to government drug testing.

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