As Florida officials continue resisting efforts to significantly reduce the prison population and have been slow to publicly reveal their plans for handling a coronavirus outbreak in prisons, the 28th person incarcerated in the state has died from COVID-19.

State actors need to protect people engaging in their First Amendment rights.

Organization calls for transparency around reporting COVID-19 related deaths, medical quarantine and testing

New database identifies potentially eligible voters under SB7066; ACLU partners will use it as a part of their voter registration and outreach efforts to returning citizens

There are roughly 95,000 people now incarcerated in Florida and many prisons have dealt with serious overcrowding issues that make it practically impossible to practice social distancing. The high population creates both a public health and humanitarian crisis if an outbreak occurs. 

Civil rights group releases new online voter guide, ACLU Justice Voter, with positions on immigrants’ rights, mass incarceration, and voting access

Trial outcome will impact the right to vote for hundreds of thousands of Floridians

Today is a sad day for our state’s democracy. Instead of embracing our state’s proud history of citizen-led ballot initiatives, state politicians have stifled the ability for Floridians to directly participate in our democracy by passing and signing this bill into law.