Press Releases

Coalition of Civil Rights and Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Issue a Statewide Travel Alert in Florida

Travel alert forewarns increased likelihood of racial profiling, unjust detention, and deportation, if anti-immigrant family separation bills become Florida law

Latest Findings Outline Sentencing Reform as Pathway to Reducing Incarceration Rates in Florida

Findings from report identify Florida’s current cap on gain time as one of the primary drivers of the state’s prison population

ACLU of Florida Statement on Senate Bill Restricting Amendment 4

“What Florida voters intended is already clear. Amendment 4 is self-executing. We urge lawmakers to uphold the will of Florida voters, stand for second chances and to withdraw this restrictive bill.”

ACLU Report Reveals Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) May Have Targeted Dozens–If Not Hundreds–of U.S. Citizens in Miami in the Last Two Years

Based on Miami-Dade County records, the report finds widespread errors by ICE that resulted in illegal detentions of U.S. citizens.

ACLU of Florida Statement on House Bill Restricting Amendment 4

This legislation will maintain vestiges of Florida's Jim Crow history and undermine the will of Florida's electorate that voted for second chances.

ACLU of Florida responds to the verdict against Nouman Raja in Corey Jones Shooting

Today, a jury found Nouman Raja, a former police officer, guilty of manslaughter and attempted first-degree murder for fatally shooting Corey Jones, a Black musician, in West Palm Beach in 2015.