A legal challenge to Miami-Dade County’s policy of arresting and jailing people for ICE upon request has survived multiple motions to dismiss filed by both the county and the federal government.

“The passage of Amendment 6 is a threat to the balance of the rights of all parties in a criminal case that is necessary to ensure that innocent individuals are not wrongly convicted. Florida voters took an important step toward meaningful criminal justice reform with the passage of Amendment 11.”

Today is a new day in Florida, a new day in America, and a new day for 1.4 million Floridians.

Younger voters and racial and ethnic minority voters are much more likely to cast vote-by-mail ballots that are rejected and are less likely to have their VBM ballots cured

The ACLU, ACLU of Florida and Legal Services of Greater Miami filed a motion in lawsuit challenging Miami-Dade County’s onerous residence restrictions and its practice of forcing individuals into homelessness

Today a coalition of Florida civil rights and legal groups, in a national campaign supported by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, sent letters to the following local governments demanding they repeal their ban on panhandling

“We deserve a census that counts everyone fairly.”

Federal court found it unconstitutional to deny social transition as part of medically necessary care for a transgender inmate