The DREAM’s Alive and Well in Florida
By Maria Rodriguez, Executive Director, Florida Immigrant Coalition Today’s signing of a Florida law allowing young undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizen children of immigrant parents to pay the...
View ArticleFederal Court in Miami Rules on One of the Major Outstanding Constitutional...
By Nate Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project In a tremendous step forward for our right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment, the Eleventh Circuit Court of...
View ArticleInternal Police Emails Show Efforts to Hide Use of Cell Phone Tracking
By Maria Kayanan Associate Legal Director, ACLU of Florida As we suspected, local law enforcement officials are borrowing cell phone tracking devices known as “stingrays” from the U.S. Marshals...
View ArticleTo Fix Escambia County’s Jail, We Have to Fix the System
Sara Latshaw North Florida Regional Director, ACLU of Florida This blog post originally appeared as an op-ed in the Pensacola News-Journal. Oftentimes, it takes a tragedy to draw our attention to...
View ArticleThe Continued Push for LGBT Rights in the South and Beyond
Daniel Tilley Staff Attorney, ACLU of Florida This post originally appeared on the American Constitution Society blog. By now it is cliché to observe that the advancements in equality for the lesbian,...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End for Marriage Discrimination in Florida
Howard Simon Executive Director, ACLU of Florida Prompted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the ACLU’s case on behalf of Edie Windsor that struck down the heart of the Defense of Marriage Act...
View ArticleFerguson is Everytown, U.S.A.
By Nusrat Choudhury, Staff Attorney, ACLU Racial Justice Program This post originally appeared on ACLU National’s Blog of Rights The tragic killing of college-bound teenager Michael Brown has raised...
View ArticleGetting It Dead Wrong for 30 Years
By Cassandra Stubbs, Director, ACLU Capital Punishment Project This post originally appeared on ACLU’s National Blog of Rights. According to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Henry Lee McCollum...
View ArticleCops as Soldiers: Could Ferguson’s Military Assault Tactics be Used Here in...
Michelle Richardson Director of Public Policy The tragic shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has raised many questions about how law enforcement treats the very citizens it is supposed to...
View ArticleHRO Passes Unanimously in Hillsbourough County
By a unanimous vote, Hillsborough has become the latest county in Florida to expand anti-discrimination protections to the LGBT community. The historic vote to add sexual orientation and gender...
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