Miami Herald: America needs the Voting Rights Act
“The tactics of voter suppression have changed since the enactment of the Voting Rights Act. It is less common that people of color face violence or are murdered when they try to exercise their...
View ArticleWSVN: War on Crime
“When they become more like soldiers than like the traditional officers that patrol our cities, our civil rights and our civil liberties are eroded.” – Maria Kayanan, ACLU of Florida Associate Legal...
View ArticleFlorida Times-Union: People hate the ACLU until they need it.
“America is a promise, and the ACLU works to make sure that promise is kept.” Read more here.
View ArticleSports Blog Nation: FAU drops GEO Group stadium deal amid controversy: Say...
“Not only was GEO Group a company that explicitly makes money off of incarcerating people, a moral quandary of its own, it’s drawn criticism within that industry for several alleged incidents of...
View ArticleSports Illustrated: Is that enough money to still call it Owlcatraz?
“When people force the private prison industry to defend its record, companies like GEO can no longer win with lobbyists, money and lies. The students and faculty at the university can now breathe a...
View ArticleUSA Today: Prison operator withdraws naming rights offer for FAU stadium
“The university’s decision was heavily protested on campus, with groups like the Stop Owlcatraz Coalition pointing out GEO Group’s spotty track record of investigations, violations and fines at several...
View ArticleSun Sentinel: Jewish divorce laws threatened in Tallahassee
“Legislation on a fast track in Tallahassee threatens to derail Florida’s role as an international trade hub by complicating and destabilizing the personal and commercial lives of foreign nationals...
View ArticleSun Sentinel: FAU accused of retaliating against GEO protestors
“The university shouldn’t be intimidating these students, it should be thanking them for sparing the university from embarrassment” surrounding the partnership, said Howard Simon, executive director of...
View ArticlePalm Beach Post: FAU summons 7 ‘Stop Owlcatraz’ protesters to dean’s office
“After several weeks of bad publicity for both parties, FAU announced Monday that GEO had asked to be released from the pledge and the university had agreed. The students, who had named their protest...
View ArticleFlorida Courier: This Mothers’ Day, I will think of Mary Graham
by Julie Ebenstein, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Florida “In 2006, Ms. Graham’s son, Terrance, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his first offense, an armed burglary that...
View ArticleWTSP: Bartow ‘bottle bomb girl’ Kiera Wilmot receives support
“They know she did this in school, yes. But there was no harm done. She didn’t intend to cause any harm. As the school indicated, this is a good student. She has not gotten into any trouble in the...
View ArticleMiami New Times: ACLU Hopes to Spur Immigration Change with #IamHere Mural in...
“What we’re trying to do is have people understand that real people are affected and real families are affected by immigration reform. It’s not a nameless, faceless issue. There are real family...
View ArticleArt Slant: Immigrants’ Fight: Ruben Ubiera’s #IamHere Mural Unveiled
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View ArticleGay rights coalition: Now is not the right time to put same-sex marriage on...
“I don’t want to build up any false expectations that it would be good to run back to the ballot right now, or that it would be good to think that we should file a lawsuit anytime until the hearts and...
View ArticleDomestic partnership registry in sight
Pensacola gives preliminary nod to expand civil rights for unmarried couples Sara Latshaw, regional director for the American Civil Liberties Union, has been lobbying local officials for weeks to set...
View ArticleElectronic license plate readers help solve crimes in Florida
“The real problem is what happens with that data that they collected about you,” said Florida ACLU spokesman Baylor Johnson. “Who then has access to that data? “Any law enforcement technology,...
View ArticleMiami’s homeless could lose some rights if judge agrees with settlement
Benjamin Waxman, an attorney who worked with the ACLU and negotiated the original 1998 settlement, said the recent agreement should give the city the ability to eliminate chronic homelessness. The...
View ArticleThe Slow Demise of Capital Punishment
“As it becomes less frequent, the death penalty also becomes more limited to an extremely small slice of the country, and therefore all the more arbitrary in its application. All 80 death sentences in...
View ArticleTamils’ Smuggling Journey to U.S. Leads to Longer Ordeal: 3 Years of Detention
“Five Sri Lankan men left hometowns reeling from the remnants of a ruthless civil war and embarked on a monthslong human-smuggling journey that spanned seven countries. They each paid $55,000 for a...
View ArticleACLU to Miami-Dade County: Begin drawing new precincts right away
“Indeed, given the volume of evidence that re-precincting would make our elections fairer and make it easier for people to cast their ballots, inaction on this matter could result in voters in some...
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