During every Florida Legislative Session, the ACLU of Florida works to accomplish positive reforms for civil liberties and civil rights and defend every Floridians' rights. Our legislative priorities this year cover a broad array of civil liberties issues including, criminal justice reform, LGBT rights, immigrant's rights, reproductive rights, religious liberty, and voting rights.
Ends driver license suspensions for failure to pay court fees and fine; revises payment plan and inability to pay determinations.
Increasing the number of sentence points below which the court is prohibited from imposing a state prison sentence for certain offenders and is instead required to impose a nonstate prison sanction.
Allows a judge to exercise discretion to depart from the strict mandatory sentence under certain circumstances; increases drug weight thresholds for certain offenses; allows for incarcerated individual to...
Retroactively applying recent beneficial reforms to mandatory sentences for aggravated assault and certain drug trafficking offenses. Providing resentencing for persons who committed certain offenses before...
Authorizing the resentencing and release of certain nonviolent offenders under the age of 25 who meet certain criteria; precluding eligibility for a sentence review for young adult offenders who previously...