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.
Dictates what courses of study college students could choose to pursue, prohibiting fields of study involving race and gender studies.
HB 1557/SB 1834 is a government censorship bill that would ban classroom discussions related to sexual orientation and gender identity in schools. It would silence students from speaking about their LGBTQ+...
SB148 / HB7 would censor protected speech in workplaces and classrooms by banning teaching about systemic racism and gender and race discrimination. It also removes instruction on mental and emotional...
In August 2021, newborn Ava died in the Alachua County Jail after her mother’s pleas for medical care went ignored. “Ava’s Law” would require judges to provide pregnant women an opportunity to defer...