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President Joe Biden announced today that he will pardon people with federal convictions of simple marijuana possession. Thousands of people will have their convictions pardoned as a result.
NEW ORLEANS — Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a 2021 District Court ruling that the 2012 DACA Memo is unlawful – an order that immediately halted grants for first-time applicants.
As Floridians across the state continue to deal with the aftermath of this catastrophic hurricane, please know that the ACLU of Florida is here with you and thinking of you, especially those in Southwest Florida who bore the brunt of the storm's devastation.
The lawsuit targets the Baker County Sheriff’s Office, which operates an infamous detention center with a long history of human rights violations
On September 16, ACLU of Florida, SPLC, and the Harvard Election Law Clinic participated in oral arguments for a preliminary injunction motion to halt use of Jacksonville’s City Council and School Board maps for the 2023 and 2024 elections.
The complaint cites new and extensive evidence of medical neglect and first-hand accounts of abuse from people detained at the Baker County Detention Center