The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization and freedom's watchdog in the Sunshine State.
Florida's 2020 legislative session begins January 14, 2020, and ends sixty-days later March 13, 2020. During this legislative session, we will work on a broad range of issues including, but not limited to: criminal justice, free speech, reproductive freedom, immigrants’ rights, and LGBTQ+ rights.
The ACLU of Florida is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to protecting and strengthening the civil rights and liberties of all Floridians. As a nonprofit membership organization with over 130,000 members and supporters in Florida and more than 1.6 million supporters nationwide, we advance this mission through litigation, advocacy, and education. Visit our webpage to read about our 2020 legislative priorities.
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We are monitoring hundreds of bills that span the breadth of the ACLU’s policy concerns. Below is a representative sample of several of the bills that have been filed that we will be actively working on throughout this legislative session. The list includes bills that we will proactively attempt to pass and those that we will actively defend against. This list is not all-inclusive, and instead is a representative sample of bills that either pose significant threats to civil rights and civil liberties, or that create opportunities to advance constitutional and civil rights.
Deletes current warrant requirement for use of drones to collect evidence at a crime scene and allows law enforcement to use drone technology to surveil any gathering of over 50 people.
Prohibiting children younger than 12 from being adjudicated delinquent, arrested, or charged with a crime.
Removes eligibility requirements relating to person's conduct before person's wrongful conviction and incarceration.
Revising requirements for the uniform statewide voter registration application and the acceptance of such applications.
Consistent with Amendment 4, restores voting rights without additional requirement of full payment of fees and fines.
Forces all Florida employers to use the error prone E-Verify database to check the immigration status of all new employees, and provides penalties and loss of license for noncompliance.