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.
Citing this act as the "Florida Competitive Workforce Act"; adding sexual orientation and gender identity as impermissible grounds for discrimination in public lodging establishments and public food service establishments; providing an exception for constitutionally protected free exercise of rel
Rejects and condemns white nationalism and white supremacy as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to values that define people of Florida and United States.
Rejects and condemns white nationalism and white supremacy as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to values that define people of Florida and United States.
Requiring taxpayer money be used to teach the Bible in public schools; blurring the separation of church and state; requiring schools offer classes in the Bible and Judeo-Studies, but not in other religions.
Requiring taxpayer money be used to teach the Bible in public schools; blurring the separation of church and state; requiring schools offer classes in the Bible and Judeo-Studies, but not in other religions.
Florida law already has some of the strictest limitations in the nation regarding citizens’ ability to propose amendments to the state’s constitution.