Constitutional rights do not end at the schoolhouse doors. The law can be complex and vague, especially with regards to the rights of young people, but students and teens should know their rights!
An analysis of Florida’s experiment with school policing illustrates that the school policing mandate has only increased negative outcomes for our students.
While many of the struggles facing election administrators during this public health crisis seem unprecedented, they each represent an opportunity to refine local policies and practices to ensure every Floridian has the opportunity to vote – and to have that vote count.
61 days. That’s how long the 2019 Florida Legislative Session lasted, and by the time it was over, the Florida Legislature undid years of progress on civil liberties and civil rights.
Miami-Dade County’s records show that between February 2017 and February 2019, ICE sent the jail 420 detainer requests for people listed as U.S. citizens, only to later cancel 83 of those requests—evidently because the agency determined, after the fact, that its targets were in fact U.S. citizens.