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Stay in-the-know with the latest developments at FJI through our Newsroom
Below, you’ll find links to media coverage of our work, including news articles, original videos, FJI news releases and radio or podcast episodes. Explore how FJI’s impactful advocacy and litigation efforts are making headlines and advancing justice.
Press Coverage
By Stefania Palma | April 6, 2025Financial Times US advocacy groups and small legal offices fear Big Law will retreat […]
November 25, 2024 Following FJI’s lawsuit against a Lake City ordinance that prohibited standing, soliciting, or leafletting at certain intersections, […]
By KATE PAYNE | November 1, 2024Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It was the hottest September in more than […]
By CBS/News Service of Florida | November 1, 2024CBS Miami TALLAHASSEE — Accusing the state of “deliberate indifference,” a federal lawsuit […]
By Elena Barrera | October 31, 2024Tallahassee Democrat A new lawsuit is aiming for a big chill. After what was […]
By Minnah Arshad | October 31, 2024USA Today Stifling heat at a Miami-area concrete prison without air conditioning contributed to […]
News Releases
April 8, 2025 Today, Southern Legal Counsel, the National Homelessness Law Center, the Southern Poverty Law center, and the Florida Justice Institute […]
March 28, 2025 FJI has signed on to the below letter, which represents a broad coalition of lawyers, legal organizations, […]
March 6, 2025 March 6, 2025; MIAMI/TALLAHASSEE, FL. The Florida Justice Institute (FJI), a nonprofit civil rights organization, expresses its […]
September 9, 2024 FJI has reached a settlement with Columbia County, resolving its lawsuit against the ordinance which prohibited solicitation […]
February 29, 2024 MIAMI— The Florida Justice Institute (FJI), a nonprofit civil rights litigation and advocacy organization, has reached a […]
Blogs
April 22, 2025— As local governments grapple with enforcement of a new state law banning people from sleeping in public spaces, […]
Although people are sent to prison as punishment for a crime, as human beings they are still entitled to adequate […]
We want to share with you a story of one of the individuals we were able to help through our […]
Elmer Williams was a 32-year-old father when he was sentenced to 40 years in prison for a nonviolent burglary. Now […]