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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
May 21, 2025 The Florida Justice Institute (FJI), a nonprofit civil rights litigation and advocacy organization, and the law firm […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Florida Justice Institute (FJI) have filed federal and state suits challenging the Florida Department of […]
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 […]
News Releases
May 7, 2025 MIAMI— Florida Justice Institute, together with other civil rights groups, have objected for a second time to […]
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 […]
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 […]