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FJI and other advocacy organizations urge local governments to avoid criminalizing homelessness in response to new state law
April 8, 2025 Today, Southern Legal Counsel, the National Homelessness Law Center, the Southern Poverty Law center, and the Florida Justice Institute advocated for change by sending letters to public officials in 21 cities and counties urging the use of non-punitive measures as they implement a statewide camping restriction that was passed
FJI joins letter urging attorney general to protect the legal profession and equal justice under law for all people.
March 28, 2025 FJI has signed on to the below letter, which represents a broad coalition of lawyers, legal organizations, law schools, law firms, and other throughout the legal community and across the ideological spectrum, urging the Attorney General to defend the rule of law and the legal profession against
FJI Urges Passage of the Tristin Murphy Act
March 6, 2025 March 6, 2025; MIAMI/TALLAHASSEE, FL. The Florida Justice Institute (FJI), a nonprofit civil rights organization, expresses its strong support for the Tristin Murphy Act (SB 168), and urges the Legislature to pass it. The Act creates a mental health diversion program that would allow people arrested for
FJI Suit Against Lake City Anti-Solicitation Successfully Resolved with Repeal and Payment
November 25, 2024 Following FJI’s lawsuit against a Lake City ordinance that prohibited standing, soliciting, or leafletting at certain intersections, the City repealed the ordinance and the case has been resolved with the acceptance of a $75,000 offer of judgment. FJI’s lawsuit, brought on behalf of the nonprofit Cosac Foundation,
FJI Files Lawsuit Over Sweltering Heat at South Florida Prison
Florida Justice Institute (FJI) filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) on behalf of those incarcerated at Dade Correctional Institution (Dade CI), seeking relief from the sweltering and oppressive heat that all incarcerated people must suffer through each summer.
FJI and SLC File Lawsuit Challenging St. Johns County Ordinance that Criminalizes Requests for Help
Florida-based legal aid organizations Southern Legal Counsel (SLC) and Florida Justice Institute (FJI) today filed a federal lawsuit challenging a St. Johns County ordinance passed in May 2023 in an effort to stop panhandling. The lawsuit, filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville