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Florida Rights Restoration Coalition

Desmond Meade: Next up for Rights Restoration group is “Ban the Box”

In 2018, Desmond Meade helped helped shepherd through passage of Florida's Amendment 4, which requires automatic restoration of voting rights for felons who complete their sentences. In September, he won a Genius Grant from the...

Voting rights group helps clear path for more than 800 felons to register to vote

Members of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition gathered in front of the Edgecomb Courthouse in Tampa Monday to announce a $1.5 million donation to the Hillsborough County Clerk of Courts aimed at covering fines and...
Tampa Tiger Bay rights restoration forum

State Attorney calls Florida’s ex-felon rights process a “poll tax”

If supporters can gather another 700,000 certified signatures by February 1, Floridians will vote in November of 2018 whether to grant most ex-felons their civil rights, including the right to vote; on Friday the Tampa...
Sean Shaw supports felon rights restoration

Ex-felon rights restoration clinic in Tampa Saturday

After an ex-felon has served his time in Florida, his civil rights are not automatically restored; unlike most states, Florida keeps thousands of ex-felons from voting and a from number of other basic citizenship rights....

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