June 15th launched a new and hope-filled week in Jacksonville as two astonishing actions — one federal and one local — took effect that significantly expand civil rights to LGBTQ people in our country and in our community. In an historic...
Sherry MagillCity council members heard public comment on Tuesday evening on a bill that expands protections under Jacksonville’s human rights ordinance to LGBTQ persons. Florida’s First District Court of Appeal recently struck down Jacksonville’s Human...
JaxLookout recently reported on Jacksonville’s Human Rights Ordinance (HRO Redux) and the protections for LGBT+ people that were overturned by the State of Florida’s First District Court of Appeal earlier this month. The Court of Appeal decision was...
HRO: Then and Now Beginning in 2012 many of Jacksonville’s civic and business leaders, clergy and citizens worked together to expand protections under the City’s Human Rights Ordinance (HRO) to include sexual orientation and gender identity. For...
Gregory NewburnIn 1999, the Florida Legislature reimposed mandatory minimum sentences for drug trafficking after repealing most of those same laws in 1993. Under the 1999 law, “trafficking” included possession or sale of controlled substances above some...
Yesterday, the Florida Times-Union editorial called for local elected leaders to do the obvious in historic downtown, Jacksonville’s Northbank. TU’s editors lament one-way streets, narrow sidewalks, coin-operated parking meters, the lack of shade...
Jacksonville FL, December 3, 20018 – City council defeated a transparency bill 16-3 at its November 27th Tuesday night meeting. Introduced by At-large member Anna Brosche, the bill called for: posting email and text messages between lobbyists and...