Category: Civil Rights
Judge orders Trump Administration to reinstate thousands of fired government workers
Judge ruled that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) lacked the authority to direct these terminations and called the administration’s justification based on performance “a lie.”
Corrections Officer charged with child abuse after battering 15-year-old inmate
On March 13, Florida’s Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office announced that their patrol deputies arrested and charged a Department of Juvenile Justice Detention Officer with child abuse after that officer allegedly […]
30 youth correctional officers charged with child abuse and endangerment for allowing detainee ‘gladiator fights’
The officers stood by and watched as youth under their care, some as young as 12, were forced to fight
FBI agents, forced to complete Trump questionnaire on Capitol Riot investigations, sue Justice Department
Additionally, a coalition of 20 State Attorneys General want to hear from Kash Patel regarding the politically motivated firings at the FBI and efforts to compile a list of agents involved in investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
Trump pardons U.S. Capitol rioters, including those convicted of violent crimes and felonies
His pardons included those who had been convicted of assaulting police officers, obstructing law enforcement, and other serious offenses, He also commuted prison sentences for key members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys militia groups.
Justice Department sues Houston County, Georgia, for violating Black voters’ rights
Lawsuit alleges that the County’s method of electing county commissioners discriminates against Black voters and Black candidates for office
Teacher who catfished students in GA, MD, and MS for sexually explicit images sentenced to 33 years in prison
Michael Dendy has been teaching since 2016 and posing as either a teen boy or girl online to get his students to send him sexually explicit pics
Twelve Salisbury University students in Maryland charged in hate crime assault of gay man
One of the students posed as a 16-year-old on Grindr and lured the man to an off-campus apartment where the group allegedly held him captive and severely beat him
FL prisoners file federal lawsuit accusing state of “deliberate indifference” due to sweltering heat in prison cells
In the 2020s, the South Florida heat index exceeded 100°F for hundreds of hours per year—triple the number from decades ago. In 2024, the heat index in Miami Dade exceeded 103℉ for a full 154 hours.
Voting resources now available for those adversely affected by recent hurricanes
New government webpage provides central hub to help people in affected areas to vote
