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The "Statewide Call to Courage" series will honor the organization's long history of defending civil liberties while calling on Floridians to confront modern-day challenges.

Calling it "exactly the kind of disaster that Congress took pains to avoid," attorneys for immigrants held at a detention center in the Everglades filed a lawsuit alleging Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration lacks the authority to run the facility.

Although a federal judge in Miami ordered their case be moved to another Florida district, the ACLU and other plaintiffs suing the controversial migrant detention facility over access to attorneys insist they'll win the litigation - and that they have already been handed "an important victory."

“[The government] is running roughshod over the most basic constitutional rights that people have when they are in government custody,” Eunice Cho, senior counsel with the ACLU’s National Prison Project, told WPLG 10’s “This Week in South Florida” as a federal judge in Miami prepares to hear challenges to the detention center this week.

A federal judge said he wants more clarity on "who is running the show" at Alligator Alcatraz, following a lawsuit over attorney access to clients detained at the immigration detention center in the Everglades. The lawsuit filed on July 16 says those held at Alligator Alcatraz are unable to talk to their lawyers.

A class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that people held at the immigrant-detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” are being prevented from having access to lawyers and “effectively have no way to contest their detention.”

More than 50 Venezuelans were scheduled to be flown out of the country — presumably to El Salvador — from an immigration detention center in Anson, Texas, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

Miami Beach mayor Steven Meiner is pushing to evict O Cinema, an independent nonprofit movie theater, from a city-owned space after the theater screened Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land. He claims it’s antisemitic. The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida said it is "monitoring" the issue.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit accusing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of failing to fulfill his constitutional obligation to call special elections for two seats in the state House and Senate.

Saying the country is at a “deeply, deeply disturbing” juncture, veteran litigator Bacardi Jackson is taking the mantle as executive director of the ACLU of Florida.

Gov. Ron DeSantis directed universities to "deactivate" chapters of the group "Students for Justice in Palestine." The ACLU says he can't do that.

A federal judge says Gov. Ron DeSantis and other defendants weren't given proper notice about the legal motion, and civil rights groups can file the request again.