HCR 893 Summary

• Acknowledges injustices perpetrated by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (FLIC) between 1956 and 1965 and offers formal apology to victims whose lives and livelihoods were damaged or destroyed

• FLIC surveilled, harassed, and arrested participants in the 1956 bus boycott and targeted NAACP members, falsely claiming the organization was violating laws by soliciting desegregation lawsuit plaintiffs and had been infiltrated by communists

• Committee conducted unconstitutional investigations into alleged homosexual activity at University of Florida (1958-1959), resulting in entrapment of individuals and firing of 14 faculty and staff members

• FLIC conducted four years of statewide investigations into alleged homosexual activity by public school teachers, administrators, and students, working with local law enforcement and the Florida Board of Education to revoke teaching certificates

• Committee investigated University of South Florida faculty and students in 1961 for alleged liberal teaching methods and pro-integration, anti-Christian views, and published misleading reports in 1964-1965 that damaged individuals' careers and Florida's national reputation