HCR 151 Summary

• The Legislature formally apologizes for injustices perpetrated by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (FLIC) between 1956 and 1965 against individuals whose lives and livelihoods were damaged or destroyed by the committee's activities.

• The FLIC surveilled, harassed, and arrested participants in the 1956 bus boycott and targeted NAACP members and attorneys, falsely claiming the organization was violating laws and infiltrated by communists.

• The committee conducted a 4-year statewide investigation into alleged homosexual activity by public school teachers and administrators using coercive interrogation tactics in motel rooms and basements, resulting in revoked teaching certificates.

• The FLIC investigated alleged homosexual activity at the University of Florida starting in November 1958, resulting in 14 faculty and staff terminations through entrapment and coercion.

• The committee investigated the University of South Florida in 1961 for allegedly communist, anti-Christian, and pro-integration curricula and published misleading reports in 1964-1965 that drew unfavorable national attention and perpetuated falsehoods against Florida citizens.