FL S0278

Acknowledges injustices perpetrated by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (1956-1965) against civil rights activists, NAACP members, and LGBTQ individuals whose lives and livelihoods were damaged by the committee's activities.

Documents the committee's surveillance, harassment, and arrests of bus boycott participants and Inter-Civic Council members in 1956, and its interrogation of Virgil Hawkins and NAACP attorneys regarding desegregation efforts.

Details the committee's four-year statewide investigation (1959-1962) into alleged homosexual activity by public school teachers, administrators, and students using entrapment tactics, resulting in firing of educators and revocation of teaching certificates.

Records the committee's inquiries into alleged communist sympathizers and liberal teaching methods at the University of Florida and University of South Florida, damaging faculty careers and Florida's national academic reputation.

Offers a formal apology on behalf of the Florida Legislature to all individuals whose reputations, careers, and well-being were harmed by the committee's unconstitutional methods and misleading reports.