FL S0338

Formally acknowledges injustices committed by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (1956-1965), which surveilled, harassed, and interrogated civil rights activists, NAACP members, and individuals suspected of homosexuality

Documents the committee's targeting of participants in the 1956 Tallahassee bus boycott, including students from Florida A&M University and members of the Inter-Civic Council

Details investigations at the University of Florida (1958-1959) and University of South Florida (1961) where faculty, staff, and students were entrapped, interrogated without counsel, and fired based on allegations of homosexuality or "liberal" teaching

Notes the committee worked with law enforcement and the State Board of Education to revoke teaching certificates of public school employees statewide based on these investigations

Offers a formal apology from the Legislature to those whose lives, well-being, and livelihoods were damaged by the committee's unconstitutional methods and inflammatory public reports