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The EJI will be unveiling the July Perry (Ocoee Massacre 1920) Marker and having Bryan Stevenson, EJI, deliver a community-wide address.

Unveiling at Heritage Sq plaza in front of History Center, with Stevenson remarks next door at OC Public Library

VOLUNTEER LEGAL HELP NEEDED FOR JUNE 15 & 29
Calling all LWVOC members who are attorneys and friends or family of local attorneys:
Amendment 4 to restore voting rights of former felons passed last November by 64.5%, but the 2019
Florida Legislature just passed SB 7066 that restricts this right by requiring payment of all fines, fees, and
restitution obligations (civil judgement) before these returning citizens can vote. Governor DeSantis has
indicated he will sign this bill into law.

History Center speaker series partnership

The Media~Guardians of Democracy or Enemy of the People?

Information for obtaining a Suffragist costume

Review of Sept 12 Hot Topics Luncheon

Get registered this month!

Orlando Sentinel

May HT Luncheon

Review of HOT TOPICS luncheon

Summary of luncheon, There's no place like home...if you can afford it.

Review of program

At a glance summary of our committees

Power point presentation available for Speakers Bureau

Review of Hot Topics NOV luncheon

New Partnership

October Hot Topics, The Opioid Epidemic

Presentation of new 2018-2019 Board, Program, etc.

Official press release

Billy Hattaway Presentation

Events and opportunities to volunteer

Review of the highly anticipated and sold out Hot Topics with Gilbert King.

Opinion Piece

Your Roof Can Print Cash

Review of Aug 9 discussion

A summary of HT judicial candidate forum

June 18, 2018 statement about the separation of children from family at the borders

For Immediate Release

Orlando Sentinel, Letters to Editor

Headed to the June 28-Jul 1 National Convention in Chicago?

...joining a movement of more than three dozen cities across the nation.

Monthly review of Hot Topics Luncheon

League members interviewed about the work the League does for Voter Registration and Affordable Housing Crisis

Gun Safety Committee Event

Getting to know each other in the LWVOC

Luncheon Review

Leaguers in Action Event

Pamela Goodman wrap-up

Retired former Gila County Presiding Judge and Presiding Juvenile Court Judge, Peter Cahill, and his former Law Clerk, Lisa Queen, will present a multimedia presentation, Gault-Looking Back in Time, that includes vintage photographs of juvenile court, photos of handwritten documents that began the habeas challenge, exhibits and transcripts from the August 1964 habeas hearings, and audio from the Supreme Court arguments

"I am responding to Michelle Ertel’s CF100 comment in Sunday’s Sentinel that none of the members of the state board of the League of Women Voters of Florida are Republican.

When the League appoints board members, their voter registration is never asked or considered. The League of Women Voters goes back to the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848. These original suffragists were all Republicans. When Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time, she voted a straight Republican ticket.

Opening remarks from our guest, Student Activist-JC Martinez

Upload your photos for a chance to win a FREE Hot Topics lunch.

LWF USA president shares her thoughts about the upcoming year and voters' rights.

Official statement and press release concerning recent questions about stance on immigration.

An evening of sharing and progress

Leaders Launch Campaign Opposing Utility-Backed Amendment 1
Opposition to utility-backed solar proposal spans political spectrum

Opinion piece, Orlando Sentinel

Who Represents YOU in Washington, DC?

Coalition perseveres despite silence from state leaders.

Press Release from LWVFL June 23

PDF for social media download. I VOTE BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT...

The League of Women Voters Orange County will provide a speaker who will present a nonpartisan review of the ballot to your organization. We call these presentations Ballot Education.

After 5 p.m., today reservations for the Money in Politics Hot Topics will close.

Finding ways that LYNX can better serve Central Floridians as they travel between home and work was the focus of a meeting between the head of the transit service and members of the Orange County League of Women Voters.

In keeping with League's core mission of promoting informed voting, the Spanish-language Vamos a Votar website will post the results of candidates' answers to hot-topic questions, such as Medicaid expansion and full funding of mental and physical health resources, ahead of the elections. This event is publicize the availability of Vamos a Votar as well as registering voters.

Marking the 100th anniversary of the parks service, three leading environmentalists warned Monday of the need to elect state and federal representatives who will work together to preserve the nation’s parks for future generations.
“The next generation -- and us -- have to elect the kind of people who understand,” said Nathaniel Reed, Assistant Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Reagan and Ford and helped write the Endangered Species Act. “We have to persuade good candidates to come forward to join the battle.”
Reed together with Fran Mainella, the first female Director of the National Park Service (2001-2006) and a former director of the Florida Park Service, and Jim Stevenson, former chief naturalist for Florida’s state parks, spoke at the standing-room only Rollins College event, supported by the League of Women Voters of Orange County. It marked the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service and Florida’s First State Park.

Capitol Report, Final week of Legislative Session

Last week summation of bills brought before committee.

Hosted by the Rollins College Environmental Studies Department
100 Years of State and National Parks
Challenges and Threats in the Next Century

The Capitol was bustling in the countdown to the end of session. All committee meetings end March 1st, meaning any bills that haven’t passed their assigned committee stops are most probably dead for the year. It is a frantic period of shepherding bills through to the respective chambers and making sure companion bills are also teed up for a floor vote. Of the over 2,000 bills that are filed each session, only a few hundred will make it to the Governor’s desk to be signed into law. Here are the highlights of our week in action at the Capitol:Capitol Report 2016

Rocky week in the Legislative Session.

Drug manufacturers have been pushing legislators in other states to enact a cap on prescription copays. Florida may be next. You might think limits on copays would be great. That could mean lower costs for you and me at the pharmacy counter, but we all pay for it in the ever-rising cost of health care and in our insurance premiums.

What are the ramifications of being a CLOSED PRIMARY state?

As the 2016 Legislative session reaches its midpoint, gun bills appear to have been silenced, fracking is under scrutiny, and a massive water bill has been passed and signed into law by the Governor. The Senate and House approved separated budgets and will begin budget negotiations by next week, which contain some significant differences.

Chosen from January Blogs

At a press conference in Tampa, The League of Women Voters' Patricia Brigham said the average holder of a concealed-weapons permit does not have the kind of training that law enforcement officers get, and there's been no public outcry for an open-carry law

The Orange County Sheriff’s Citizens Advisory Committee was urged by the League of Women Voters to support the use of civil citations for young offenders, “allowing them to proceed with their futures without a record.”

Read the results of the recent survey regarding public transportation by Metroplan

Four women who served our country in Iraq, Korea, Turkey and beyond shared their stories on Veterans Day at the monthly Hot Topics luncheon of the League of Women Voters of Orange County.