The Florida Civil Rights Initiative has benefited from months of legal research to inoculate the Initiative, to the maximum extent possible, from judicial nullification. In anticipation of possible legal restrictions on the number of issues that can be addressed in one petition, the proponents of FCRI keep race and gender preferences together on one petition but separate race and gender preferences on three other petitions which address separately public education, public contracting and public employment. Pending permission by the Court, FCRI continues to work to gather enough signatures to eliminate both race and gender preferences. That remains FCRI's priority. For more information on the reasoning behind the multi-petition strategy, please click here .
Support comes from voters belonging to all political parties, races, genders and ethnicities.
The Florida Civil Rights Initiative would leave all existing federal and state civil rights protections intact. The burden of proof that Florida's public employers, contracting agencies and educational institutions must meet when facing civil rights challenges to their practices also would remain unchanged. In fact, the Florida Civil Rights Initiative will help race relations in Florida. Currently, the public is frustrated because civil rights laws are not applied consistently. The Florida Civil Rights Initiative will eliminate the growing divisiveness because it will require government to be fair and treat people equally.