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274:, the only Democrat on the clemency board, and the only board member who voted to restore Meade's civil rights, said that, during the two years of DeSantis's governorship, the board had approved only 30 requests from thousands of applications and called the Florida clemency system "broken." DeSantis, who as governor has veto power over pardons or restorations of civil rights, cited Meade's 1990 dishonorable discharge from the Army as a reason to withhold clemency, saying that Meade could reapply if he cleared up questions about it. 233:
justice reform initiatives, including bail reform and re-entry programs, and finding ways to open access to housing and employment opportunities for returning citizens. " The FRRC raised $ 28M for people with past felony convictions in Florida who needed to pay fines and fees before they could vote; the obligations of over 44,000 returning citizens were paid before the November 2020 election.
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Meade has orchestrated the reorganization and incorporation of a coalition comprising over 70 state and national organizations and individuals, and led the group to a historic victory in 2018 with the successful passage of Amendment 4, a grassroots citizen's initiative which restored voting rights to
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DeSantis said he had questions over Meade's dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Army for stealing government property in 1990. Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, a Republican who also sits on the board as a Florida Cabinet member, said he wanted to know if Meade's ex-wife had forgiven him after
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As president and founder of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, launched in the early 2010s after nearly a decade of organizing work by the Florida ACLU, the Brennan Center and the Sentencing Project around restoring voting rights to former felons they prefer to call "returning citizens," Meade
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In 2001, he was convicted of possession of a firearm as a felon and sentenced to 15 years in prison. (According to Meade, the gun was in the cupboard of the house where he was staying, and belonged to the owner of the house, not to him, but police gave evidence that they found Meade holding the gun
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According to the MacArthur Foundation, the FRRC (of which Meade is executive director) "is helping people find the information they need to meet the requirements .. and providing financial assistance to meet outstanding financial obligations. Meade and FRRC are also working on a series of criminal
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In 2009, Meade became the head of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), a group aimed at restoring civil rights to felons in Florida who had completed their sentences and probation. Meade described his goal as politically non-partisan, and worked closely with Republicans including former
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To its supporters, Amendment 4 represents a potential civil rights triumph: It could enfranchise more people at once than any single initiative since women's suffrage... More than one in five black voters can't vote in Florida, compared with about one in 10 voters in the state's general population
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Although the board deferred both Meade's request for pardon and his restoration of civil rights, they told him he could ask again....The board on Wednesday did restore civil rights to Neil Volz, who works with Meade as the deputy director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition. Volz had been
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Activists started collecting petition signatures in 2015, under the banner of Floridians for Fair Democracy. Led by Desmond Meade, who was convicted of several drug charges and later completed a 15-year prison sentence for possession of a firearm as a felon, organizers collected more than 799,000
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The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office initially objected to Meade's pardon but later withdrew the objection. The office, which prosecuted some of Meade's cases, said its files were so old that they have long since been destroyed and no victims could be located...In Meade's case, Democrat Nikki
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Republican lawmakers in Florida responded to Amendment 4 by passing a new law (SB 7066), disqualifying from voting any felons who had unpaid fines or legal judgments against them. As a result, more than half of the 1.4 million felon voters were again disqualified. On appeal, the new law was
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Meade's campaign received a groundswell of support from diverse stakeholders across racial, socioeconomic, religious, and political divides...It re-enfranchised as many as 1.5 million Florida residents and resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in the country in the last fifty
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said that Meade "does a skillful job taking readers through the blow-by-blow of the campaign, including the process of writing the actual text of the referendum, and makes a persuasive case that restoring the civil rights of ex-felons will lower rates of recidivism."
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Meade reapplied and was again rejected by DeSantis in March, 2021, who again cited his 1990 military court martial, saying "As a former military officer, a dishonorable discharge is the highest punishment that a court martial may render. I consider it very serious."
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Meade is a former felon who struggled with homelessness before earning a law degree from the Florida International University College of Law. Currently, he is the Chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy and President of the Florida Rights Restoration
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In 2009, Meade became head of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), and he was soon putting 50,000 miles a year on his car to help gather the nearly 800,000 signatures needed to place the Voting Restoration Amendment on the 2018
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Over four months, he was able to get clean and then found refuge in a homeless shelter. But his transformation didn't stop there. 'It created an eternal obligation that I had to be an asset to my community and to give back,' he says of his
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Meade and his wife asked DeSantis if the Orlando resident could have his civil rights restored, which would allow him to serve on juries and run for public office, but DeSantis said that wasn't possible because Meade had applied for a
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Floridians for Fair Democracy, led by Desmond Meade of Orlando, successfully gathered more than 799,000 certified signatures in their years-long petition drive, just a week before the deadline to reach the required total of about
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Since 2019, the group has raised some $ 28 million toward the effort and paid off the fines and fees of 44,000 released felons. Volz said Bloomberg did not give the coalition any money nor did he have any direct involvement in
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Born into a family of labor organizers, she soon found herself working for SEIU in South Carolina where she quickly became the State Director of a campaign tasked with organizing people around the Affordable Care
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This is the second time DeSantis has denied Meade a pardon. His request was first rejected last September. DeSantis said he denied Meade a pardon due to his dishonorable discharge from the military three decades
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Days later, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis lodged an appeal to the 11th Circuit, which halted the voting registration of thousands of felons in the run-up to the August primary and November general election.
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Meade sought to regain his civil rights, appealing to Florida's clemency board and also asking for a pardon. The clemency process in Florida was made more restrictive by former Florida Governor
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In civilian life, Meade's drug problem continued. He served time in jail for felony drug possession, and after a fight with his brother was convicted of aggravated battery, also a felony.
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Desmond Meade, 54, Orlando, Florida, civil rights activist working to restore voting rights to formerly incarcerated citizens and remove barriers to their full participation in civic life.
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When we did our campaign for Amendment 4, we were fighting just as hard for that person that wanted to vote for Donald Trump as that person that wished they could vote for Barack Obama.
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denied Meade the pardon he would need to regain these civil rights. He also stated that Meade was not eligible to have his civil rights restored because he had applied for a pardon.
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conviction) from being admitted to the Florida Bar. Amendment 4 restored voting rights, but not other civil rights, such as the right to run for office or to sit for Florida's
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for the 2018 Florida elections, collecting 799,000 signatures. The initiative was approved in January 2018 for the November ballot. Ultimately, the amendment passed, as
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is a compelling story about one man's rise from addiction, homelessness, and prison to run a successful campaign to re-enfranchise more than one million Florida voters.
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certified signatures from registered voters in all 27 congressional districts, surpassing the minimum 766,000 signatures needed to get on the November 6 ballot.
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is part of Florida's Constitution, which requires a 60% vote to modify, many efforts to restore voting rights to former convicts had been unsuccessful.
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In December 2012, Meade married his wife Sheena, a labor activist and the mother of five children, whom he has adopted. They live in Orlando, Florida.
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Florida was one of just three remaining states — the others being Iowa and Kentucky — that prevented people with felony records from voting.
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In 2005, after having considered suicide, Meade checked himself into a drug treatment program and began to rebuild his life. He enrolled in
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For championing Florida's Amendment 4, voting rights activist Desmond Meade is one of Fast Company's Most Creative People of 2019.
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Starting in 2015, Meade led Floridians for Fair Democracy in a drive to qualify the "Voting Restoration Amendment" as a ballot
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Fried, the commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services, was the only member who supported his request for a full pardon.
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convicted of conspiring to bribe members of Congress as part of the 2006 Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
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magazine named Meade as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Meade's autobiography
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Although Meade graduated from law school in 2013, Florida law prevents him (or anyone with a past
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in his hand.) In 2004, however, an appeals court reversed his conviction and he was released.
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University of Florida's Bob Graham Center for Public Service's 2019 Floridian of the Year
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while living in a homeless shelter, graduating in 2010 with the school's highest honors.
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overturned in May, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle, who ruled that the
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Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens
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video focused on highlighting problems with America's criminal justice system.
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Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens
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Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens
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led one of the most impressive grassroots petition drives in state history.
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prohibits Florida from conditioning voting on payment of fines and fees.
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GOP lobbyist Neil Volz, who had spent time in prison in connection with
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for stealing from the base; after a three year sentence, he was given a
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At a clemency board hearing on September 23, 2020, Florida Governor
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Florida International University College of Law, Miami Dade College
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a domestic violence incident before he could grant a full pardon.
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over 1.4 million Floridians with past felony convictions.
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Time 100 2019 - 100 Most Influential People in the World
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Executive Director, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
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Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Bard College
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Florida as of 2018 was one of only three US states to
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Orlando Sentinel 2019 Central Floridian of the Year
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Appeal for full civil rights restoration and pardon
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Orlando Sentinel Central Floridian of the Year 2018
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Index

MacArthur Prize
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
Florida Amendment 4
MacArthur "Genius Grant
court martial
dishonorable discharge
Miami-Dade College
Florida International University College of Law
deny voting rights to anyone with a felony record
felon disenfranchisement
Jack Abramoff
initiative
Florida Amendment 4
24th Amendment
Ron DeSantis
11th Circuit Court
felony
bar examination
Rick Scott
Ron DeSantis
Nikki Fried
Beacon Press
Publishers Weekly
MacArthur Fellowship
RepresentUs
"About Us"
"Florida Amendment 4, Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative (2018)"


"100 Most Influential People 2019"

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