Recall Florida | Resources

RECALL

Florida's recall law (Florida Statute 100.361) — gives voters in charter counties and in municipalities (cities, towns and villages) the power to remove local elected officials from office
Charter County Information — an article from the Florida Association of Counties that includes a list of Florida's 20 charter counties, which are the 20 counties where voters have recall power
Key attorney general opinions:

Recall of State Officials — an article from the National Conference of State Legislatures

Public Records Law (Florida Statutes, Chapter 119) — governs public records
Government in the Sunshine Manual — includes a comprehensive guide to Florida's Public Records Law, published annually by the Florida Office of the Attorney General with assistance from the Florida First Amendment Foundation
Public Records Guide for Law Enforcement Agencies — published annually by the Florida Office of the Attorney General
How to investigate police misconduct using Brady lists and public records — an article from the nonprofit MuckRock

Sunshine Law (Florida Statutes, Chapter 286) — governs the proceedings of public boards, meaning boards with elected or appointed officials, whether state-level or local-level
Government in the Sunshine Manual — includes a comprehensive guide to Florida's Sunshine Law, published annually by the Florida Office of the Attorney General with assistance from the Florida First Amendment Foundation

Sunshine Amendment (Florida Constitution, Article II, Section 8)
Code of Ethics for Public Officers and Employees (Florida Statutes, Chapter 112, Part III)
Guide to the Sunshine Amendment and the Code of Ethics — a brochure about Florida's ethics laws and the processes of the Florida Commission on Ethics, which is updated annually by the commission
Florida Commission on Ethics website

Campaign finance law (Florida Statutes, Chapter 106)
Following the money: Political candidates (Part 1) — a Recall Florida article with step-by-step instructions for researching donations to candidates' campaigns
Following the money: Political committees (Part 2) — a Recall Florida article with step-by-step instructions for researching donations to candidates' political committees
Come Clean Florida — a campaign that seeks "to put an end to the 'legal laundering' of millions of dollars in special interest campaign contributions through political committees controlled by legislative leaders, as well as through the Republican and Democrat parties of Florida." Their website includes a history of campaign finance in Florida.

Get the Flock Out — a campaign of the nonprofit American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) designed to aid communities
Atlas of Surveillance — a searchable database and interactive map of law enforcement surveillance technologies. It is a joint project of the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism.
Eyes On Flock — a website devoted to aggregating data from Flock Safety's transparency portals. You can search the data by location and submit additional portals.
DeFlock.org — an open-source mapping project for automated license plate readers (ALPRs). In addition to the website, Android and iOS apps are available.
Have I Been Flocked? — a searchable database of Flock Safety audit logs. You can look up your license plate to find out if a Flock customer, such as a local law enforcement agency, might have done a search for your license plate. You can also submit audit logs that you have obtained.
ALPR Abuse Library — a searchable, editorially reviewed index of news articles documenting misuses of automated license plate readers (ALPRs). It is maintained by Kansas Watch, a watchdog publication focused on Kansas, but the index covers all states.
State of Surveillance — an independent publication devoted to investigative reporting on government surveillance and related topics

LARGE-SCALE DATA CENTERS*

Stop AI Data Centers — a downloadable toolkit from the Sierra Club's Florida Chapter
How to Stop a Data Center Near You — a step-by-step guide from the nonprofit Food & Water Watch
Stop Dirty Data Centers — a collection of resources from the nonprofit NAACP
FloridaDataCenters.org — an independent website that tracks proposed large-scale data center projects in Florida based on public records and local news reports
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting — a community awareness initiative from consumer advocate Erin Brockovich. The FAQs state that the website was "created to give people a platform to speak up and voice concerns about AI data centers in their communities," but it is also a comprehensive resource with a map, statistics, news and more.
Data Center Watch — a Substack newsletter/blog that covers opposition to data center development nationally

*They are also referred to as hyperscale data centers and AI data centers.