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 counties — an article from the Florida Association of Counties that include 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)
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.

Atlas of Surveillance — a searchable database and interactive map of law enforcement surveillance technologies, which is a joint project of the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation and the University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism
DeFlock — an open-source project that maps and educates the public about license plate readers

How to Stop a Data Center Near You — a step-by-step article 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 hyperscale/AI data center projects in Florida based on public records and local news reports
Data Center Watch — a Substack newsletter/blog that covers opposition to data center development nationally