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Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Florida.
300Documented
15In custody
200Released
9Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Florida
Where Florida’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 70
2000s 46
2020s 32
1950s 30
1970s 27
2010s 26
Recent dashboard entries from Florida
The newest published events and reporting located in Florida, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
Florida Senate threatens legal action unless newspapers destroy an insurance report obtained through public records
Arrest
Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano detained by ICE in Orlando; released September 26
Arrest
Evan Meyer arrested after destroying a police decoy made to resemble a Flock camera
Arrest
Venezuelan journalist Wilmer Solano Dávila detained by CBP in Miami Beach; released August 14
Arrest
Jacksonville Beach man arrested after spray-painting Flock cameras across three beach communities
Other
Prosecutors delay appeal in former journalist Timothy Burke's criminal hacking case
Other
Ten Years After the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, Survivors Reflect
Prosecution
Former federal prosecutor Carmen Lineberger was indicted over the sealed volume of the Jack Smith report; the FBI director tied the charges to her work on the Trump classified-documents probe
Documented cases
300 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Frank Guido
Released
Frank Guido was a Tampa-born leader of the Young Pioneers. Police arrested him while he was speaking at an ant...
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Luz Mery Gutierrez Vergara
Released
Luz Mery Gutierrez Vergara, GAAR-cluster defendant. 31 months federal prison + 36 months supervised release.
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Raul Guzman
Released
Raul Guzman, of Lakeland, FL was charged with inciting a riot following his participation in a Black Lives Mat...
A
Andrés Gómez
Andrés Gómez, a spokesman for the Antonio Maceo Brigade, was arrested on a disorderly-conduct accusation at th...
S
Samuel Harris
Samuel was a Florida State Prison inmate named in a newsletter account alleging a beating in spring 1975.
The...
W
Wilbert Henderson
Wilbert Henderson was held in the same cell as Frank Manuel during the May 1933 Pompano investigation, accordi...
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Linda Hernandez
Linda Hernandez was individually named in an FBI announcement of ten arrests in South Florida on September 12,...
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Nilo Hernandez-Mederos
Nilo Hernandez-Mederos was individually named in an FBI announcement of ten arrests in South Florida on Septem...
N
Noble Higgins
Noble Higgins was released from the county jail after a night in custody, according to the contemporary report...
S
Sam Hirsch
Released
Sam Hirsch was a former director of Miami Beach's Biltmore Playhouse indicted on eight counts of perjury in 19...
D
David Hitchcock
Released
David Hitchcock, 30 at the time and of Dania Beach, Florida, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale...
W
William Bruce Horton
William Bruce Horton was a Vietnam Veterans Against the War member from Gainesville, Florida, jailed twice in...
J
Jorge Abel Ibarguen-Palacio
Released
Jorge Abel Ibarguen-Palacio, also known as Turbo, was a member of the FARC's 57th Front. Panamanian police too...
W
William Ingle
Released
William Ingle appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
A
Arthur Jackson
Released
Arthur Jackson was a white Communist and the husband of Rose Jackson. Arthur Jackson was arrested and jailed i...
R
Rose Jackson
Released
Rose Jackson was a 38-year-old white Communist Party organizer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, arrested in the 19...
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Jack L. Jennings
Jack L. Jennings was a Vietnam Veterans Against the War member from Gainesville, Florida, jailed twice in Tall...
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Charles E. Jensen
Charles Jensen was a Socialist and member of the Modern Democrats arrested in the November 30, 1935 Tampa raid...
C
Crawford Louis Jones
Released
Crawford Louis Jones was a St. Petersburg Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activist arrested and jail...
D
David Charles Smith, Jr.
David Charles Smith, Jr. was one of the Quincy Five, Black civil-rights and voter-registration activists prose...
D
Dave Roby Keaton
Dave Roby Keaton was one of the Quincy Five, Black civil-rights and voter-registration activists prosecuted fo...
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Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan
Released
Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan was a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen and imam at Miami Masjid, also known as the Flag...
W
Wendy King
Released
Wendy King, 36 at the time and of Coral Springs, Florida, was one of the "GEO9," a group of Fort Lauderdale Fo...
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Brian Kopenspanger
Brian Kopenspanger was a Navy Nuclear Power School student in Orlando who sought conscientious-objector discha...
Institutions in Florida
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Florida that appear in the census’s case files.
FCI MariannaMarianna, Florida
8 cases
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of FloridaGainesville, Florida
8 cases
Florida State PrisonRaiford, Florida
8 cases
Raiford PenitentiaryRaiford, Florida
7 cases
Palm Beach County JailWest Palm Beach, Florida
7 cases
Miami FDCMiami, Florida
4 cases
Polk County JailBartow, Florida
4 cases
Fort TaylorKey West, Florida
4 cases