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The report indicates many of the advocates traveled several hours to get to the hearing, only to continue to be stymied by Republicans.
Last year's election reforms built barriers to voting for disadvantaged people in Fla., while doing nothing to bolster election integrity.
Forty to fifty advocates stood on the steps of the Old Capitol building in Tallahassee recently, weathering a cold, rainy rally.
The Florida Senate's leading criminal-justice reformers voted in support of a new leader for the state prisons system.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick's lawyers, the report states, wrote in a brief that DeSantis's plan discriminates against Black voters.
Republican state lawmakers who changed Florida's election laws last year used highly unusual tactics to pass reforms they promoted.
A number of voting-rights groups, including the League of Women Voters of Florida, are suing the state over SB 90, pushed by DeSantis.
Republicans ignored the state's history of Jim Crow laws, blocked a key amendment, and provided no evidence it would not harm minorities.
Black lawmakers pushed key legislative initiatives aimed at improving health and safety for communities of color; the GOP has stalled them.
“Why are you attacking kids that look like me?” pleaded Zachary Olivos, 12, who has roots in Honduras and Mexico, the report states.
The report states Republicans are going after those who are likely elderly, with a low or fixed income, and who speak little English.
The Florida Senate announced a plan to raise minimum wage for state employees to $15 an hour, an initiative led by Senate President Simpson.
Republican members of the Florida House and Senate have been pushing legislation to limit school board pay, the report states.
N. Florida Republican Brad Drake truncated the public input, the report states. The Capitol committee room was packed.
New maps defining Florida's House and Senate legislative voting districts are approved and heading to the Florida Supreme Court for review.
Democratic state Sen. Book addressed concerns as a rape victim, the report states, as well as for incest; Republicans did not support these.
More than 20 FBI offices around the nation are investigating; Bethune-Cookman and Edward Waters universities from Florida are targeted.
With only 30 minority-dominated districts, Democrat G. Thompson said she believes this redistricting is reflective "of a ghetto mentality."
The Black lawmakers continue to grapple, unsettling; attacks on voting rights, concerns about blocking students from learning, bomb threats.
"Are we afraid of people voting?" Sen. Polsky asked. "Are we afraid of voting by mail?" Other Democrats were also opposed, the report says.
