The City of Miami Beach has been at the forefront of the fight for the rights and well-being of its residents, regardless of status. The City has perennially been a model for how a municipality should work for the public interest. The City, under the leadership of its City Manager and Attorneys, embraces the concept of municipal governments utilizing legal authority to provide greater protections to their residents than the basic threshold offered by the State and Federal constitutions or state and federal laws.

Desmond Meade is a formerly homeless returning citizen who overcame many obstacles to eventually become the current State Director for Florida Live Free Campaign, President of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), Chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy, Chair of the Florida Coalition on Black Civ

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Dolores Clara Fernandez was born on April 10, 1930 in Dawson, a small mining town in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Her father Juan Ferånández, a farm worker and miner by trade, was a union activist who ran for political office and won a seat in the New Mexico legislature in 1938. Dolores spent most of her childhood and early adult life in Stockton, California where she and her two brothers moved with their mother, following her parents’ divorce.

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