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Attorney General Pam Bondi is standing her ground on felons’ rights after a half hour meeting with the ACLU and NAACP. The civil rights groups are trying to convince Bondi to stop pushing to lengthen the time it takes before a felon can ask to have their rights restored. The Executive Director of the ACLU Howard Simon says Florida should follow the lead of 39 other states with fewer restrictions on former felons.

“We ought to follow what most states in this country do and when people satisfy the terms and conditions of their sentence they deserve to have their rights restored,” said Simon.

Next Tuesday Bondi will ask the state cabinet to reverse a rule by former Governor Charlie Crist that provides automatic restoration of civil rights to non-violent felony offenders.