Photo credit: AG James Uthmeier on Facebook
The Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier launched on 29 April 2025, a national first. The Office of Parental Rights was established in the offices of the Attorney General's office. It was reported in a press release that:
“initiative is established to provide justice to parents and families whose rights have been violated.”
Attorney General, James Uthmeier, celebrated this achievement by holding a press conference at a Jacksonville school and was joined by Parental Right's Florida state coordinator, Patti Sullivan. Also part of this conference where Tiffany Justice, founder of Moms for Liberty, Kimberly Hermann, Southeastern Legal Foundation executive director and parent activist January Littlejohn. Littlejohn is the plaintive in the "11th Circuit lawsuit Littlejohn v. Schoolboard of Leon County."
AG Uthmeier explained in the press conference his belief that “freedom begins at home; it begins with the understanding that parents have God-given rights to raise their kids the way they deem appropriate…. Government should not be in the middle of those parental decisions.”
Denial of access to school records;
- Lack of consent for biometric or personal data collection;
- Unauthorized healthcare, counseling, or mental health services;
- Interference with educational choices;
- Failure to notify parents or suspected criminal offenses;
- Coercion or encouragement to withhold information;
- Objectionable instructional or library materials;
- Violations of parental notification for health services;
- Restrictions on parental participation in school governance; and
- Unauthorized data sharing or surveys.
This new Office has a team of litigators, consisting of moms to whom, defending families from government overreach, are a very important and worthy cause. They are driven and prepared to take on cases.
This achievement in Florida is in stark contrast to California where recently laws was passed that can strip parent's rights regarding medical decisions, if parents disagree with goverment's enforced principals.
Patti Sullivan was sharing of the history that brought Florida to this moment and expressed hope that other states will follow suit and set up Offices of Parental Rights. She got a spontaneous applause when she said: “We shouldn’t have to expand our parental rights. This is a restoration of what is already a God-given right.”
Tiffany Justice from Moms for Liberty, said this action is a model of courage and it is calling every governor and attorney general accross the United States to take similiar action. Parents should be assisted to fight for the protection of their kids against policies that weaken's parental rights.
We at Parental Right's are looking forward, to see this new office take up cases against schools and school boards. We keep on fighting for Parental Rights, protecting children by empowering parents.
Thank you for reading.
https://parentalrightsfoundation.org/floridas-first-in-the-nation-office-of-parental-rights/