Attorney Val Jonas is the Recipient of the Jeanne Baker Humanitarian Award
Civil Rights Attorney Valerie Jonas is last year’s recipient of the Jeanne Baker Humanitarian Award. She received her award last night before an audience at the Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale, the city in which she had sex offender residency restrictions declared unconstitutional.
Val has been fighting for human rights for more than three decades and has dedicated her present practice almost exclusively to challenging laws and ordinances that inhibit the reintegration of persons required to register back into society. She is currently lead attorney on a lawsuit challenging Florida’s sex offender registry on a number of constitutional grounds.
Each year, the Florida Action Committee recognizes one individual whose contributions to our organization and to the protection of human rights has been exemplary. The award is named after our first recipient, Jeanne Baker, who was on hand to present the award to Val.
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Thanks Val Jonas for the fighting for the rights etc. We all your experiences up to now was to show Now is the year or so to fight them hard and hit them hard in wallet to show their stupidity cost them loads of dollars. Read something funny that states we should under pay politians and over pay teachers so there be smart people to change there stupid laws . . . .
Some day people will look up the trailblazers on this civil rights movement and see folks like Valarie Jonas, Mark Weinberg and Adele Nicholas as heros. Mark and Adele successfully had residency restrictions in Pleasant Prairie, WI declared unconstitutional. Mark is representing registered residents of Wayside Cross Ministry in Aurora, IL. The mayor placed a “pocket playground” inside a municipal park in an attempt to remove registered citizens. The Wayside Cross is actually a church ministry so mayor is trying to prevent residents from participating in their religious services.
Congratulations for your brave work! Doing what few others would do in society.
God bless you Val! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication!
Thank you so much Val Jonas
I have a small list of people I consider heroes, I think she was just added to that list.