{"id":237964,"date":"2026-04-19T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237964\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:04:10","slug":"florida-landmarks-being-lighted-purple-in-honor-of-marsys-law-during-crime-victims-rights-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237964\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida landmarks being lighted purple in honor of ‘Marsy’s Law’ during Crime Victim’s Rights Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

8 buildings will be cast in purple in Florida to honor Marcy’s Law protecting victims of crime. <\/p>\n

Several landmarks and buildings throughout Florida will be seen in purple lighting in the coming week as part of National Crime Victims\u2019 Rights Week<\/a> while honoring a particular movement.<\/p>\n

At least eight high-profile landmarks will be shown in the hue of purple for the week through April 25 not only for Victim\u2019s Right Week but also for the state law known as Marsy\u2019s Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, National Crime Victims\u2019 Rights Week is particularly meaningful for us as SB 350<\/a> and HB 1113<\/a> was passed by the Florida Legislature last month, restoring the right to privacy initially afforded to Florida crime victims after a statewide vote in 2018,\u201d said Jennifer Fennell, Marsy\u2019s Law for Florida<\/a> spokesperson. \u201cThis right had been stripped away from crime victims nearly three years ago following a Florida Supreme Court ruling.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concept of Marsy\u2019s Law originated in California in 2008 when voters in that state approved a referendum that expands legal rights of crime victims including elements of protection from a defendant in a case, notifications of case developments, restitution and other rights. The original law is named after Marsy Nicholas who was stalked and killed by her former boyfriend while she was in her senior year at University of California Santa Barbara in 1983.<\/p>\n

Florida voters approved a similar modification to the state Constitution in 2018 and the legislative measures approved in March expand Marsy\u2019s Law to include public records exemptions for crime victims.<\/p>\n

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In the next week, in honor of the Florida version of the law, several key public landmarks will be cast in purple lighting on the exterior of the buildings in honor of the law for either portions of the week or all week long.<\/p>\n

Those landmarks include:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Capital Cascades Trail Crossing and Pedestrian Bridge in Tallahassee (all week long).<\/p>\n

\u2014 Daytona International Speedway sign in Daytona Beach (all week long).<\/p>\n

\u2014 Oceanfront Bandshell in Daytona Beach (all week long).<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Historic Citrus County Courthouse-Old Courthouse Heritage Museum in Inverness (all week long).<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dade City Historic Courthouse in Dade City (Tuesday trough Saturday).<\/p>\n

\u2014 West Pasco Government Center in New Port Richey (Tuesday through Saturday).<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Freedom Tower in Miami (Tuesday, April 21).<\/p>\n

\u2014 Truist Building in Tampa (Wednesday, April 22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8 buildings will be cast in purple in Florida to honor Marcy’s Law protecting victims of crime. Several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105613,105614,54457,28,30,29,9948,105615,105616,105617,105618,91714,105619,105009,105620,21595,10545,105621,105622,105623],"class_list":["post-237964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-capital-cascades-trail-crossing","tag-dade-city-historic-courthouse","tag-daytona-international-speedway","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-freedom-tower","tag-hb-1113","tag-historic-citrus-county-courthouse","tag-jennifer-fennell","tag-marsy-nicholas","tag-marsys-law","tag-marsys-law-for-florida","tag-national-crime-victims-rights-week","tag-oceanfront-bandshell","tag-pedestrian-bridge","tag-referendum","tag-sb-350","tag-truist-building","tag-west-pasco-government-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}