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State pardons gym owners over facemask violations Updated:  Tags:  Mike Carnevale was charged with three misdemeanors after allowing patrons to workout last summer without facemasks. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Clemency Board pardoned a husband and wife Wednesday on charges they violated local emergency orders in Broward County last year. Their crime: refusing to require their 2,000 patrons to wear masks while working out. The business, owned by Mike and Jillian Ca...

Mark Schlakman Florida’s Clemency Board didn’t actually do much to help felons regain the right to vote | Column The newest reforms appear to be far less than they may have seemed.     Floridas Cabinet: From left, Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis. Its members met as the Clemency Board last week. [ News Service of Florida ] Published Mar. 15 Updated Mar. 15 Florida’s Board of Exe...

The Florida Clemency Board voted Wednesday to automatically restore most civil rights stripped from felons once theyve completed their sentences. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed the new rules to streamline the restoration of rights. He and the independently elected Cabinet members that serve as the Clemency Board voted unanimously to approve them. DeSantis said he proposed the changes in part to address a 2018 constitutional amendment, known as Amendment 4, that was designed to restore vo...

Florida will soon lower COVID vaccine age eligibility to 55 Follow Us Question of the Day By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press - Wednesday, March 10, 2021 MIAMI (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that after the state makes people 60 and older eligible for the COVID vaccine on Monday, it will soon lower the age to 55 and then probably open it up to the rest of the population. The governor said at a news c...

Advocate says it’s important to recognize victory of Florida’s clemency changes DeSantis, Cabinet back sweeping changes to clemency process Published:  Tags:  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – For the past decade, felons in Florida have had to wait at least five years after being released from prison before becoming eligible to have their civil rights restored. But Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet, acting as the Board of Executive Clemency, did away with the waiting periods on Wednesday. It ...

The Florida Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021. Credit: Michael Moline/Florida Phoenix Gov. Ron DeSantis blocked a pardon on Wednesday for Desmond Meade, who led the campaign behind Florida’s voting-rights restoration ballot initiative in 2018, citing Meade’s dishonorable discharge from the military. However, the governor suggested Meade could qualify for restoration of his civil rights, including the right to serve on juries and hold public office, under revised clemency rules that he and the Florid...

DeSantis, Clemency Board remove 5-year waiting period to restore civil rights to felons Florida Rights Restoration Coalition celebrates victory, but says more work needs to be done Governor Ron DeSantis and the Clemency Board removed the minimum five-year waiting period for felons to apply to have civil rights restored, including the right to vote. and last updated 2021-03-10 19:28:33-05 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Governor Ron DeSantis and the Clemency Board removed the minimum five-year w...

On a day when advocates for ex-felons could celebrate another big win, Desmond Meade, one of the most prominent advocates, was again denied a pardon by Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis also would not expedite Meade’s clemency, saying he should go through the proper channels.

Man Serving 90-Year Weed Crime Sentence Released From Prison December 16, 2020 On Tuesday, December 8th, Richard DeLisi walked out of South Bay Correctional Facility after serving 31 long years. While the 71-year-old was held away in prison – his wife died, his son overdosed, and his daughter was paralyzed in a brutal car accident. A stripped life and a broken family, all stemming from a grossly inflated cannabis conviction.  The Longest-Serving Nonviolent Cannabis Prisoner In September o...

Felony drug trafficking, a republican state representative who had been a paul lepage loyalist throughout his time in the legislature. for some reason, paul lepage looks at him and does not want to behead him. the state rep not only had had the felony drug trafficking conviction, since that conviction, he hats admitted to using firearms multiple times. which as a felon was additional felony. he has had multiple misdemeanor offenses since his felony, but paul lepage on his way out of office pardo...