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What does Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill” mean in the classroom? Elections in Broward and Palm Beach Counties and the firing of Fort Lauderdale’s police chief.

‘The Horsewoman’ is a story of a mother and daughter who are trying to make it to the Paris Olympics in the horse riding competition. Another South Florida police chief is ousted not even a year into the job. And how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is impacting U.S.-Venezuela relations.

Last week, a Florida police chief learned that discriminating against white people is still against the law, even if he had the “wokest” of intentions.

Larry Scirotto, Fort Lauderdale’s first gay police chief, has been fired after six months over his approach to hiring and promoting staff.

The firing of Larry Scirotto has created a media storm and raised tensions around the sensitive topic of race, ethnicity and policing, experts say.

Days after Larry Scirotto was fired, the former police chief for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department is strongly denying allegations that he promoted officers...

Larry Scirotto was in office less than a year before the city of Fort Lauderdale investigated claims of discrimination within the police department.

Larry Scirotto says he promoted ‘minority candidates because they were exceptional – not because they were minority’

An investigation into the bias complaints concluded that Scirotto was unfairly focused on minority candidates for jobs and noted that he once said a conference room wall of photos was “too white” and said, “I’m gonna change that.”

Larry Scirotto was in office less than a year before the city of Fort Lauderdale investigated claims of discrimination within the police department.