Black Lives Matter protesters gather in Weston in June, 2020.
The court ruling marks the first major test of the new Marsy’s Law protections for crime victims even when the victims are police officers.
A state appeals court in Tallahassee this week ruled for the first time that the names of two police officers involved in two separate deadly shootings should not have their names released to the public.
That’s because under Marsy’s Law, which voters passed as a ballot amendment in 2018, the officers are considered victims of crime since they both say they were threatened with deadly force before the shootings.
Orlando man says he didn t contribute to mysterious candidate in tight state Senate race
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Former Florida senator charged with lying on documents
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A sham candidacy fueled with dark money has 11 Florida members of Congress and fair-elections advocates calling for an investigation into state Sen. Jason Brodeur s 2020 election.
Brodeur represents Senate District 9, which covers all of Seminole County plus southwest Volusia County, after having won a three-person race in November 2020.
But Brodeur s race carries some of the hallmarks of a South Florida Senate race that s led to the arrests of a former state senator, Frank Artiles, and a third-party candidate who told investigators Artiles paid him to run as a spoiler.
Brodeur, a Republican, defeated Democrat Patricia Sigman with with 50.3% of the vote, while a no-party affiliation candidate named Jestine Iannotti finished a distant third.
Florida Senate Democrats call for federal probe of election tampering
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