Groups back challenges to Marsyâs Law By News Service of Florida Staff | May 17, 2021 at 12:31 PM EDT - Updated May 17 at 12:31 PM
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (News Service of Florida) - First Amendment and journalism groups want to weigh in if the Florida Supreme Court takes up a case that could help shield the identities of law-enforcement officers involved in use-of-force incidents.
The Joseph L. Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Society of Professional Journalists filed a notice Friday of their intent to submit a friend-of-the-court brief if the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case, which involves application of a 2018 constitutional amendment known as âMarsyâs Law.â
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Documents Show Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at the Border
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Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at Border
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle patrols the border fence in El Paso, Texas, on August 23, 2019.
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Taylor Levy couldn’t understand why she’d been held for hours by Customs and Border Protection officials when crossing back into El Paso, Texas, after getting dinner with friends in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in January 2019. And she didn’t know why she was being questioned by an agent who’d introduced himself as a counterterrorism specialist.
Levy was part of the legal team representing the father of a girl who’d died the previous month in the custody of the Border Patrol, which is part of CBP. “There was so much hate for immigration lawyers at that time,” she recalled. “I thought that somebody had put in an anonymous tip that I was a terrorist.”