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The proposal, sponsored by Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Chairman Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, would require new employees as of July 1, 2022, to enroll in a 401(k)-style “investment” plan.
The proposal would require future employees in the Florida retirement system to enroll in a 401(k)-style investment plan, and not a pension plan.
After years of discussions about the tricky issue of overhauling Florida’s retirement system for government employees, a Senate committee Thursday approved a proposal that would shut future workers out of a traditional pension plan.
The proposal, sponsored by Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Chairman Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, would require new employees as of July 1, 2022, to enroll in a 401(k)-style “investment” plan. Employees currently are allowed to choose whether to take part in the pension plan or the investment plan.
Last June, the United States House of Representatives (led by House Democrats) passed the “Justice in Policing Act of 2020,” which addresses a wide range of policies and issues aimed squarely at reforming policing practices. Among the bill’s key tenets is a provision that limits qualified immunity as a defense to liability in a private civil action against a law enforcement officer or state correctional officer.
Qualified immunity stems from a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled police officers cannot be sued for violating a person’s rights unless a court has already ruled that behavior is unconstitutional. It provides necessary protections for individual police officers from lawsuits, yet law enforcement agencies can still be held liable for civil damages.
Updated on November 13, 2020 at 9:47 am
Cellphone video, exclusively obtained by NBC 6 Investigators, shows Medley Police officers arresting Joshua Rodriguez inside his then home in January 2019.
The video begins when then Sergeant German Gutierrez puts Rodriguez in a chokehold while two other Medley Police officers try to restrain him.
While the department allowed the use of chokeholds at the time, like other law enforcement agencies in South Florida, it has since banned its use “except in authorized deadly force situations.”
“You guys don’t have a warrant,” Rodriguez, who is on his feet, can be heard saying - while an officer tells him, “Don’t make me hurt you. I don’t want to hurt.”
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