MIAMI HERALD
An official analysis concludes the bill would impact the right to free speech, but within acceptable boundaries. Opponents say it is severely overreaching.
After a long, hot summer of protests against police violence following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville Gov. Ron DeSantis announced in September that he would try his hardest to prevent any kind of unrest, of the type seen in other parts of the country, from happening in Florida.
Surrounded by law enforcement officers, the governor laid out what he called a “focal point” of the upcoming legislative session. The proposal he set forth would strip state funding from cities or counties that “defund the police” and would seek to charge organizers of protests that turn violent with “RICO” laws statutes that are typically used to go after mafia bosses.
Debate over controversial DCPS school names continues
District to host community stakeholder meetings starting in February
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The names of nine Duval County Public Schools campuses are poised to undergo review starting next month, as stakeholders discuss the schools’ controversial namesake historical figures.
Six of the schools under consideration for renaming honor Confederate Civil War leaders and the other three schools are named after leaders who perpetrated violence against Native Americans.
The schools under consideration are:
Joseph Finegan Elementary
Jean Ribault Middle School
In June, the DCPS Board voted unanimously to begin the consideration process for changing the names of six of the schools. Jackson High, Ribault High, and Ribault Middle schools were added to the list in early August.
This is probably the best Christmas present for the whole city, especially along Harts Road, because we can get rid of the biggest nuisance in this city, Gaffney said. The people going home today [along Harts Road] are going to be able to breathe and feel much safer when they don t see all that trash at Gold Rush.
The officials emergency suspension order states that the 89-unit Gold Rush Inn, one of three motels on the busy road just north of Dunn Avenue, has shown abject disregard for the health and safety of its guests by continuing to operate despite recent and repeated serious and many times deadly violence there.