TALLAHASSEE
Former state data analyst Rebekah Jones continued her aggressive defense against the allegations lodged against her by the DeSantis administration and late Sunday filed a complaint in Leon County Circuit Court alleging that state police who raided her home on Dec. 7 violated her
constitutional rights of free speech and due process.
Jones, who has appeared on numerous cable news shows defending herself, alleges in the new complaint
that the basis of the search warrant used by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was “a sham” designed to punish her for speaking out against Gov. Ron DeSantis for ”refusing to falsify statistics on a ‘dashboard’ she had created for [the Department of Health].” In May, DOH fired Jones for insubordination and she subsequently filed a whistle-blower complaint against the state.
Rebekah Jones files lawsuit against FDLE, calls raid on Tallahassee home a sham
Posted at 12:02 PM, Dec 21, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-21 15:20:37-05
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â Ousted Florida Department of Health scientist Rebekah Jones has sued the Florida Department of Law Enforcement following a raid at her Tallahassee home earlier this month.
Jones lawyer filed the lawsuit on her behalf Sunday night in Leon County Circuit Court.
The lawsuit contends that FDLE commissioner Rick Swearingen and two other FDLE agents, including ranking FDLE agent Noel Pratts, violated her First, Fourth and 14th Amendment rights, and the law, in the raid on her home on Dec. 7.
Florida’s elected clerks have worked their way into the heart of the court system by acting as online cashier and collecting millions of dollars in “convenience” fees through a for-profit corporation that is owned by the clerks and avoids sunshine laws.
Florida clerks association and Civitek books show assets of $26 million.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CN) In a two-story brick building, sandwiched between a townhouse community and a small shopping plaza on the north side of Tallahassee, dozens of employees process hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of electronic payments coming through Florida’s vast court system.
Every time an attorney files a lawsuit, a couple submits divorce papers, or a parent makes a child support payment, and pays with a credit card, this company, CiviTek, charges a 3.5% convenience fee raking in tens of millions of dollars a year.