Activists across Florida are condemning the Florida Legislature s approval of House Bill 1, the so-called anti-riot bill that Gov. Ron DeSantis put forward last year.
The bill won the final approval of the Florida Senate on Thursday and has become one of the most controversial items of the 2021 Florida legislative session.
DeSantis proposed the new legislation following the Black Lives Matter protests that occurred across the country last year following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. The bill was officially filed in the Legislature the same day as the Capitol Hill riot in Washington, D.C. This is a very robust package, DeSantis said when he outlined tougher penalties against protesters, most of which are contained in HB 1. I think what it s saying is we are not going to let Florida go down the road that some of these other places have gone.
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DCPS holds first public meeting on renaming Lee High School
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The public once again got the chance to weigh-in on renaming some of Duval County’s public schools, which are named after Confederate leaders.
Four schools had meetings Wednesday, including Lee High School, where demonstrators gathered ahead of the 6 p.m. discussion.
The Northside Coalition of Jacksonville was part of the demonstration. It supports the effort to rename the schools.
“We enthusiastically support the school board’s decision and we are encouraging them to move forward with all deliberate speed,” the coalition said Tuesday in a prepared statement.
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.