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News@breezenewspapers.com The past eight months have shown a steady increase in pediatric Baker Act admissions

For the first time, the number of Baker Act exams in Florida decreased. Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone explains why, and some say, the pandemic doesn’t explain it all.

The 14-year-old girl had been accused of setting fire to wooded lots in Palm Coast in April when she was charged with two felonies.

Bay Area non-profit uses technology to help officers respond to mental health calls Justin Matthews reports CLEARWATER, Fla. - The Largo Police Department teamed up with Clearwater-based non-profit organization Directions for Living for a program that uses technology to help officers respond to mental health-related calls for service. Direction for Living's "TRACE" program connects people who call the police for help with a licensed clinician using a video conference call with a tablet. "They respond to a call, if they believe that there is a mental health component to that call, they hit the...

The Palm Beach Post on the Florida governor’s banning of COVID-19 ‘vaccine passports’: Gov. Ron DeSantis says he is taking a bold step toward protecting personal freedom in barring any businesses in Florida from requiring so-called “vaccination passports”. As his argument goes, we don’t want another division in this country, this time between a vaccinated class that gets to go to theme parks - and an unvaccinated class that can’t. The governor’s argument makes no sense. The issue before us is one of public health. And there is no question that vaccinations are the most effecti...