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State pardons gym owners over facemask violations Updated:  Tags:  Mike Carnevale was charged with three misdemeanors after allowing patrons to workout last summer without facemasks. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Clemency Board pardoned a husband and wife Wednesday on charges they violated local emergency orders in Broward County last year. Their crime: refusing to require their 2,000 patrons to wear masks while working out. The business, owned by Mike and Jillian Carnevale, was seized and closed. Mike Carnevale was hit with three misdemeanor charges. DeSantis call...

Mark Schlakman Florida’s Clemency Board didn’t actually do much to help felons regain the right to vote | Column The newest reforms appear to be far less than they may have seemed.     Florida's Cabinet: From left, Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis. Its members met as the Clemency Board last week. [ News Service of Florida ] Published Mar. 15 Updated Mar. 15 Florida’s Board of Executive Clemency seemed to advance major reforms last week regarding how most people who have served...

The Florida Clemency Board voted Wednesday to automatically restore most civil rights stripped from felons once they've completed their sentences. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed the new rules to streamline the restoration of rights. He and the independently elected Cabinet members that serve as the Clemency Board voted unanimously to approve them. DeSantis said he proposed the changes in part to address a 2018 constitutional amendment, known as Amendment 4, that was designed to restore voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences. The new rules will still require felons t...

Florida will soon lower COVID vaccine age eligibility to 55 Follow Us Question of the Day By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press - Wednesday, March 10, 2021 MIAMI (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that after the state makes people 60 and older eligible for the COVID vaccine on Monday, it will soon lower the age to 55 and then probably open it up to the rest of the population. The governor said at a news conference in Sumterville, Florida that the process of vaccinating those between 60 and 64 may go qui...

Advocate says it’s important to recognize victory of Florida’s clemency changes DeSantis, Cabinet back sweeping changes to clemency process Published:  Tags:  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – For the past decade, felons in Florida have had to wait at least five years after being released from prison before becoming eligible to have their civil rights restored. But Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet, acting as the Board of Executive Clemency, did away with the waiting periods on Wednesday. It opens the door for thousands of so-called “returning citizens” to have their rights restored. It...