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A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy was heading east on Interstate 4 in his red Dodge Charger on a brilliantly sunny afternoon in Florida when he saw him: A young driver behind the wheel of a Jeep texting on his phone. The deputy, Donald Hess, didn't hit his lights and siren right away. He watched over more than a mile while he pulled around both sides of the Jeep, he said, as the driver kept texting before he pulled him over on the I-4 shoulder. When the driver rolled down his window, the deputy waved away a cloud of smoke. "How much weed have you all been smoking?" the deputy said. "The ...

Florida’s census of texting violations, published earlier this year, is missing tickets entirely from more than 20 of the state’s 67 sheriff’s departments and at least 56 of 155 municipal police departments.

This frame grab from police body cam video shows Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy Donald Hess gesturing to driver Antonio Sims Jr., 25, of Tampa during a traffic stop along Interstate 4 on Nov. 18, 2020. Hess ticketed Sims $113 for violating Florida's new texting-while-driving law, which is rarely enforced statewide. A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy was heading east on Interstate 4 in his red Dodge Charger on a brilliantly sunny afternoon in Florida when he saw him: A young driver behind the wheel of a Jeep texting on his phone. The deputy, Donald Hess, didn't hit his lights and si...

Published February 19, 2021 at 5:35 PM EST Listen • 50:57 / The Miami Herald Sarita Sanmiguel’s kindergarten class at Redland Elementary in south Miami-Dade on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, the first day that Miami-Dade public school students returned to their classrooms, after learning remotely since March due to the coronavirus pandemic. South Florida teachers union leaders say CDC protocols are being followed but more work flexibility is needed. Also, a "vicious and violent" murder of a Black transgender woman highlights violence faced by the community. Public sch...

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” o...