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.
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Anthony Steven Guevara, 20, of Naples was charged Oct. 28 – days before the 2020 election – with unauthorized computer access and altering someone else’s voter registration without their permission, both felonies.
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Weeks later, twenty-three Floridians have been charged in the Jan. 6 raid on the Capitol, representing nearly one-in-10 of the total.
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Lost lives. Lost jobs. Lost classrooms. Lost opportunities. Lost time with families. A lost year.
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A top Florida law enforcement official told Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state leaders Tuesday that “extremely lax” security at a municipal water plant northwest of Tampa allowed hackers to break into its computers to try to poison residents earlier this year. The head of the Florida Department of Law …
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A trio of bills filed by Democrats in South Florida are taking aim at legal holidays honoring the Confederacy and its leaders.
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Lawmakers in Florida, where private firm SpaceX is increasingly launching missions to outer space, are considering a bill to add criminal penalties for anyone who finds a spacecraft or parts of one and tries to keep it.
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In his annual State of the State address on the opening day of Florida’s Legislature, DeSantis said the economy was better than expected here despite the pandemic, with most public school classrooms open for students, most businesses up and running and efforts focused on vaccinating the elderly.
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Tao Li, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was placed on leave Feb. 15, according to a letter in his personnel file obtained under Florida’s public records law.
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In the face of stark local environmental opposition, a state water board on Tuesday unanimously approved “with protest” about 1 million gallons daily for Nestle's bottled water business from one of the treasured natural springs along the Santa Fe River in north central Florida.
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