The orders from the University of Florida are a response to rising anxieties about the illness on a campus with more than 6,000 international students amid the virus’s rapid global spread – even though there have been no reported cases in Florida.
Read More »Florida Courts Face The Challenge Of Collecting Thousands In Fines And Fees Owed By Ex-Felons
A new government study by the Florida Legislature’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability shows Florida courts have a remarkably difficult job collecting fees and fines in criminal cases – failures that now have a direct impact on the ability of ex-felons to vote in future elections after they serve their prison sentences.
Read More »In Reversal, Florida To Allow Elbow Strikes By Fighters In Muay Thai Martial Arts Matches
After two years of consideration, the Florida Boxing Commission has decided to relax its ban on elbow strikes and allow the use of elbows in sanctioned matches.
Read More »Florida Senate Passes Parental Consent Bill
Florida’s Republican-majority Senate passed a bill Thursday requiring underage girls to obtain consent from a parent before they can have an abortion. Senators voted 23-17 along party lines.
Read More »Child Sex Abuse Survivors Seek To End Statute Of Limitations
Florida lawmakers are considering a pair of bills that would lift the statute of limitations for victims of child sex abuse and establish a Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights.
Read More »Florida Supreme Court Questions Clarity Of Proposed Assault Weapons Ban
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, who asked for the opinion, said voters would be confused by the meaning and ramifications of the proposal.
Read More »Proposed Bill Scratches At Key Cat Issue, Would Ban Declawing
Florida would become the second state to prohibit the procedure after New York, which banned it last summer.
Read More »Florida On Path To Require Anyone Under 18 To Obtain Parent’s Permission For Abortions
The Senate is expected to vote on the measure next week. If the House approves it as expected in coming weeks – the governor already said he will sign it into law – Florida would become the 27th state to impose parental consent legislation for abortions.
Read More »Florida Wrestles With Prison Conditions, Including Emotional Trauma On Guards
Difficult experiences as a Florida correctional officer are driving serious problems in the state’s prisons: Florida can’t hire enough guards, can’t keep employed the guards it hires, copes with frequent cases of guards accused of abusing inmates and struggles to accommodate the emotional trauma that guards sometimes say they suffer behind bars.
Read More »State Still Working Out Flaws With Firefighter Cancer Bill
When Brian Kernohan complained to his doctor of merciless headaches two summers ago, he expected to get a prescription for a sinus infection, not a diagnosis of brain cancer. The 37-year-old firefighter’s eardrums were curved inward, so his doctor suggested a CT scan. It found a tumor the size of …
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