Gainesville Police Department Chief of Police, Tony Jones, discussed crime statistics, personnel recruiting and progress with disproportionate minority contact efforts in a town hall Tuesday.
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This was the scene of Parkland's "March For Our Lives," one of more than 800 similar events taking place around the world.
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WUFT reports on the March For Our Lives gathering at the Bo Diddley Plaza in Gainesville.
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WUFT News will have reporters in four locations on Saturday at 11 a.m. during the March For Our Lives events nationwide.
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Congressman Ted Yoho listened to high school students expressing their concerns about school safety and gun control.
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High school students across North Central Florida joined their counterparts nationwide to walk out of school Wednesday morning in solidarity and protest over gun violence reform.
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The demonstrations will last 17 minutes to honor the 17 killed last month. "If the government wants to keep getting paid, they need to listen to what we say," a Boise, Idaho, student said.
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The Florida House and Senate ended the 2018 legislative session Sunday by passing a budget and a tax-cut package for the upcoming year. The session was largely dominated by the aftermath of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, sparking debate about state gun laws and school safety. Here's a recap of the big issues.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a far-reaching school-safety bill Friday that places new restrictions on guns, cementing his state's break with the National Rifle Association and decades of Republican thinking on gun control in the aftermath of the Parkland high school attack.
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All eyes are now on Republican Gov. Rick Scott to see if he'll sign the Florida legislature's narrowly approved response to last month's high school massacre of 17 people, a measure that isn't what he called for, falls short of what survivors demanded and challenges National Rifle Association orthodoxy.
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