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Supreme Court Will Decide Legality of Transgender Care Bans in Decision That Will Affect Florida Law

June 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether a Tennessee law restricting puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender children is unconstitutional, in a closely watched case that is almost certain to affect similar laws in Florida and more than a dozen other states. Justices will hear the case in the fall, with a decision likely coming in June or July 2025.

DeSantis Protects Left-Lane Laggards and Residents Who Shoot Bears in ‘Stand Your Ground’ Encounters

June 23, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The killing of bears is about to increase in Florida. (FWC)

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a controversial measure that will bolster self-defense arguments for people who kill bears on their property, while vetoing a bill that would have prevented motorists from cruising in the left lanes of highways.

Flagler County’s Unemployment Rate Declines to 3.6%, But Growth in Working-Age Labor Force Stalls

June 21, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Flagler County’s May unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, down from 3.9 percent in April, as the rate continues to oscillate within the same narrow band it has for a year and a half. Previously steady growth in the labor force, however, has stalled. After rising earlier this year, it declined for the second month in a row, to 51,383, almost exactly where it stood a year ago. The labor force reflects working-age adults with families as opposed to children or retirees, who account for 60 percent of the county’s population.

Florida Supreme Court Finds No Threat to ‘Peaceful’ Protest in DeSantis Restrictions on Protesters

June 20, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Rejecting arguments that the law is ambiguous, the Florida Supreme Court said Thursday that peaceful protesters are not threatened by a measure that Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature passed in 2021 to crack down on violent demonstrations.

At ‘Monumental Groundbreaking’ for Beach-Rebuilding, Shovels of Praise, But Not a Word About Climate Change

June 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Shovels against nature: the site of this morning's ceremonial groundbreaking. (© FlaglerLive)

Federal, state and local officials gathered at veterans Park in Flagler Beach under a broiling sun this morning for the groundbreaking of the $27 million beach-rebuilding project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a project 20 years in the making. Officials exchanged heaps of praise, but a principal reason behind the project–climate change–was left unspoken in a state where the words are now banned.

Social Media and Gun Laws Await Supreme Court Rulings, with Big Implications for Florida

June 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Anybody's platforms. (© FlaglerLive)

The social-media ruling likely will decide whether Florida can carry out a 2021 state law that placed restrictions on platforms such as Facebook and X. The gun ruling in a Texas case could help determine the fate of a 2018 Florida law that barred people under age 21 from buying rifles and shotguns.

Integrity Florida Calls on Governor DeSantis to Veto Senate Bill 7014

June 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Wish lists have an advantage in a one-party state. (Facebook)

This bill threatens to undermine the very principles that our government should uphold. The bill includes provisions that would restrict the ability of citizens and watchdog organizations like Integrity Florida to hold elected officials accountable.

Florida Argues in Court It Is Free to Censor or Control State-School Professors’ Academic Freedom in Classrooms

June 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The University of South Florida. (USF Facebook page)

The state of Florida is free to forbid college professors from criticizing the governor in the classroom, an attorney argued on behalf of the state during an appellate court hearing over the Stop Woke Act — adding that those professors are free to seek work elsewhere if they don’t like a legislature-controlled curriculum.  Academic freedom and when the government can insert itself into the classroom were focal points for a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit panel.

Amendment 5: I’m Homesteaded. I Don’t Need Another Perk To Deepen Inequalities and Hurt Local Governments.

June 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

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A yes vote on Florida’s Amendment 5 on this November’s ballot means that every year, the second of two $25,000 exemptions will increase according to the previous year’s inflation rate. The indexing is not only unnecessary–the Save Our Homes cap on taxes already does that–but it’s another pander that will deepen disparities at the expense of local governments, businesses, renters and agricultural properties, all of whom will have to make up for lost revenue. 

Sidestepping Executive Privilege, Appeal Court Sides with DeSantis on Records Denial, Calling Request ‘Overly Broad’

June 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Government in the Sunshine by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

The appeal stemmed from a public-records request, filed by a person identified in court documents as J. Doe, seeking information from DeSantis’ office about influential conservatives involved in discussions about appointing Florida Supreme Court justices. In a subsequent lawsuit, Leon County Circuit Judge Angela Dempsey rejected the public-records request on a series of grounds, including that the governor had “executive privilege” that could be used to prevent release of certain documents.

Humbling Flagler, DeSantis Vetoes Almost a Third of Local Projects, Including YMCA, Tourist Center, and All Bunnell’s Asks

June 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis with local county and city officials during a visit to Flagler Beach in late 2022, along with Reps. Paul Renner and Tom Leek. DeSantis vetoed almost a third of the appropriations Renner and Sen. Travis Hutson had secured for the county and its cities. (© FlaglerLive)

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a $116.5 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, after vetoing close to $950 million in spending approved by lawmakers in March. The vetoes include $46.52 million from what had been a record $151 million in appropriations for Flagler County, Palm Coast, Bunnell and Flagler Beach, a heavy loss that dampens earlier hopes for a big haul.

Federal Judge Stops Florida’s Law Banning or Restricting Transgender Care, Calling It Discriminatory

June 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

For now. But the ruling is unlikely to survive an appeal to the right-leaning 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. (© FlaglerLive)

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a 2023 Florida law and regulations prohibiting the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy to treat children for gender dysphoria and making it harder for trans adults to access care are unconstitutionally discriminatory and were motivated by “animus” toward transgender people.

DeSantis Is Right: Even As a Convicted Felon, Trump Would Be Eligible to Vote in Florida

June 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Trump ponders the meaning of bars. (White House)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 7 suggested on X that former President Donald Trump is still eligible to vote in Florida, his home state, even though he is now a convicted felon 34 times over. DeSantis is correct, though not necessarily for all the reason he stated on X.

Judge Blocks Florida Law Requiring Cities’ Elected to Disclose Same Financial Details as County and State Officials

June 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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A federal judge has blocked a 2023 Florida law that required municipal elected officials to disclose detailed information about their personal finances, ruling that the law likely violated First Amendment rights. U.S. District Judge Melissa Damian on Monday issued a preliminary injunction, siding with municipal officials throughout the state who challenged the law. The decision came three weeks before a July 1 deadline for filing the information.

In Florida and Elsewhere, New GOP Rules Hostile to Voter Registration Threaten Fines and Criminal Penalties

June 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 50 Comments

Roxanne Perret, an organizer with People Power for Florida, registers Mark Wendell to vote at a May festival in Orlando. Third-party voter registration groups have been threatened with fines and workers with jail time if they violate new state laws.

Republican lawmakers in Florida , Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, and Texas have enacted a variety of voter registration laws over the past four years. The measures add new requirements around registering and communicating with voters and threaten hefty penalties for violations. The stated goal of the new laws is to prevent fraud, but in the absence of any evidence of more than very rare fraud some voting rights groups contend their real purpose is to dampen participation by likely Democratic voters.

Parents Sue Florida Board of Education Over Policy Denying Them Right to Challenge Book Bans

June 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The Flagler Palm Coast High School library a year ago. (© FlaglerLive)

Three parents of children attending Florida public schools filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Florida Board of Education on Thursday, claiming that a 2023 education law discriminates against parents who oppose book bans and censorship.

Sprawling Vacation Rentals Becoming a Nuisance to Palm Coast Residents. City’s Answer: ‘Our Hands Are Tied.’

June 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

A property on Fircrest Lane in Palm COast advertised as a short-term rental that can sleep 12 people. (Google)

As resident after resident complained about short-term renters next door–the noise, the partying, the traffic, the garbage, the unexpected–the Palm Coast City Council chambers Tuesday evening sounded more like a scene transplanted from the County Commission a decade ago, or legislative committees in Tallahassee every year since. But the legislature just passed a new law that forbids cities like Palm Coast from imposing stricter regulations on vacation rentals than they would on permanent residents.

Florida’s High School Athletes Cleared to Get Paid by Sponsors Starting in Fall

June 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The FHSAA’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve a seismic change in the organization’s bylaws to allow athletes to be compensated for their name, image and likeness, or NIL. The changes will be in effect for the upcoming school year.

Scott DuPont Appeals Decision Booting Him Off August Ballot for Judge in Local Circuit

June 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Scott DuPont during his electoral run in 2016. (© FlaglerLive)

n attorney for Scott DuPont filed a notice of appeal last week after Leon County Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh ruled that DuPont was ineligible to run for judge in the 7th Judicial Circuit, which is made up of St. Johns, Putnam, Flagler and Volusia counties.

Down-Ballot Effect in Florida of Trump Conviction Is Unlikely, But It’s a Fund-Raising Boon to Ex-President

June 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Political experts don’t anticipate last week’s conviction of former President Donald Trump in New York will create significant down-ballot momentum — either way — for candidates in Florida. Fundraising has ratcheted up after Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records, but experts in Florida pointed to issues such as voters already having their minds made up.

DeSantis Says New College Is Now Like When ‘Founding Fathers’ Went to School

June 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

A gravure of a slave market in the 18th century, around the time "founding fathers" went to school. (NYPL Digital Collection)

Speaking Saturday at New College in Sarasota, DeSantis boasted that the school has been wrested away from “the Left,” and is now akin to places that the property-owning white men who established the United States learned.

Sea Level Rise Make Florida’s ‘Beach Renourishments’ More Frequent, Expensive and Vain

June 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

The stormy months ahead may not be kind of Flagler County's shore even as the Army Corps of Engineers begins the most ambitious and expensive beach-reconstruction project in the county's history. (© FlaglerLive)

The barrier islands keep moving, which foolish humans label “beach erosion” as they keep trying to bend nature to their will by trucking or dredging in lots of sand from somewhere else for millions of dollars. The Corps of Engineers, the government agency in charge of playing in such big sandboxes, always claims they’re “saving” the beach from disappearing. They aren’t. They’re just saving a lot of people’s investments as “fiscal conservatives” spend tax money on beaches sure washed away in the next storm.

Supervisors of Election Push Back Against Proposed DeSantis Rule On Determining Voter Intent

June 1, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A Flagler County Canvassing Board meeting during the November 2018 election cycle. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida supervisors of elections are pushing back on a rule proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to update standards for determining voters’ intent on ballots, saying the proposal includes “inconsistencies” that could lead to problems for county canvassing boards.

Lured by State’s $3,000 ‘Civics’ Bonus, Thousands of Florida Teachers Train in Christian Nationalist Tenets

May 31, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis with some of the 4,500 Florida teachers who last year completed the Civics Seal of Excellence endorsement course and receive a $3,000 bonus, according to a release issued by the governor's office.

Training materials produced by the Florida Department of Education direct middle and high school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism, a right-wing effort to merge Christian and American identities. Thousands of Florida teachers, lured by cash stipends, have attended trainings featuring these materials.  

Among Florida Politicians, Trump Verdict Draws Predictable Outrage from GOP, Praise from Democrats

May 30, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 67 Comments

How his hometown paper covered it.

Florida Republicans on Thursday quickly attacked the conviction of former President Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records, while Democrats said the verdict showed nobody is above the law. A 12-member jury returned the verdict more than a month after the criminal hush-money trial began in New York and after just one day of deliberations. Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime after leaving office.

Florida High School Athletic Association Replaces Word ‘Gender’ With ‘Sex’ in Snub at Anti-Discrimination Guidelines

May 29, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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The State Board of Education on Wednesday approved changes in the Florida High School Athletic Association’s bylaws that include replacing mentions of the word “gender” with the word “sex,” amid a larger dispute between federal and state officials. The changes came as Florida and other Republican-led states are challenging a Biden administration rule that would help carry out Title IX, a decades-old law that bars discrimination in education programs based on sex.

Supreme Court Rejects Challenges to Florida’s Use of 6-Person Juries in Most Felony Trials Instead of 12

May 28, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The U.S. Supreme Court did not explain its reasons for declining to take up 13 cases challenging Florida’s use of only six jurors in most felony trials. But Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a dissenting opinion that said the court should reconsider a 1970 ruling in a Florida case, saying the constitutional right to trial by a jury is not met by six-member juries.

Bluelining: How Home Insurers Are Spurning Entire Communities

May 27, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

When the Intracoastal Waterway is not just a nice view in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Bluelining is an insidious practice with similarities to redlining — the notorious government-sanctioned practice of financial institutions denying mortgages and credit to Black and brown communities, which were often marked by red lines on map. These days, financial institutions are now drawing “blue lines” around many of these same communities, restricting services like insurance based on environmental risks.

Is the Armadillo Spreading Leprosy in Central Florida?

May 27, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Leprosy remains rare in the United States. But Florida, which often reports the most cases of any state, has seen an uptick in patients. The epicenter is east of Orlando. Brevard County reported a staggering 13% of the nation’s 159 leprosy cases in 2020. Leprosy experts believe armadillos play a role in spreading the illness to people.

Florida’s Attorney General Calls Starbucks’ Diverse Hiring ‘Illegal’

May 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Florida’s Attorney General took to a national radio show hosted by Gov. Ron DeSantis–he was sitting in for Sean Hannity–to charge that Starbucks’s pledge to hire people of color in 30 to 40 percent of its positions violates the law.

Governor Ron Wants to Pay High School Athletes. But Not At Your School.

May 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Caesar Campana in his coaching days, furing a Flagler Palm Coast High School-Matanzas High School match in 2010. (© FlaglerLive)

Former Flagler Palm Coast High School Head Football Coach Caesar Campana takes on a proposal by the Florida High School Athletic Association to allow student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness under what is commonly known as an NIL policy. But while the policy has a place in college sports, it will further divide high school sports between the haves and the have-nots, particularly favoring private schools and leaving public schools behind.

Florida Preparing for a Hurricane Season with Up to 25 Named Storms

May 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

North Flagler Avenue in Flagler Beach on Nov 22, 2022. (© FlaglerLive)

Echoing earlier predictions about the season that will start June 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday pointed to warm ocean waters and forecast up to 25 named storms, with up to 13 reaching hurricane strength and four to seven packing Category 3 or stronger winds.

St. Augustine/St. Johns County Win Nod for Museum of Black History; Getting It Built Is Next Challenge

May 22, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Ralph Abernathy, left, and Martin Luther King Jr. in St. Augustine in 1964, when King said he was leading "a massive assault against segregation." (Florida Memory)

A state task force assessing possible sites for a proposed Florida Museum of Black History voted 5-4 Tuesday in favor of St. Johns County, where Martin Luther King once rallied protests against segregation in the city of St. Augustine but where the site would require extensive development, including roadbuilding. The close vote followed intense lobbying by St. Augustine/St. Johns, which branched out to support from surrounding counties, including Flagler County, where Palm Coast and the School Board lent support.

Former Recruit Sues UF Over $14 Million Endorsement Deal Gone Sour

May 21, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Saying his experience is “emblematic of the abuses running rampant in the world of big-time college football,” Jaden Rashada , a former high-school star quarterback on Tuesday filed a lawsuit accusing University of Florida football coach Billy Napier, a top Gators booster and others of wrongdoing related to a $13.85 million endorsement deal gone sour.

Federal Appeals Court Will Decide Whether Florida Ban on Strippers Younger Than 21 Is Constitutional

May 20, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments June 6 in Jacksonville about whether a city ordinance barring dancers under 21 in adult establishments violates First Amendment rights.

Florida City Calls for Protection of Civilians in Gaza and Israel. DeSantis Calls It “Fraud.”

May 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Israel's war on Gaza has resulted in the death of some 35,000 Palestinians so far. (B'Tselem)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday blasted a resolution passed by a local government last week in Miami-Dade County — the most populous county in Florida — that calls for supporting peace and security for “all innocent civilians in Israel, Gaza and Occupied Palestinian Territories.” Gov. DeSantis called it a “fraud.”

Ballot Proposal to Adjust Homestead Exempting to Inflation Would Hurt Renters, Businesses and Local Governments

May 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

The proposal would only shift more of the tax burden toward renters and businesses. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida voters will get to decide in the November election whether to shield more of the value of their homes from property taxes under a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution, but the measure might mean higher taxes for renters, landlords, and other commercial property owners.

1st Three Months of 2024 Drew Record Number of Tourists to Florida

May 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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An estimated 40.6 million people traveled to Florida during the first three months of the year, a 1.2 percent increase from the same period in 2023. The state also issued revisions that increased totals for all of 2023.

Florida’s High School Athletes Could Soon Get Paid Through Endorsement Deals

May 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The Florida High School Athletic Association held a discussion Tuesday about a potential change to the organization’s bylaws that would allow student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness under what is commonly known as an NIL policy. The 13-member board, which includes eight members appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in August, is slated to vote on the proposal during a June 4 meeting.

DeSantis Signs Bills Adding Judges and Revising “Live Local Act”

May 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed 11 bills, including a measure that will increase the number of circuit-court and county judges and a bill that will revise a major housing law, known as the “Live Local Act,” that passed in 2023.

Lawyers for Judge Rose Marie Preddy File for Final Judgment Against Scott DuPont’s Qualification to Run

May 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Circuit Judge Rose Marie Preddy. (© FlaglerLive)

Lawyers for Circuit Judge Rose Marie Preddy, who sits in Putnam County, have filed a motion for a final judgment against Scott DuPont’s qualification to run again for judgeship as he is attempting to do against Preddy in this year’s election. DuPont was booted off the bench in 2018 and suspended from practicing law in 2019 after he was found to have acted with egregious misconduct during his 2016 re-election run and on several occasions in court, as a sitting judge in Flagler County or Putnam Counties.

Judge Rules Unconstitutional Part of Florida Law Forbidding Non-Citizens from Gathering Petitions

May 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

It's much harder to find petition-gatherers. (Erin M McCuskey)

A federal judge Wednesday issued a final decision blocking part of a 2023 Florida elections law that placed new restrictions on voter-registration groups, including preventing non-U.S. citizens from “collecting or handling” registration applications.

Bacardi Jackson , New Florida ACLU Leader, Points to ‘Urgency of Now’ at ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Juncture

May 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Bacardi Jackson by "The Embrace," the Hank Willis Thomas sculpture on Boston Common in Boston. (Instagram)

Bacardi Jackson, a veteran litigator seeped in civil-rights advocacy, took the leadership of of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida on Monday amid a growing number of challenges to laws passed by the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Jackson views her new position as an opening to spur action at a critical juncture in the history of the state and the nation.

DeSantis Office Dismissed from Open Records Case Over Travels, But Lawsuit Against FDLE Continues

May 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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A Leon County circuit judge has dismissed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office from a lawsuit filed by the Washington Post over access to DeSantis’ travel records. Judge J. Lee Marsh this week issued a nine-page ruling that said DeSantis’ office is not the “custodian” of disputed records held by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The ruling did not dismiss the case against the law-enforcement agency.

Florida Opposes Federal Rule to Limit Power Plants’ Greenhouse Emissions

May 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Florida and two dozen other states Thursday filed a legal challenge to a new U.S. Environmental Protection rule aimed at reducing carbon emissions from power plants. The states filed a petition at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that alleged the EPA overstepped its legal authority.

Florida Chancellor Balks at Extending In-State Tuition to Pacific Islanders

May 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The Marshall Islands are not likely to send a swarm of applicants to Florida colleges. (Keith Polya)

The tuition breaks, required by a new federal law, would apply to students from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau. The small Pacific Island nations entered into what are known as “Compacts of Free Association” with the U.S. starting in the 1980s.

Recording Someone Without Permission Is Illegal in Florida. What If the Recorder Is in Ohio?

May 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Justices are grappling with whether gamer David Race, who lives in Ohio, violated Florida law when he secretly recorded fellow gamer Billy Mitchell without the Broward County resident’s permission. Florida is one of 11 states that require all parties to consent to being recorded.

Flagler School Board Will Send Letter of Support for Locating Museum of Black History in St. Johns

May 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Following the recommendation of Will Furry, its chair, the Flagler County School Board will send a letter of support to a state task force in hopes of luring the future Museum of Black History to St. Johns County. St. Johns was ranked first among three finalists for the location. Its competitors are Eatonville in Orange County and Opa-locka in Miami-Dade County.

DeSantis Lawyer Argues Governor’s ‘Executive Privilege’ Places Him Above Public Record Law

May 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

The DeSantis administration argues that some of the governor's records may be blurred from public view. (© FlaglerLive)

In a case that could have far-reaching implications for the state’s public-records laws, an appeals court heard arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a judge’s ruling that “executive privilege” shields Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration from releasing records. During Tuesday’s arguments before a three-judge panel of the Tallahassee-based 1st District Court of Appeal, the plaintiff’s attorney said that the constitutional right to public records does not include an exemption for the governor’s records.

Florida Law Restricting Property Ownership By Nationals of 7 Countries Draws 2nd Discrimination Lawsuit

May 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A Florida law forbidding certain property ownership by nationals of seven countries harkens back to the days of housing discrimination. (Florida Memory)

Almost exactly a year after Florida lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis approved a measure to restrict property ownership by people from China and six other countries, housing and real-estate groups Monday filed a federal lawsuit alleging it is discriminatory. The lawsuit, filed in Miami, contends that the law violates the federal Fair Housing Act and part of the Florida Constitution.

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