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Online Anonymity: ‘Stable Pseudonyms’ Create a More Civil Environment than Real User Names

November 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Research suggests that anonymity – under certain conditions – can actually make for more civil and productive online discussion. This surprising result came out of a study looking at the deliberative quality of comments on online news articles under a range of different identity rules.

Help Make Flagler County Known for Progress, Tolerance and Growth Instead of Ignorance and Hate

November 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Courtney Hildreth addressing the Flagler County Scvhool Board Tuesday evening. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler Schools TV)

Offering the perspective of a parent, Palm Coast resident Courtney Hildreth calls on the Flagler School Board to re-focus on academic and intellectual freedom, ensuring access to age-appropriate literature, filling classroom vacancies, and preserving principles of equity and acceptance.

Potential Book Ban in Schools Galvanizes 2 Sides in Day of Highs and Lows as Sheriff Recoils at Criminal Complaint

November 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

A student-led demonstration in defense of book titles under review for potential bans by the district, with stacks of the books, all of them donated for distribution, at the ready. The demonstration was organized by Jack Petcocz, a student at Flagler Palm Coast High School. (© FlaglerLive)

the Flagler County School Board today contended with the fallout of a criminal complaint and call for a book ban filed by Board member Jill Woolbright, and did so for 10 hours, from a lengthy and at times ugly workshop to a student-led demonstration marred by harassment and insults by detractors to an evening meeting that stretched past 11 p.m.

Transgender and Gender Diverse Teens: How to Talk To and Support Them

November 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The webinar speakers, Jules Gill-Peterson (left) and Kacie Kidd. (courtesy of the scholars)

Transgender youth have been around long before the word transgender has. Yet today, transgender teens are increasingly visible in society. For parents and caregivers, knowing how to talk to their children about gender can present a steep learning curve.

The Flagler School Board’s Shameless War on Equity

November 13, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 34 Comments

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The Flagler school board doesn’t believe in equality anymore. The administration, out of fear and misplaced pragmatism, is abandoning the word “equity” and replacing it with a bromide of a euphemism–“student success”–in appeasement of a faction led by School Board members Jill Woolbright and Janet McDonald, the same board members targeting books and instructional materials with anti-racism and other minority-oriented themes.

11 White Jurors and One Black Juror: Ahmaud Arbery and the Limits of Justice

November 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Jogging while Black. Driving while Black. Walking while Black. Sitting in a public space while Black. Asking for help while Black. Eating while Black. Merely existing while Black. The cold, agonizing, disturbing truth is that to be Black in America is to regularly endure an ongoing onslaught of assaults and insults. These incidents are a stark reminder that to be Black in America means to live in a constant state of uncertainty.

Vague and Controversial Parents’ Bill of Rights Will Get Renewed Focus in Special Session of Legislature Next Week

November 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

State Rep. Erin Grall sponsored the parental "Bill of Rights" in 2021. (Florida House)

The Parents’ Bill of Rights, sponsored by State Rep. Erin Grall in the 2021 legislative session, was criticized for its vague language and unclear boundaries. But it became a clarion call for parent power as local school boards developed Covid policies impacting students, and a mask mandate debacle that pitted the executive branch against local school boards.

Jill Woolbright Wants 4 Books Banned Over Anti-Racism, LGBTQ, Police Violence and Rape Themes; District Removes Them Pending Review

November 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

Flagler County School Board member considers it a "crime" that "All Boys Aren't Blue" is allowed in Flagler school libraries. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux and © FlaglerLive)

Copycatting a tactic developing across the country and targeting the same books, Flagler County School Board member Jill Woolbright wants four books removed. The books, award winners and critically acclaimed, deal with LGBTQ themes, anti-racism, police shootings, and the trauma of rape. Three are by Black authors.

School Surveillance of Students Through Laptops May Be Doing More Harm Than Good

November 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Student surveillance is taking place – at taxpayer expense – in cities and school communities throughout the United States. In one large district, three-quarters of incidents reported – that is, cases where the system flagged students’ online activity – took place outside school hours.

UF Backs Off Gag Order on 3 Professors Testifying in Challenge to Restrictive Voting Law

November 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The First Amendment reappeared on the University of Florida's horizon after a struggle. (© FlaglerLive)

But the university drew national attention and widespread criticism after a court document revealed last week that the school was blocking the professors from testifying.

New Laws’ Fiscal-Impact Statements Are Routine. Now, Some States Push for Racial-Impact Statements.

November 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Kind of what Diego Rivera used to do decades ago. (Mike Steele)

In many states, lawmakers long have used so-called fiscal impact statements to predict how much money proposed laws will cost or save. Now more legislators want to use racial impact statements to predict how a particular measure might harm—or help—racial and ethnic groups or widen racial disparities, though you won;t see this in Florida any time soon.

2 Flagler School Board Members Object to Black Lives Matter Language and a ‘Hate Group’ Trolls District’s Library Books

November 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

A detail from the cover of a booklet called "The U.S. Constitution: Then and Now," used in fifth grade reading classrooms in Flagler schools. A parent found parts of the booklet objectionable and is seeking to have it removed. Two school board members are receptive.

The Flagler County School Board is not banning books–yet. But two board members–Jill Woolbright and Janet McDonald–are on the warpath, playing up isolated complaints about materials they find objectional on ideological grounds and mirroring similar attempts in other districts where a few voices have capitalized on largely manufactured controversies. The board members’ moves parallel a national extremist organization’s inquiry in Flagler and other Florida counties about the district’s book holdings, especially targeting racially-conscious and LGBTQ-themed books. 

Learning Is for Commie-Pinko Wokesters and We Don’t Need Any of It Around Here

November 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

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Praise Jesus, here in Florida our governor has decreed that there will be no “The 1619 Project,” and none of that Critical Race Theory making our sweet white children hate themselves, their mamas and daddies, and their great-great-grandparents, who happened to belong to the Ku Klux Klan.

Facebook’s Misinformation Problem

November 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Leaked internal documents suggest Facebook – which recently renamed itself Meta – is doing far worse than it claims at minimizing Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on the Facebook social media platform.

K-Pop Is Trending. So Is Anti-Asian Bigotry.

October 31, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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There is no doubt that the representation of Asian people in Hollywood has improved. The pandemic has led to a disturbing rise in anti-Asian racism and hate crimes.

There Is a Vengeful America and a Just America. Guess Which Florida Promotes.

October 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Seth Penalver, left, was on death row for almost 19 years before his exoneration and release in 2013. Herman Lindsay, right, was exonerated several years ago before Penalver. They are seen here with Mark Elliott, who heads Floridians for Alternatives to the Death penalty. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida’s sentencing guidelines statute details the primary purpose of sentencing is to punish, not to rehabilitate. Honor demands vengeance. Respect commands justice. Two significantly different approaches.

Trump Wants His National Archives Papers Censored. Laws May Not Let Him.

October 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Before the establishment of the archives, many records were poorly stored. Here archives workers push a cart of Veterans Administration records into a vacuum chamber for fumigation in June 1936. Historic Photograph File of National Archives Events and Personnel, 1935 - 1975

At the center of the current conflict between Trump and the congressional committee is the status of presidential papers: Are they public or private? If they’re in the National Archives, they’re not necessarily private. Ex-presidents do not have the ability as former presidents to assert blanket executive privilege.

The Founders Didn’t Believe Your Sacred Freedom Means You Can Do Whatever the Hell You Want

October 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Gen. George Washington, center, ordered smallpox inoculations for his soldiers, saying there was ‘no possible way of saving the lives of most of those who had not had it, but by introducing innoculation generally.’ Ritchie, Alexander Hay, engraver; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

The founders agreed on one principle: They were unrelenting on the notion that circumstances often emerge that require public officials to pass acts that abridge individual freedoms. Even George Washington forced his troops to be vaccinated.

The Freedom to Vote Act Is No ‘Compromise.’ It’s an Imperative.

October 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

A very old ballot box preserved at the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections' Office in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

The Freedom to Vote Act was introduced in the Senate as the successor to the For the People Act, which was shot down twice by Republican filibusters. The new act, which has the support of all 50 Democrats in the Senate, is sometimes described as a “compromise bill,” but let’s be clear: The bill is no compromise when it comes to essential protections for voting rights.

Bisexual Superman: A Subtext Finally, Happily Out of the Closet

October 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Comic books faced increased censorship after 1954, over concerns on what was appropriate for children. (Library of Congress)

Son of Kal-El will be out this November, and will feature Jon sharing a kiss with friend and online journalist Jay Nakamura. Apart from proving Superman has always had a thing for reporters, Jon expressing his sexuality is a watershed moment in the venerable franchise.

Florida Republicans Want to Put Ban on Mask Mandates in State Law

October 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Sen. Keith Perry., a Gainesville Republican, filed the bill to enshrine bans on mask mandates in state law. (Facebook)

The proposal (SB 452), filed by Sen. Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, also would bar cities and counties from requiring people to wear masks or undergo medical procedures or treatments. It came a day after the Florida Department of Health announced it had imposed a $3.57 million fine on Leon County for requiring government employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Amid Uptick in Anti-Asian Hate, Florida Democrats Want Students to Learn More Asian American History

October 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The other pandemic. (Viviana Rishe on Unsplash)

Following 18 months of hate, violence and discrimination against Asian Americans and Asian immigrants, three Florida lawmakers want to incorporate the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders into the state’s curriculum. If approved by the Legislature and the governor, the AAPI courses and other materials would be added to required instruction under Florida law, such as history of African Americans and the history of the Holocaust.

Do Unbiased Jurors Exist in Social Media Age Anymore?

October 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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It’s a fundamental question for this era: Is it possible to find unbiased citizens to serve on a jury in high-profile cases during an age of ubiquitous social media? The dilemma facing the Supreme Court is how prescriptive they want the voir dire process to be. It could issue an opinion requiring lower courts to ask jurors more penetrating questions about their exposure to media accounts in high-profile cases.

Leon County Judge Refuses to Block Florida Law Banning Vaccine Passports

October 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Same idea, but in legalese. (Felton Davis)

The ruling by Circuit Judge Layne Smith was a victory for Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has led efforts to prevent businesses from requiring customers to show proof they are vaccinated against Covid-19 — an issue that has become known as requiring vaccine passports.

On Refugees, Joe Biden Should Emulate Canada: Go Big

October 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The capacity of private American citizens to resettle refugees is large and untapped. It may even bridge the divide over immigration in the United States. Now is the time for Biden to ask the American people to invite homeless and war-ravaged Afghan refugees into their homes and their communities.

Why It’s Time to Replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day

October 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

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Since the 1990s, a growing number of states have begun to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day – a holiday meant to honor the culture and history of the people living in the Americas both before and after Columbus’ arrival.

The Nobels: Maria Ressa Speaks Blogging to Power

October 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The importance of journalists who take considerable risks to bring people the truth in countries where this involves going up against authoritarian governments has been recognized by the Nobel committee’s decision to award the 2021 peace prize to Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia.

Journalism Wins

October 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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It is revealing that in a year that drew 329 candidates for the peace prize, including organizations fighting climate change or covid 19, the committee opted for journalists. It’s a happy surprise for us reporters. It’s also, finally, a necessary one.

How Facebook’s ‘Dangerous’ Algorithms Can Manipulate You

October 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Social media platforms rely heavily on people’s behavior to decide on the content that you see. In particular, they watch for content that people respond to or “engage” with by liking, commenting and sharing. Troll farms, organizations that spread provocative content, exploit this by copying high-engagement content and posting it as their own, which helps them reach a wide audience.

The Brutal Slave Trade Within the US Has Been Largely Whitewashed Out of History

October 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Detail from the sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas on the the grounds of the National Memorial to Peace & Justice. ((© Pierre Tristam)

Slavery still conjures images of Southern farms and plantations. But the institution was grounded in the sales of nearly 2 million human beings in the domestic slave trade, the profits from which nurtured the economy of the entire country.

“Don’t Texas My Florida!” Protesters Mobilize for Women and LGBT Rights Across U.S.

October 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Reproductive rights advocates gather in front of Florida’s historic Old Capitol building to protest a Texas-style abortion ban that was filed last month in Florida. Oct. 2, 2021. Credit: Danielle J. Brown

The marches and rallies were scheduled in cities and communities across Florida and states elsewhere on Saturday, part of a “Day of Action” nationwide as tensions rise over the threat to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

Supreme Court’s Docket: Guns, Abortion, Religion

October 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The biggest case this year is a challenge to abortion rights. Several states are asking the justices to reconsider Roe v. Wade – the landmark 1973 ruling that established the constitutional right for a woman to terminate a pregnancy, regardless of the moral beliefs of other citizens.

Desmond Meade, Leader in Restoring Felons’ Voting Rights, Wins $650,000 MacArthur Fellowship

October 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Desmond Meade of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, which led the fight to restore voting rights for felons who have served their sentence, after regaining his own right to vote in January 2019. Meade is now helping lead the fight against the new restrictions the Florida Legislature imposed on felons' rights. (Facebook)

Desmond Meade, a former drug dealer who has received international accolades after leading the drive to pass a 2018 Florida constitutional amendment to restore voting rights for felons, has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the program announced on Tuesday. Meade is one of this year’s 25 fellows selected for “originality, insight and potential,” according to the program’s website. They receive $625,000 grants, paid out over five years.

State School Board Will Meet to Police 11 School Districts’ Compliance with Ban on Mask Mandate

September 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Masking the masks: Brevard County public school students earlier this month. (Facebook)

The board will meet Oct. 7 and focus on the school districts in Alachua, Brevard, Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Indian River, Leon, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach and Sarasota counties, according to a notice published Wednesday in the Florida Administrative Register.

The Supreme Court’s Immense Power May Be Its Achilles’ Heel

September 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The Icarus supreme court. ( Ian Hutchinson on Unsplash)

That immense power of the Supreme Court has arguably made the court a leading player in enacting policy in the U.S. It may also cause the loss of the court’s legitimacy, which can be defined as popular acceptance of a government, political regime or system of governance.

Makenna’s Story: 9-Year-Old Palm Coast Student’s Covid Hospitalization Upends Glib Assumptions

September 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

One of the cards at Makenna's bedside at Wolfsons Children's Hospital. (Simon family)

Makenna’s story illustrates the pernicious tenacity of a disease that upends, separates and traumatizes families, cuts off income, creates unspeakable loneliness even for those not hospitalized, and leaves its casualties fuming at a community’s refusal to embrace–beyond thoughts and prayers–the small, effortless measures that could prevent much of the harm to most.

Florida Department of Health Argues for Suppressing Covid Data in Public Records Lawsuit

September 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The Florida Department of Health is trying to scuttle a public-records lawsuit seeking information about Covid-19, arguing that requested reports don’t exist and that the underlying data is confidential.

47 Million Americans Think Biden Is ‘Illegitimate.’ 21 Support Violence to ‘Restore’ Trump

September 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

A screen shot from an FBI video of the insurrection.

The survey found that many of these 21 million people with insurrectionist sentiments have the capacity for violent mobilization. At least 7 million of them already own a gun, and at least 3 million have served in the U.S. military and so have lethal skills. Of those 21 million, 6 million said they supported right-wing militias and extremist groups, and 1 million said they are themselves or personally know a member of such a group, including the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.

Stop Yelling. Have a Point: Advice for School Board Meeting Disrupters from Someone Who’s Been There.

September 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Randy Bertrand addressing the Flagler County School Board at a meeting last year.

In the wake of two turbulent school board meetings, Randall Bertrand was left wondering what all the sound and fury was about since many speakers’ loud and disruptive message was already made moot by school board votes or state policy.

Gov. DeSantis Reshaped Florida’s Appeals Courts. It Seems to Be Working Out for Him

September 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Florida Supreme Court building in Tallahassee. (Michael Moline)

The question is whether the conservative monoculture DeSantis and his predecessors have built within the judicial branch is willing to check excesses committed by the executive and legislative branches, which the Republican Party has dominated for decades. The question is being answered in the negative.

End the Offensive Discrimination Against Workers: Yes to Commercial Vehicles in Palm Coast Driveways

September 17, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 131 Comments

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Palm Coast’s prohibition against small, van-size commercial vehicles in residential driveways is outdated and discriminatory, especially targeting blue-collar workers while refusing to recognize the vastly changing geography of work. This isn’t a majority vote issue. It’s a workers’ rights issue.

Texas Unleashes Bounty Hunters on Women

September 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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A Texas law deputizes ordinary citizens to hunt down and sue anyone who helps a woman defy the ban (e.g. clinic staff, taxi drivers, someone who provided money for the procedure) with a minimum payoff of $10,000 if they’re successful.

Texas Rebirths Jim Crow Tactics in Vigilantism-Enabling Abortion Law

September 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A marker in Kendleton, Texas, commemorates the Terry v. Adams case, in which the Supreme Court struck down a Texas Jim Crow law that disenfranchised Black voters. (Djmaschek/Wikipedia)

The new Texas law that bans most abortions uses a method employed by Texas and other states to enforce racist Jim Crow laws in the 19th and 20th centuries that aimed to disenfranchise African Americans.

L’Darius Smith Is Sentenced to a Year in Jail Over Baseball Bat Incident, Ending Latest But Not Last Court Odyssey

September 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

In the words of Mario Balotelli: "Why always me?" L'Darius Smith with his attorney, Assistant Public Defender Regina Nunnally. (© FlaglerLive)

The long, convoluted, at times controversial case of L’Darius Smith ended Friday with his sentencing to a year in jail for aggravated assault, burglary, theft, battery and the improper exhibition of a weapon in a pair of incidents that go back to early 2020 in Palm Coast, that touched on claims of racial prejudice and involved a stand your ground hearing that Smith lost.

Simplistic and Damaging: How Schools Teach 9/11

September 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

An inscription on a wall at the 9/11 Memorial Museum at the site of the World Trade Center towers. Behind the wall is a repository of some 8,000 unidentified human remains. Virgil's quote, however, was taken out of context, and misapplied to the memory of the 9/11 victims. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

Narratives reduced to a focus on heroism and simplistic interpretations of good and evil do not help students reflect on the many controversial decisions made by the U.S. and their allies after 9/11, such as using embellished evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003. And they potentially reinforce political rhetoric that paints Muslims as potential terrorists and ignore the xenophobic attacks against Muslim Americans after the 9/11 attacks.

Florida Is Among World Leaders in Mass Incarceration

September 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Florida prisons are, of course, hiring. A notice on the Department of Corrections' Facebook page.

Florida and a dozen other states imprison people at the highest rates in the world, without demonstrating that incarceration reduces crime, says the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-partisan research and policy advocacy organization.

9/11: The Road Not Taken

September 11, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 3 Comments

In Washington Square Park in Manhattan, an American flag turned emotional message board in the days after the 9/11 attacks. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

The military and political misuses of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were bound to have bewildering consequences for the nation’s budget and its sense of itself as a free and peaceful society, absent the prevailing of wise, more prudent choices. Those choices did not prevail.

Black Lives Matter: Where We Stand

September 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Black Lives Matter has been called the largest civil movement in U.S. history. Lately, the movement and its leading organizations have become more traditional and hierarchical in structure. Two scholars of worldwide African communities and cultures – Kwasi Konadu and Bright Gyamfi – discuss BLM as both a movement and an organization.

Challenge to DeSantis’s Ban on Mask Mandates In Doubt Again as Appeals Court Reinstates Stay on Judge’s Decision

September 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee. (Wikimedia Commons)

Pointing to “serious doubts” about the lawsuit, an appeals court Friday put on hold a circuit judge’s ruling that said Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his constitutional authority in a July 30 executive order aimed at preventing school mask mandates.

Federal Judge Issues Injunction Against Florida’s Protest Law, Calling It ‘Vague and Overbroad’

September 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

It became the largest civil rights movement in the country. (© FlaglerLive)

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker on Thursday blocked a controversial state law that enhances penalties and creates new crimes in protests that turn violent. Walker, who has frequently clashed with the DeSantis administration and the GOP-controlled Legislature, granted the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction blocking DeSantis and three sheriffs from enforcing the law.

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