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Florida Lawmakers Want Their Home Addresses and Phone Numbers Kept Secret

March 31, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

“We’ve had some situations where people have gotten that public information and have used that to harass and picket and threaten us at our homes,” Kelli Stargel, the Lakeland Republican and bill sponsor, says. (NSF)

The House and Senate are advancing proposals that would create a public-records exemption for information about lawmakers, including their home addresses and phone numbers, but opponents question how the measures would interact with a requirement that lawmakers live in their districts.

Palm Coast Student Elliott Bertrand Accuses Senate Panel of ‘Prejudice’ Before 6-4 Vote on Transgender Sports Ban

March 31, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Elliott Bertrand of Palm Coast, a student at Flagler Palm Coast High School, addressing the Senate Health Policy Committee this morning in Tallahassee. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

The Florida Senate Health Policy Committee today approved a bill that would scrap existing policy and ban transgender women from participating in competitive high school and college sports absent testosterone testing that might clear them to play. Elliott Bertrand, a student at Flagler Palm Coast High School, was among the many opponents of the bill who addressed the panel in Tallahassee.

Dog Found Agonizing in a Ditch, Possibly Victimized as Bait Dog, Has Died; Answers Sought and Reward Offered

March 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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Grace, a 7 or 8-year-old pit bull, was discovered Sunday in a ditch in Espanola in agony and bearing signs of being a bait dog. By Monday morning she had died, but galvanized efforts to find her abusers. A fundraiser before she died raised $8,000 for her care.

Calling Mullins ‘Pied Piper of Hate, Deception and Fraud,’ School Board’s Conklin Rips His Latest Attack on LGBTQ and GOP

March 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Joe Mullins speaking to a group he calls the 'adorable deplorables,' in a still from the video he'd posted, then taken down, at his Facebook page.

Joe Mullins combined attacks on transgender people and local Republicans in an extended screed filled with falsehoods and mischaracterizations as he spoke to a local far-right Republican group, prompting the School Board’s Colleen Conklin to issue a severe condemnation and called him a “narcissistic beast.”

Joe Mullins Falsehoods, Mischaracterizations, Misleading and Baseless Statements: A Fact-Check

March 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Joe Mullins.(© FlaglerLive)

Joe Mullins’s problem with facts is not new, pre-dating his election. We fact-checked his latest statements from that March 25 appearance point by point as he discussed Flagler schools’ transgender students, local Republicans allegiances, the massage parlor murders, immigration, why people move to Flagler, guns and other matters.

Florida House Passes Controversial Bill Criminalizing Or Increasing Penalties for Some Acts at Protests

March 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The sweeping bill would, among other things, create a new crime of “mob intimidation” and stiffen penalties for injuring police officers during protests that become violent. Also, it would establish an “affirmative defense” for defendants in civil lawsuits involving deaths, injuries or property damage if the injuries or damages were sustained while plaintiffs were participating “in furtherance of a riot.”

The Worst Attack on Voting Rights Since Jim Crow

March 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Expanded voting by mail, no-excuse absentee voting, curbside voting, and early voting made the ballot box more accessible. But now, Republican lawmakers in 43 states are introducing hundreds of restrictive “voting rights” bills to roll back these measures.

‘Covid Passports’? Not in Florida, Governor Declares, Threatening Sanctions Against Companies That Try It

March 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Britain is among the nations considering a so-called 'Covid passport,' and is exploring the possibility of denying entry into the country by those who have not been vaccinated.

DeSantis this week suggested he may go after companies if they require customers to show proof that they are vaccinated, saying “it’s more than just a private decision.” The governor was referring to what have been called Covid-19 passports, a phenomenon gathering momentum abroad.

Gov. DeSantis Could Use a Civics Lesson on the Florida Constitution

March 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

Ron DeSantis during a visit to Flagler before he was governor. (© FlaglerLive)

Even as they push a $106 million proposal to improve civics education, our legislators and our governor persist in violating the Constitution by supporting legislation authorizing programs to send nearly $1 billion to private, religious schools in our state.

The Fabricated Fear of Transgender Athletes in High School Sports

March 18, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Randall Bertrand, the author, at a demonstration for transgender rights before a school board meeting last year. (© FlaglerLive)

Randall Bertrand, who led last year’s campaign to add “gender identity” to the Flagler school board’s protections against discrimination, lays out a case against the Legislature’s baseless fear-mongering over transgender participation in high school sports.

Florida GOP Rollback of Voting Rights Triggers Uproar Among County Election Supervisors

March 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

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GOP legislative leaders are pushing changes to the state’s election process that Democrats are branding as “voter suppression,” county election officials “vehemently” oppose and experts say will “disproportionately” harm Black and Hispanic voters.

In Spite: DeSantis Denies Pardon for World-Acclaimed Voting Rights Leader Desmond Mead

March 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Desmond Meade. (NSF)

Meade said he is a victim of political infighting between DeSantis and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democrat who, as a member of the state Board of Executive Clemency, put forward Meade’s application for a pardon in September and again on Wednesday.

Guantanamo, America’s Enduring Shame

March 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Guantanamo street theater in Washington, D.C. (Mike Benedetti/Flickr)

Guantánamo is a crime against humanity and there will never be any justification to rationalize why hundreds of people were held indefinitely, without trial, without due process, without international observers and without ever seeing their families and loved ones.

‘This Is Wrong,’ Attorney Says of Matanzas Student’s Arrest Over Rap Song Threat, Citing 1st Amendment

March 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Joseph Washington in court on Monday, via Zoom. (© FlaglerLive)

Matanzas High student Joseph Washington, 18, has yet to be charged almost seven weeks after his arrest on an accusation that he threatened a dean in a rap song posted to SoundCloud. On Monday, his attorney called his whole case “wrong” on First Amendment grounds.

The Golden Rule Is Not Cancel Culture

March 5, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 48 Comments

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The Dr. Seuss estate’s decision to pull six books from reprints has nothing to do with cancel culture. That pair of terms has become its own dogmatic dumbbell anyway. Our misplaced nostalgia for books we were so fond of isn’t more important than the golden rule of looking out for our neighbors, to whom the same nostalgia translates as insult or put-down.

Setting Privacy Rights Aside, Florida Senate Considers Allowing Police Drones Over Crowds of 50 or More

March 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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With some lawmakers expressing concerns about privacy rights, the Florida Senate could be poised to consider allowing law-enforcement agencies to use aerial drones to help with traffic management, collecting crime-scene evidence and eyeing large crowds.

Divided Party Line Vote Pushes Florida House Bill Cracking Down on Violent Protests

March 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Last June's Black Lives Matter protest in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

Critics maintain that the proposals would have a chilling effect on participation in peaceful protests, violate free-speech rights and allow people who plow vehicles into crowded protests to avoid civil penalties if they injure or kill someone.

Life, Breath, and Death: Michael Eric Dyson’s ‘Long Time Coming’ as Elegy and Call to Action

February 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Michael Eric Dyson's "Long Time Coming: Reckoning With Race in America" is published by St. Martin's Press. (© FlaglerLive)

Michael Eric Dyson’s “Long Time Coming” is for those who are just beginning to see, for those who are seeking to reignite the fire, and for those who are coming, as is said in the Black church, from a mighty long way.

At Belle Terre Park, a Confederate Flag, a Swastika and Other Obscenities Elicit Distress But Little Action

February 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

Teens brandished a confederate flag on the grounds of the city's Freeda Zamba pool Sunday afternoon, next to Belle Terre Park, where bigoted and obscene graffiti had been spray-painted. (© FlaglerLive)

Twin 5 year olds and their mother found a swastika and other obscenities spray-painted on play equipment and concrete at Belle Terre Park Sunday, where teens later brandished and paraded a Confederate flag , daring a reporter to photograph it.

3 Months After Boasting of ‘Smoothest’ Election in 50 States, DeSantis Wants New Electoral Restrictions

February 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Three months ago Ron DeSantis was boasting of the “smoothest and most successful election of any state.” (© FlaglerLive)

DeSantis’ proposal would address the use of drop boxes to collect vote-by-mail ballots, prohibit volunteers from collecting many vote-by-mail ballots, require new signature standards on ballots, and prohibit counties from receiving grants from private organizations for “get out the vote” initiatives.

Addiction Is Not a Crime. The Drug War Is.

February 20, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 53 Comments

Every defendant a Josef K. (© FlaglerLive)

To continue with our cruel and sadistic drug war is the daily crime. The only way out is to decriminalize all drugs, treat, repair and, somehow, atone for lawmakers’ and the judicial system’s half-century assault on their own citizens. 

Renewing Assault on Transgender Rights, Florida Rep. Sabatini Will Seek to Criminalize Certain Procedures

February 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini announced he will again try to criminalize gender-altering surgery and medical treatments performed on minors who want it, even when their parents approve.

Republicans in Florida and Elsewhere Respond to Black Lives Matter with Anti-Protest Bills

February 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Last June's Black Lives Matter march in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Republican legislators in Florida and 21 other states are considering tough new penalties for protesters who break laws. As in Florida, some of the bills also would prevent localities from cutting police budgets and give some legal protection to people who injure protesters.

All Undocumented Americans Deserve a Pathway to Citizenship

February 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

A new citizen waving her naturalization document after a ceremony at the Grand Canyon in 2016. (NPS)

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) known as the Dream Act survived years of attack from the Trump administration. It temporarily protects undocumented people, most of whom immigrated to the U.S. as young children, from deportation. families deserved this moment of relief.

After the Muslim Ban

February 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Before we let the horrors of the Trump administration fade away like a fever dream, we have to ask ourselves how we got here. Otherwise, it’s going to become a recurring nightmare, argues Domenica Ghanem.

Federal Investigation Finds Staff Brutality and Sexual Abuse of Inmates at Florida Prison. State Demurs.

February 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Lowell state prison. (Facebook)_

The federal investigation found “varied and disturbing reports” of sexual abuse, including rape, of female inmates by staff members at the state’s largest women’s correctional facility. State officials had documented and been aware of sexual abuse by sergeants, correctional officers and other staff at Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala since at least 2006.

Appeals Court Orders New Bova Murder Trial: Judge ‘Abused’ Discretion By Denying Him Right to Represent Himself

February 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Joseph Bova, flanked by his attorneys--Joshua Mosley, left, and Matt Phillips--as he strenuously argued with Circuit Judge Perkins that he wanted to represent himself. Perkins denied the request. Bova eventually won the argument as an appeals court today ruled that the judge was wrong to deny his right to self-representation. (© FlaglerLive)

The Fifth District Court of Appeal today ordered Joseph Bova re-tried for murder, 17 months after a jury found Bova guilty and a judge sentenced him to life in prison. The court ruled that Judge Terence Perkins was wrong to deny Bova his right to fire his attorneys and represent himself, no matter how much of a mess Bova would have made for himself.

Upholding Requirement, Court Compares Mask Mandate to Smoking Bans in Public Places

January 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The Palm Beach County Commission at a June meeting when it approved a mandatory mask mandate. It did so during a workshop.

A state appeals court Wednesday rejected a challenge to a Palm Beach County requirement that people wear face masks in businesses and other public places to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Controversial Bill Requiring ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Surveys on Florida Campuses Wins Senate Backing

January 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Turlington Plaza, a University of Florida "free speech zone." (Jeff Stevens)

A controversial Senate proposal that would require Florida state colleges and universities to survey students about “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” on campus cleared its first hurdle Tuesday.

Flagler Grand Jury Issues 4 Indictments for Murder, 2 More in Drug Deaths, 2 in Killing of Deon O’Neal Jenkins

January 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Allyson Dawn Bennett, 39, and Javian Neesmith, 21, both of Palm Coast.

The indictments of Allyson Dawn Bennett, 39, and Javian Neesmith, 21, are Flagler County’s second and third for murder stemming from the death of individuals from drug overdoses–a relatively new, rapidly expanding but also increasingly controversial trend in criminal prosecutions that began with the emergence of the fentanyl epidemic.

Sedition Is Not a 1st Amendment Right, and There’s No Comparison With BLM Marches

January 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

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Mob participants claim they were only exercising their First Amendment right to protest, and that Black Lives Matter protests and riots didn’t draw the same scrutiny. Both narratives are factual and moral frauds that hide behind liberal rationales to perpetrate reactionary lies and justify the unconscionable. 

A Tale of Two Mobs

January 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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The second mob includes the eight Republican senators and 139 House Republicans who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election, as well as the 17 Republican attorneys general who supported a bogus lawsuit to throw out the election.

Florida Bill Proposes Abortion Ban After 5 Months

January 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Anti-abortion proponents are eager to test Roe v. Wade and other precedents in light of the the more conservative new make-up of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Trump’s Fascism and Republican Responsibility

January 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 109 Comments

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By the time Trump was spitting sedition and inciting violence Wednesday he’d had five years of encouragement from the same Republican charlatans who would later stand on the floors of the Senate and the House to declare themselves shocked, shocked that the rioters they’d courted had desecrated and bloodied their little sanctum. 

On WNZF, Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins Calls for Beheading Liberals

January 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 114 Comments

Joe Mullins in a WNZF promotion of his infomercial on the radio station.

A few minutes into his latest weekly infomercial on WNZF radio Saturday morning, Joe Mullins, the Flagler County commissioner, called for the beheading of liberals while decrying responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ending Trump’s Lies About Immigrants

December 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

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“Relative to undocumented immigrants, U.S.-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes,” a study finds.

The Trump Administration’s Final Push to Make It Easier for Religious Employers to Discriminate

December 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Last-minute policies on religious freedom clear the way for employers to hire on the basis of faith. Some of the changes won’t be easy for Biden to undo.

Local Governments Seek Re-Hearing in Federal Case That Allowed ‘Conversion Therapy’ Targeting LGBTQ Youths

December 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

In May 2017 then-Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy signed into law legislation protecting LGBTQ youth in the state from what his office called "the destructive and discredited practice of conversion therapy. The so-called treatment, which seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, has been discredited by nearly every credible medical and psychiatric group in the country and oftentimes includes destructive practices that are harmful to children, such as electric shock therapy. The legislation is House Bill 6695, An Act Concerning the Protection of Youth from Conversion Therapy."

Local Florida ordinances that a federal court found unconstitutional had barred therapists from providing treatment or counseling that is designed to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity. Critics of such therapy say it harms minors who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Fired Analyst Rebekah Jones Sues FDLE Over Search of Her Home

December 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Rebekah Jones as FDLE agents led her outside her home on Dec. 7, in a still from a body cam video.

Attorneys for fired Florida Department of Health analyst Rebekah Jones, who has drawn national attention for her battles with the DeSantis administration, argued in the lawsuit that a search warrant to enter her home Dec. 7 “was obtained in bad faith and with no legitimate object or purpose.”

Court’s Conservatives Are Right: Pandemic Limits on Houses of Worship Are Unconstitutional

December 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Let them worship. (© FlaglerLive)

The Supreme Court’s ruling overturning its own recent precedent to forbid attendance limits at houses of worship because of Covid was not an ideological decision so much as a victory for the First Amendment that liberals should be thankful for.

Florida Lawmakers Again Will Consider Requiring Moment of Silence in Schools

December 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

It's everywhere. (Margarida)

An effort to require public-school students to engage in a moment of silence at the start of each school day is back before the state Legislature. Sen. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, refiled legislation (SB 282) on Thursday that would require principals to direct first-period teachers to set aside one to two minutes for “quiet reflection.”

Trevor Tucker, in Remarkable Shift, Provides 3-2 Majority to Add ‘Gender Identity’ to Long-Sought School Protections

December 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Flagler County School Board Chairman Trevor Tucker. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board this evening reversed its April vote and added “gender identity” to its anti-discrimination policy, ending a year-long and at times controversial and embittered debate over the identity and rights of LGBTQ students.

Why Was Flagler’s County Administrator Allowed to Illegally Start a Public Meeting With a Christian Prayer?

December 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 82 Comments

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A county commissioner read out a long and explicitly Christian prayer prepared by County Administrator Jerry Cameron at Monday’s commission meeting, breaking decades of precedent without prior legal review, public discussion or commissioners’ prior knowledge.

Pistols, a Hearse and Trucks Playing Chicken: Why Some Voters Felt Harassed and Intimidated at the Polls

December 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Across the country, people complained about threats, aggressive electioneering and racist language both at early voting locations and on Election Day. We’ve corroborated some of those accounts.

Enough with ‘Patently False and Fabricated Conspiracy Theories’ on 2020 Vote, a GOP Elections Supervisor Says

December 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Brian Corley, a Republican, has been Pasco County's elections supervisor since 2007. (Pasco Supervisor's Office via YouTube)

Pasco County Elections Supervisor Brian Corley, a Republican, condemns continuing attacks on the integrity of the presidential election– the most secure, transparent election in history, he says, now undermined by “destructive rhetoric” that is “prioritizing politics at the expense of our country’s founding principles.”

Covid Justice: Florida Court Rules Zoom Hearings Don’t Violate Defendants’ Constitutional Rights

December 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Flagler County Circuit Judge Terence Perkins holding a set of hearings by zoom recently: he presided from his courtroom, defendants were connected by video from the jail, lawyers and others by Zoom. (© FlaglerLive)

In a legal test of remote court proceedings during the Covid-19 pandemic, an appeals court Wednesday rejected arguments that using Zoom technology in a probation-violation hearing would violate a defendant’s constitutional rights.

The Strange Case of Cornelius Baker’s Dangling Fate on Death Row, 13 Years After a Bunnell Murder

November 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Cornelius Baker arriving for his last hearing in Flagler County Circuit Court in February. (© FlaglerLive)

Conflicting Supreme Court cases gave convicted murdered Cornelius Baker hope that he could get a new sentencing trial and escape the death penalty, as have two previous Flagler death row inmates. But the conflicting cases, again reflecting the contradictions of Florida’s capital punishment laws, now leave his fate in an absurd twilight zone.

Oral Arguments on Alachua’s Mask Mandate Evoke Hijabs, Nazis, KKK, Crime and, Finally, Public Health

November 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The appeal was argued on Zoom before, Judges (© FlaglerLive)

Oral arguments about Alachua County’s mask mandate before a three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeal Monday was a spectacle of audacious leaps and strange analogies that nevertheless illustrated the sharp and far from resolved divide between mask proponents and anti-maskers, including on the judicial bench.

Court’s Trump Appointees Strike Down Florida Bans on Bigoted ‘Conversion Therapy’ Aimed at LGBTQ Children

November 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Barbara Lagoa was one of the two judges who ruled against a ban on conversion therapy. She was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court by Gov. Ron DeSantis in January 2019, then nominated to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by President Trump. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

Two South Florida ordinances barred therapists from providing treatment or counseling that is designed to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity. Critics of such therapy say it harms minors who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The federal court ruled against the ban on First Amendment grounds.

11th Circuit Upholds Firing of Sandy Hook Massacre Denier and Florida Atlantic University Professor

November 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

James Tracy denied it. (Dave Barger)

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday rejected James Tracy’s First Amendment arguments that he was fired in retaliation for views posted on a blog. The panel upheld a jury’s decision on the First Amendment issue and a district judge’s rulings against Tracy on other issues.

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