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Rights & Liberties

Florida’s ‘Dreamers’ Hail Supreme Court Decision Barring Immediate Deportation

June 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Simple. (Susan Ruggles)

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 majority found that Trump failed to adequately justify the decision to shut down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, but the door remains open for him to do so.

School Board Chair McDonald Shuts Down Speaker Critical of Her at Public Meeting, Drawing Rebukes

June 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

School Board Chair Janet McDonald at the beginning of Tuesday evening's meeting. It was Cathy Mittelstadt's first meeting as superintendent. Mittelstadt is in the foreground. (© FlaglerLive)

School Board Chair Janet McDonald stopped a student speaker from delivering his comments at Tuesday’s meeting, allowing him later to deliver it only sanitized from mention of her by name. Two board members condemned McDonald’s move and want the public-speaking rules revised.

The Unedited Statement School Board Chair McDonald Censored at a Public Meeting

June 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

A small demonstration in support of LGBTQ rights preceded Tuesday evening's school board meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

The original text of Jack Petocz’s statement is presented here unedited. School Board Chair Janet McDonald shut Petocz down the moment he mentioned her name in the context of a statement critical of her offensive tweeting activity.

Landmark Ruling Spurs Calls for LGBTQ Protections in Florida, Where No Law Bans Discrimination

June 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Charlene Cothran, right, a pastor in Flagler, successfuylly lobbied the Flagler County School Board to keep the words v"gender identity" out of an anti-discrimination policy earlier this year. Cothran is seen above during demonstrations for and against protections for LGBTQ students Nathaniel Wilcox, a member of Cothran’s board

Florida is one of more than two dozen states that do not have laws banning discrimination based on gender, and Republican legislative leaders during the past several years have thwarted efforts to pass such measures.

Stunning Victory for Transgender and Gay Rights as Supreme Court Makes Protections Explicit

June 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Randall Bertrand, who has a transgender son, has led the fight for LGBTQ rights in Flagler County schools since last year. He was among the marchers in an LGBTQ demonstration last Friday in Flagler Beach. (Randall Bertrand)

The decision will have far-reaching consequences regarding LGBTQ rights beyond employment, as it now explicitly lays out a prohibition against discrimination that cannot apply in employment situations without also applying in housing, education, the military and elsewhere.

In Georgia, Voter-Suppression Becomes Systematic

June 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Endless lines in Georgia Tuesday. (Facebook)

What Georgia did Tuesday was criminal, a racist crime against our democracy, and it’s time to criminalize voter suppression once and for all, argues Thom Hartman.

Florida’s Police Union Wants Cops’ Identity Kept Secret Under Victims’ Rights Law

June 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A woman taking the "don't shoot" stand in solidarity with marchers protesting police brutality in Flagler Beach last week. (© FlaglerLive)

Keeping secret the identity of a police officer who shot a black crime suspect might seem anathema during a national time of reckoning about police brutality and racial disparity. But that’s what a Florida police union is seeking.

DeSantis Seeks Fast-Track Appeal to Stop Hundreds of Thousands of Felons from Voting

June 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

In Flagler County, Elections Supervisor Kaiti Lenhart says voter registration is continuing apace without any specific issues related to felons who may now register. If any irregularities arise, the state has 21 days to let a registrant know. Otherwise, that person may vote. (© FlaglerLive)

Lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis have made a rare move of asking a full appellate court to consider a challenge to a voting-rights ruling that would pave the way for hundreds of thousands of felons to cast ballots in the November elections.

A Confederate Flag Is Spray-Painted on a Gym Wall At Matanzas High School

June 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

The graffiti on the south side of a Matanzas High School gym wall. (FCSO)

The Confederate flag graffiti, left at Matanzas High School over the weekend, stands in aberration to the more civil and conciliatory atmosphere of the last few days in the county.

School Board Chairman Janet McDonald’s Twitter Feed: Misinformation and Derision Abound, Empathy Does Not

June 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 54 Comments

School Board Chair Janet McDonald says she had asked for an invocation to be placed on the agenda prior to the August meeting. School Board Attorney Kristy Gavin and Superintendent Jim Tager said she had not asked them. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County School Board Chairman Janet McDonald’s twitter feed is a seethe of conspiracy theories, contempt for government, the press, “leftists,” conventional medicine, and plenty of derision and contempt for protest movements.

Tear-Gassing Protesters During An Infectious Outbreak ‘A Recipe For Disaster’

June 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

A protester in Seattle on May 30. (Hongao Xu)

There are strong calls for police to stop using these chemical irritants because they can damage the body in ways that can spread the coronavirus and increase the severity of Covid-19.

Throngs Impassion Flagler Beach March Against Racism as Teach-In Forms Around Bullhorn

June 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The second march of the day, in Flagler Beach, drew upwards of 300 people and featured a series of speakers at Veterans Park, among them Henry. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach’s late afternoon march Wednesday to protest the murder of George Floyd at police’s hands drew upwards of 300 people and briefly turned into a teach-in at Veterans Park.

In Palm Coast, More Fervor than Fury, More Solidarity than Rage in March for George Floyd

June 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 72 Comments

The march in Palm Coast drew upwards of 200 people. Another was held in Flagler Beach later in the day. (© FlaglerLive)

The first of two marches in Flagler County against racism and the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police drew upwards of 200 people in Palm Coast and unfolded peacefully through the heart of town.

Yes, the Looting Must Stop

June 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

President Reagan signing the Fiscal Year 1989 Appropriations Bills at his desk in the Oval Office in October 1988. (White House)

Looting is the word of the day, on the lips of every newscaster, the president, and elected officials across the country. And, indeed, looting is a major problem in America. But how.

Protests Rage and Reactions Abound Over Killing of George Floyd, But DeSantis Maintains Silence

June 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Protesters in Tallahassee, where the driver of a pickup truck plowed through a street packed with demonstrators, just blocks from the state Capitol building. (NSF)

In Miami, squad cars were damaged and police fired tear gas at a crowd of protesters. In Tallahassee, the driver of a pickup truck plowed through a street packed with demonstrators, just blocks from the state Capitol building.

Battling a Pandemic of Bigotry

May 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

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Donald Trump fanned the flames of anti-Asian hostility by repeatedly calling Covid-19 the “Chinese virus” while the National Republican Senatorial Committee advised candidates to “attack China” as a mainstay of their campaign messaging.

A Perfectly Legal Lynching in Georgia?

May 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Ahmaud Arbery, from a Facebook tribute page.

Killings of black men by whites are 8.5 times more likely to be ruled “justified.” That’s the reality behind a South Georgia prosecutor who’d said there was insufficient evidence to arrest two white men involved in the fatal shooting of black runner Ahmaud Arbery.

County Elections Supervisors Describe Struggles With Felons’ Voting Law and Lack of Reliable Data

April 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Waiting for voters: equipment at the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections' office. (© FlaglerLive)

The state lacks a single database where felons, lawyers or elections officials can determine whether people have outstanding court-ordered financial obligations. Florida’s new but restrictive felon-voting law is the subject of a nationally watched trial this week.

How Many Deaths Can We Live With?

April 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

There was no hesitation in sending them to their death so others could live: the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, in Normandy. (© FlaglerLive)

The coronavirus emergency is raising ethical questions as communities reopen: how many deaths are we willing to live with, and whose deaths? The questions are at the heart of the debate on reopening, but are not being confronted honestly.

In Flagler Beach, a Few Dozen Demonstrators Rally for Trump, Leaving Reopening ‘Amerika’ To an Afterthought

April 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 55 Comments

Some 35 to 40 people stretched along State Road A1A in Flagler Beach this morning in what had been dubbed as a reopen-the-economy rally, but proved to be mostly a campaign rally for President Trump.

Flagler School Board Adopts Anti-Discrimination Policy Without Specified Protections for Transgender Students

April 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Last February's demonstration outside the Government Services Building, before a school board meeting, which drew proponents and oppnents of the words "gender identity," proposed for a policy the board adopted on Tuesday--without the two words. (© FlaglerLive)

In contrast with months of raucous public debate on the issue, the Flagler school board in a virtual meeting on Tuesday adopted a policy without two words–gender identity–that had triggered intense controversy.

Lawsuit Challenging Florida’s “Poll Tax” on Felon Voting Rights Expanded to Hundreds of Thousands

April 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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)

U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle issued an order last week after saying he intended to grant class certification to plaintiffs, who allege that the 2019 law amounts to an unconstitutional “poll tax.”

Flagler Elections Supervisor Kaiti Lenhart Helping to Lead Push for Expansion of Mail Ballots and Early Voting

April 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Flagler County Elections Supervisor Kaiti Lenhart. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Elections Supervisor Keiti Lenhart is among the Florida supervisors who have asked Gov. Ron DeSantis for emergency measures they say will help them cope with an anticipated “significant statewide shortage” of poll workers later this year because of the coronavirus.

HIPAA Heist: Lethal Privacy In the Age of Coronavirus

April 2, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 14 Comments

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Misapplications and misinterpretations of the federal medical privacy law known as HIPAA are conspiring to kill more of us than otherwise would die from the coronavirus. And officials are taking advantage of the law to cloak their failures.

When DeSantis Shut Reporter Out of Coronavirus Briefing, He Shut Out All Floridians

March 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis at Saturday's briefing on the coronavirus. (Via Florida Channel)

Gov. Ron DeSantis denying Mary Ellen Klas, a Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times reporter in Tallahassee, access to his coronavirus press conference on Saturday was vindictive, petty — and illegal. It denied access to the Floridians who look to these media outlets for vital information.

Flagler Cases Up to 4; Woman Treated for Covid-19 at Advent Is Released, But Her Son, an FPC Student, Tests Positive

March 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Louise McCourty, a Flagler Palm Coast High School employee, distributing meals today at the school to families with children 18 and younger. (Flagler Schools).

Tuesday was proving to be a day of mixed signals, with resilience and fortitude competing with challenges and more dispiriting numbers as various segments of society were rapidly adapting to life under different degrees of restrictions and still often unclear expectations.

Flagler Beach and Flagler County Will Close 18 Miles of Beaches Monday Morning As Florida Infections Soar

March 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 57 Comments

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Flagler Beach and Flagler County are closing their beaches to the public starting at 6 a.m. Monday, joining a growing list of coastal communities and counties, in Florida and elsewhere, doing likewise in an increasingly strict response to the coronavirus.

Close the Damn Beach Already

March 19, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 74 Comments

Visas to the virus: Flagler Beach this week. (© FlaglerLive)

By keeping the beaches open, Flagler and Flagler Beach officials are wanting it both ways. They’re sending contradictory messages and enabling irresponsibility. They’re issuing visas to the virus.

Flagler Circuit’s Chief Judge Issues Order With Potentially Extraordinary Measures as Florida Covid-19 Cases Double in 2 Days to 319

March 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Flagler County courthouse will be seeing a different sort of docket in the weeks ahead. (© FlaglerLive)

The court system’s new restrictions reveal the potential for extraordinary, court-ordered measures in answer to the coronavirus emergency, pointing to the sort of unprecedented role the courts and law enforcement may be taking on in the weeks and months ahead.

Why Flagler’s Covid-19 Cases May Not Be What They Are: Infected Non-County Residents Are Not Reported Locally

March 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

The Florida Department of Health has a new web page tracking coronavirus cases across Florida, but the numbers are less transparent than they seem.

Flagler County may well have one, two or three confirmed cases of coronavirus. If those cases were confirmed in non-Flagler County residents who happened to be in Flagler County, you will not know about them locally, according to Florida Department of Health rules.

In Stunning Reversal, Florida Supreme Court Rules Juvenile Prison Sentences May Exceed 20 Years

March 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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The 4-1 decision stunned public defenders, who expressed concern not only about its implications for juvenile sentencing but also about a reshaped court emboldened to revisit issues the legal community had considered settled.

Volusia/Flagler Chapter Marks ACLU’s Centennial With “Future Voters Essay Contest” and $500 Prize

March 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Lin-Manuel Miranda, his father Luis Miranda, and John James have a message on the ACLU's 100th birthday. (ACLU)

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ‘s Volusia/Flagler chapter is celebrating the ACLU’s 100th birthday with an essay contest open to all students, with a $500 prize and publication of the winning essay in FlaglerLive.

Florida House Speeding Toward Proposal to Allow Stadium-Wide Prayers at High School Games

March 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Amid a long-running legal battle, the Florida House on Friday moved forward with a proposal that could allow schools to offer prayers over public-address systems before events such as high-school championship football games.

DeSantis Favors Senate Bill That Would Require All Public and Many Private Employers to E-Verify

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

E-Verify systems have their opponents. (longislandwins)

All public employers including school districts, state agencies and public universities and private employers with at least 50 employees would have to use the federal system, or one that the state Department of Economic Opportunity deems is “substantially equivalent” to E-Verify.

School Board Superintendent Interviews: Cathy Mittelstadt

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Cathy Mittelstadt at the end of her interview. (© FlaglerLive)

Cathy Mittelstadt, an assistant superintendent for operations in St. Johns County for the past three years, spent the majority of her professional years, almost all of them in leadership positions, in Florida’s top-ranked school district.

Misplaced Inquisitions: Mayor Holland, Coastal Cloud and the Palm Coast Observer

March 4, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 32 Comments

Mayor Milissa Holland anchored a 90-minute segment at Monday's Palm Coast City Council meeting, devoted entirely to refuting allegations about the city's relationship with Coastal Cloud, and the mayor's role. The mayor is a company employee. (© FlaglerLive)

Mayor Milissa Holland and Coastal Cloud Co-owner Tim Hale repeatedly–and unfairly–invoked Palm Coast Observer Editor Brian McMillan’s name in poor light during a 90-minute city council segment devoted entirely to refuting critical allegations about the city’s contract with the company.

Full House and Senate Will Vote on Requiring ‘Moment of Silence’ in Schools

March 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A line from a Walt Whitman poem at the Dupont Circle Metro station in Washington. (M.V. Jantzen)

The Senate Rules Committee on Monday signed off on a bill (SB 946) that would direct principals and teachers to give students up to two minutes each day to reflect on anything they want.

Stop Cloaking Bigotry in Veils of ‘Religious Freedom’

March 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A Supreme Court case could open the door to even more legal discrimination in the name of religious freedom. The intolerant should rethink their claim to piety and morals, which contradict their ends.

Flagler Beach’s Oak Place Residents Want To Know Why the U.S. Post Office Won’t Deliver To Them

February 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

One of the post boxes the Postal Service won;tr deliver to on Oak Place in Flagler Beach, a street no different than many others in the city, the Hammock or unincorporated Flagler where delivery is routine.

The U.S. Postal Service refuses to deliver mail to houses along Oak Place in Flagler Beach even though FedEx, UPS and other delivery services do so, and the street, though dirt, is no different than innumerable such streets in the county.

Attorneys Urge Florida Supreme Court to Rethink Decision Making Unanimous Verdicts Unnecessary

February 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The makeshift bell that opponents of the death penalty ring during vigils at every execution in Starke, the state prison where inmates are executed. (© FlaglerLive)

Pointing to “evolving standards of decency,” attorneys for a Death Row inmate have asked the Florida Supreme Court to reconsider a major ruling that said unanimous jury recommendations are not necessary before death sentences can be imposed.

Lessons from the Border

February 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Central American migrants in southern Mexico. (Peter Haden)

Even if people know a little about the border with Mexico, many Americans simply have no idea about the U.S. policies that have created the displacement crisis, including American support for a criminal Honduran president.

‘This Will Not Stand’: Flagler Commission Prayer Draws Hint of Lawsuit as County Attorney Adamantly Defends Practice

February 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

Mike Cocchiola addressing the Flagler County Commission Monday on the new prayer the chairman of the commission speaks at the beginning of meetings.

As Mike Cocchiola, a member of the local ACLU chapter, suggested legal action may follow, County Attorney Al Hadeed “absolutely” defended the Flagler County Commission chairman opening sessions with a prayer. Hadeed overstated the actual legality of the practice, which courts are still contending.

Rebuking DeSantis, Federal Appeals Court Rules Florida Can’t Bar Felons From Voting Over Unpaid Fees

February 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Desmond Meade --- a felon who garnered international acclaim for his advocacy for the constitutional amendment --- warned that the appeals-court ruling and Hinkle’s preliminary injunction applied only to the 17 plaintiffs in the case. (Desmond Meade/Facebook)

The Florida law enacting Amendment 4 “unconstitutionally punishes a class of felons based only on their wealth,” the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a unanimous decision. But it applies only to 17 felons named in the suit for now.

Hearts and Rainbows v. Satan and Lies as LGBTQ Advocates and Opponents Hold Neighboring Demonstrations

February 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Some of this evening's demonstrators for LGBTQ rights and protections in schools, from left, Jonas Winter, a 10th grader at Matanzas High School, Elliott Bertrand, a 10t grader at Flagler Palm Coast High School, Dmitri Marve, 12th grader at Matanzas, Lylia Demais, 7th grader at Buddy Taylor Middle School, and Takota Kokoun, 23, in college, formerly of Flagler schools. (© FlaglerLive)

The two demonstrations by advocates and opponents of LGBTQ rights outside the Government Services Building in Bunnell preceded the Flagler County School Board meeting Tuesday night, which again was dominated by transgender rights issues.

Flagler Politicians, Take Note: Brevard Taxpayers Just Paid $490,000 to Settle Illegal Christian Prayers at Meetings

February 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Perhaps they should be praying not to get sued.

Just as Flagler County commissioners started proffering prayers at public meetings, as the school board almost did, the Brevard County Commission paid out $490,000 in a settlement for doing so illegally for years.

This Time Death Row Inmate Cornelius Baker Shows Up, Only To Learn His Chance for Re-Sentencing May Vanish

February 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Cornelius Baker, center, was as befuddled as everyone else in the courtroom MOnday when he showed up for the latest in a series of inconclusive hearings about his fate. His attorneys Junior Barrett, right, and Anthony Leonard, sat on either side of him. (© FlaglerLive)

Death row inmate Cornelius Baker’s fate is undetermined as the judge, the defense and the prosecution are all awaiting direction from other courts as to whether to re-try Baker in a sentencing phase or stick to his original death sentence.

The School Board’s Proposed Decorum Rules Are a Pretext to Silence Critical Information

February 6, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 20 Comments

The Flagler County School Board has taken to plastering its rules outside meeting rooms. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board is considering speech restrictions at its meetings that include comment cards before a person can speak and prohibiting references to staff, students or anyone in the district.

Religious Leaders Defend Parochial Schools’ Shunning of LGBTQ Students on Taxpayers’ Dime

February 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

From the late medieval period. (© FlaglerLive)

Religious leaders and some black lawmakers on Tuesday escalated a fiery debate over anti-LGBTQ policies at private schools that receive state-funded scholarships, fueling discussions of religious freedom, discrimination and politics.

Rubio Derides as ‘Publicity Stunt’ Banks’ Funding Halt to Vouchers Underwriting Anti-Gay Schools

February 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Sen. Marco Rubio. (NSF)

An investigation found at least 156 Florida private schools that took state-funded scholarships had anti-gay views or policies, and 83 of the schools refused to admit LGBTQ students or could expel them if their sexual orientations or gender identities were disclosed.

Girl Who Threatened to Kill FPC Teacher in Racist Screed Gets Probation, and Must Write Essay on Hate Speech

February 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The girl was finger--printed immediately after the sentencing in circuit court this afternoon. (© FlaglerLive)

The 17-year-old former Flagler Palm Coast High School girl last December was found guilty of terrorist threats to kill her English teacher through racist-laced electronic messages with another student in December 2018.

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