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Rights & Liberties

Without Fear Or Favor. Or Whining.

August 26, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

Juan Gris' 'Le Journal,' 1916. press freedom

Defending the press against Donald Trump’s “enemy of the people” attacks may have its place, but reporters’ best bet is to shut up and do their job well: it’s the most eloquent response.

Judge Will Decide Whether to Remove Victim’s Rights Proposal From November Ballot

August 24, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Lawyers opposing the measure known as Marsy’s Law say it restricts the constitutional rights of those accused of crimes while misleading voters about its intent.

Calling Florida Prison Officials Ignorant and Bigoted, Judge Orders Accommodations For Transgender Inmate

August 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

A briefing at a Florida prison, where guards will have to learn to accommodate transgender inmates. (Facebook)

A federal judge ordered Florida prisons to continue providing hormone treatments to Reiyn Keohane, who identifies as female since age 8. She started serving a 15-year sentence for attempted murder in 2014.

Supreme Court Clears Release of Parkland Massacre Videos School Board Sought to Block

August 22, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A video still from surveillance footage outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after the Feb. 14 massacre began.

The order sides with a coalition of news organizations and ordered the release of footage from the afternoon of Feb. 14, when 17 people were killed at the school.

Immigrant Youth Shelters: “If You’re a Predator, It’s a Gold Mine”

July 29, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Southwest Key Programs’ Estrella del Norte facility in Tucson

An investigation of police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children provides a snapshot of what has largely been kept from the public as well as members of Congress.

In Restoration of Florida Felons’ Voting Rights, Lawyers Make Novel 1st Amendment Argument

July 26, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Lawyers for the plaintiffs maintain that Florida’s discretionary process violates the First Amendment, despite a dearth of cases anywhere in the country supporting that argument.

Protest and the Double-Edged Sword of ‘Civility’

July 25, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Uncivil action may be a necessary strategy, just as civil disobedience, bearing witness, and making politicians uncomfortable were critical to the civil rights movement.

Fearing Lawsuit, a Commissioner Questions Streaming Government Meetings

July 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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A deputy clerk in Bunnell and a city commissioners wanted to end streaming government meetings from fear of getting sued until the city attorney saw an overreaction.

Local Police Should Not Collaborate With Immigration and Customs Enforcement

July 18, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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As reports of abuse at ICE emerge and increase, robust sanctuary policies that end the collusion with local law enforcement that ICE relies on gain urgency.

What’s At Stake If Brett Kavanaugh Joins the Supreme Court

July 11, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

abortion restrictions

All Americans say they value personal freedom, especially the right to make our own decisions about our private lives. Expect that to end.

Flagler Government Will Crack Down On Mobile Campaign Billboards And Other Signs

July 11, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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Flagler County commissioners will approve new rules next Monday regulating or banning campaign-sign-blaring vehicles and campaign signs from county properties.

Drug War Blowback: Why Those Central American Immigrants Are Still Coming

July 10, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Between the drug war and the backing of brutal regimes, the U.S. created conditions in Central America that families are desperate to flee — even if they risk being separated.

Abolish ICE

July 8, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is supposed to keep Americans safe. Instead, it’s terrorizing refugees, families, and small children.

Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns

July 1, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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The epidemic of gun violence that kills 96 people a day is focused on mental illness. But a little-known problem is what to do about firearms in homes of aging Americans with dementia.

Zero Tolerance: Here’s What It’s Like to Work at a Shelter for Immigrant Kids

June 30, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

A photo provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows immigrant children inside Casa Padre on June 14.

A window into a system pushed into overdrive, straining to serve traumatized kids amid the uncertainty of America’s immigration system.

A Dagger in the Heart of Unions, Workers and Democracy: Behind the Janus Ruling

June 28, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A National Nurses United rally. (Facebook)

Their end game is to overturn a fundamental premise of majority rule, and lock in place permanent Constitutional changes to bar any limits on oligarchical rule.

Being Separated From My Child Nearly Destroyed Me

June 26, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The administration’s policy of separating families is torture, and Trump’s executive order to incarcerate families together doesn’t solve the crisis.

For a 6-Year-Old Snared in the Immigration Maze, Lifeline in a Memorized Phone Number

June 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid. (Facebook)

As the U.S. attempts to reunite migrant families, children will bear the burden of helping to identify who and where their parents are. One 6-year-old girl has an advantage.

Flagler County Passes Precedent-Setting Ordinance Protecting Public Use of Private Beaches, But Its Future Is Uncertain

June 21, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

One of the illustrations used during a presentation on the public's customary use of Flagler's beach-front shows the old Flagler Beach Hotel, which opened in 1926, and the Moody Boulevard beach ramp granting public access to the beach. Click on the image for larger view.

Flagler’s customary-use ordinance forbids the walling off of private sections of beaches, though a new state law allows just such segregation from public use. Flagler expects its ordinance to be challenged.

Floridian Wins 2nd Case at Supreme Court Over Arrest During Public Comment

June 19, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Fane Lozman is asked to leave, then arrested, during the meeting's public comment period.

Justices, in an 8-1 decision, sided with Fane Lozman, who filed a lawsuit against the city contending that the arrest involved retaliation for his outspoken criticism of officials in the Palm Beach County community.

Cruel and Usual Trump

June 17, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 81 Comments

President Trump and Melania Trump signing a 'Be Best' initiative the day after Sen. Senator Jeff Merkley was barred from examining a children's detention center in Brownsville, Texas. (White House)

The Trump-Sessions zero-tolerance policy of separating children from their parents at the border has no precedent except in America’s slavery times.

The Truth About ‘Sanctuary Cities’

June 11, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A rally in defense of sanctuary cities. (Chris Devers)

The term “sanctuary city” typically refers to a jurisdiction that wants to limit the use of local law enforcement resources to carry out federal law enforcement work, in violation of constitutional protections.

Pious Homophobes Win One

June 10, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

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The Supreme Court in its wedding-cake ruling declared gays once again second-class citizens, at least when their sexuality has to compete with someone else’s more stone-throwing version of Christianity.

Bunnell Short-Lists Six Men For City Manager, But May Have Violated Sunshine Law

June 7, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The Bunnell City Commission drew up its shortlist of candidates for city manager outside of an official meeting. From left, John Sowell, John Rogers, Mayor Catherine Robinson, Bill Baxley and Elbert Tucker. (© FlaglerLive)

The Bunnell City Commission short-listed six city manager candidates out of 18 outside of a public meeting, a method courts have found to violate the Sunshine law.

Court Largely Sides With Florida State In Weapons Dispute With Florida Carry

May 29, 2018 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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An appeals court Friday backed Florida State University in much of a legal battle with a gun-rights group about weapons on campus, though the case goes back to circuit court.

To Protect Public Use of Private Beachfronts, Flagler Calls on Memories of
Long-Timers’ Customs

May 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

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To ward off a new state law potentially allowing private property owners to fence off beach sands, the Flagler County Commission is enacting an ordinance to preserve public use and forbid fencing.

Brushing Aside 1st Amendment Claim, Appeals Court Uphold Florida Ban on a Prison Magazine

May 22, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Florida alone among 50 states bans Prison Legal News. Paul Wright, the publisher of the magazine, intends to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Israel’s Mass Shootings

May 20, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

A scene at the Gaza fence east of Gaza City in late April. (Muhammad Sabah, B'Tselem)

You can always depend on Israel periodically to mass-murder bunches of Arabs in proportions as lopsided and unforgiving as our own mass shootings in the U.S., then scapegoat the bloodletting.

Haspel, Spies and the Destruction of Evidence

May 13, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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The CIA official who ordered the destruction of videotapes that had documented the treatment of terror suspects, says he told Gina Haspel what he intended to do.

State Objects to Anonymity of 19 Year Old Woman Seeking to Join NRA Lawsuit

May 7, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Lawyers for Attorney General Pam Bondi asked a federal judge to deny the anonymity request, calling it unjustified, and open court proceedings more important.

Compromise Over School Deputies in Flagler, But Look Beyond False Security of “Hardening”

May 3, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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There’s an effective way to end the stalemate between the Flagler Sheriff and the school board over deputies in schools without breaking the bank or compromising security.

With Sharpton Headlining, Rally Calls For Restoring Felon Rights After Stinging Court Defeat

April 26, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

'By ruling on the eve of this rally, they gave us the impetus to really build a movement,' Al Sharpton said, referring to the federal appeals court's decision--a setback for those seeking to restore felons' voting rights. (NSF)

The long-planned march followed a late-night ruling from a federal appeals court that gave Gov. Scott a victory in a bitterly fought challenge to the state’s voter-restoration system.

With Social Media Surveillance, Flagler School District Is Breaching Community Trust

April 22, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

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With its contract with Social Sentinel, a social media snooping company, the Flagler school district is going into the secretive surveillance business for a much heavier cost than advertised.

A Palm Coast Resident Says “School Shooting” In a Facebook Video That Has Nothing To Do with School Shootings. Cops Show Up.

April 18, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Tony Lagano, 35, of Palm Coast, describes himself as an artist and a musician who won't censor himself. (Facebook)

Tony Lagano, 35, was upset over a family court issue and alluded to a school shooting in a sarcastic Facebook video last week, only to be visited by sheriff’s deputies.

Students Raise Concerns, But Flagler School Board Approves Social Media Surveillance

April 18, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Flagler County Student School Board members Margaret O’Mahoney and Jessica Middleton posed most of the tougher questions about the district's contract with Social Sentinel Tuesday evening, ahead of the board approving its contract with the social media trolling company. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board Tuesday approved a three-year, $55,500 contract with Vermont-based Social Sentinel to troll eight different types of social media accounts.

Flagler School Board Wants To Snoop on Students’ Social Media, And Maybe Yours. Wrong Move.

April 16, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 52 Comments

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The School Board is set to contract with Social Sentinel, a company that will troll social media accounts across Flagler for $18,500 and issue “alerts” to select officials. It’s an inappropriate move down a slippery slope.

Ballot Proposal Would Ensure Crime Victims Have Their Say in Plea Agreements and Sentencing

April 16, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

In Flagler County, victims routinely do so, and judges ask, during plea agreements and at sentencing, whether victims have been consulted. Victims also routinely address the court during sentencing hearings. (© FlaglerLive)

The proposal, which will need support from 60 percent of voters in November, would seek to ensure the rights of victims to receive information and provide input during criminal cases.

Felons’ Lawyers Accuse Scott and Cabinet of Foot-Dragging Over Judge’s Rights-Restoration Order

April 15, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Florida Cabinet at the beginning of its last meeting. (Florida Channel)

A federal judge who found the state’s vote-restoration process unconstitutional gave Scott and the Cabinet until April 26 to overhaul the process. They’ve done nothing.

12 Amendments Nearing Ballot, Including Bans on Offshore Drilling and Workplace Vaping, and Home Rule Overrides

April 6, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Heading for a workplace ban, though many local governments have already adopted bans on workplace vaping. (Ecig Click)

The list includes 12 ballot proposals that incorporate 24 potential changes to the Florida Constitution. All of the proposals were initially endorsed by the commission.

Jury Finds Ex-Elections Supervisor Kimberle Weeks Guilty On All 7 Felony Counts of Illegally Recording Others

April 5, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

A jury found Kimberle Weeks guilty on felony counts today, ending a four-day trial in a three-year case. But the defense will appeal. (c FlaglerLive)

Former Flagler County Elections Supervisor Kimberle Weeks was found guilty on felony counts that she illegally recorded other officials during her tenure.

Kimberle Weeks Trial Day 3: Defense Opts Against Putting On a Case, Relying on Outlier Theory Instead

April 4, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Kimberle Weeks's lawyers have been as if channeling her outlier predilections into their legal arguments to the jury. Closing arguments are Thursday. (c FlaglerLive)

In an echo of Kimberle Weeks’s own irreverence toward established law, her lawyers are arguing an untested and unusual interpretation of what amounts to a public meeting: all conversations between public officials involving public business.

10 Florida Cities Challenge State Law Barring Local Governments From Passing Gun Ordinances

April 3, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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Elected officials from 10 Florida cities are challenging an NRA-backed state law that imposes strict penalties on local lawmakers for enacting gun ordinances.

Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland’s State Of the City Address at Community Center

April 3, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland. (c FlaglerLive) state of the city

The full text of Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland’s State of the City Address at an event produced by the Observer Tuesday.

‘Aggressive’ New Advance Directive Would Let Dementia Patients Refuse Food

April 2, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders are common. Do not feed orders, not so much, but New York may be opening the way to giving patients with dementia that option.

Trump’s Census Whitewash

April 1, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

The featured image under 'Immigration' at the White House website has nothing to do with what made America great--its immigrants--but with the heavily armed policing of the border.

The Trump administration’s decision to include a question on the census about citizenship is intended to under-count immigrants and skew numbers to favor whiter voting districts.

New Law Gives Property Owners Right to Restrict Beach Access. Flagler Working On Protecting Public’s “Customary Use”

March 29, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

A new Florida law could potentially allow private property owners with beachfront property to put up No Trespassing signs on dry-sand areas of the beach, above the mean high-tide waterline, countering decades of customary use of the beaches--and prohibitions of such signs in Flagler. (© FlaglerLive)

The new and unusual Florida law allows beachfront property owners the right to wall off or restrict dry-sand areas from public use, but Flagler government intends to protect that “customary use” despite the law.

Florida an Outlier on Restoration of Felons’ Right to Vote, Barring 1.6 million Off Rolls

March 28, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Automatically restoring the right to vote for convicted felons in Florida could add between 600,000 and 1.6 million voters to the state’s voting rolls.

Judge Craig Is Out, Judge Perkins Is In As Flagler’s Felony and Civil Benches Again Flip

March 28, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Judge Terrence Perkins will take over the felony docket in Flagler County, for Judge Dennis Craig, and the civil docket previously handled by Scott DuPont. (© FlaglerLive)

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins will replace Dennis Craig, who’s headed back to Volusia, becoming the sixth judge in eight years to preside over Flagler County’s felony court.

“March For Our Lives” Draws 100 Along Palm Coast Parkway in Orange Echo of Global Student Movement

March 24, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 55 Comments

More than 100 people stretched across Palm Coast Parkway on both sides of Boulder Rock Drive this morning between 10 a.m., and noon. Many demonstrators went on to other planned marches in the region, from St. Augustine to Orlando. Click on the image for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast demonstrators joined some 800 planned March For Our Lives protests across the globe today, calling for sensible gun control and a ban on assault-type weapons.

Florida Voters Denied Choice on Gun Restrictions as Constitution Commission Holsters Proposal

March 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Floridians won’t have an opportunity to decide whether the state should ban semi-automatic weapons or have gun-related restrictions after the Constitution Revision Commission rejected attempts to debate the proposals.

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