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Rights & Liberties

You Don’t Get To Discriminate Just Because You’re Religious

May 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A fair housing protest in 1964 Seattle. (Wikemedia Commons)

A bill in Texas would allow professionals of all kinds — doctors, pharmacists, electricians — to deny services to LGBTQ customers on religious grounds, a consequence of a recurring misinterpretation of law.

Federal Lawsuit Targets Florida Prisons Over ‘Deliberately Indifferent’ Use of Solitary Confinement

May 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Florida’s prison system is “widely overusing” the practice of solitary confinement to manage inmates, sometimes locking them up in cells that are no bigger than a parking spaces over often-minor infractions, according to a federal lawsuit.

DeSantis Will Sign Controversial Bill With Conditions on Felons’ Voting Rights

May 7, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

amendment 4

Earlier in the day, the League of Women Voters of Florida held a conference call with reporters urging DeSantis to veto the Amendment 4 implementation bill.

All I Want For Mother’s Day Is Equality For My Transgender Child

May 6, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

She wasn’t allowed to use the girls’ bathroom. She had shoes thrown at her head when she wore leggings and lacy tops. She endured public school teachers making the sign of the cross and running off when she walked between classes.

The Real Threat To Free Speech On Campus

May 2, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Conservatives complain when student protest hate speech, while progressive professors are the ones losing their jobs for speaking out as people of color and other marginalized demographics are demonized.

A Middle School PAL Coach Is Ordered Off Matanzas High Property for Wearing an FPC Shirt. Disbelief Follows.

May 2, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 57 Comments

Coach Derrick Griffin, seen here at Indian Trails Middle School, where he works, coaches PAL track and was asked to remove the FPC shirt he wore while on Matanzas High School's track. (© FlaglerLive)

Derrick Griffin, a 35-year-old Navy veteran and beloved and respected coach of 50 Indian Trails Middle School PAL track students, was ordered to wear a Matanzas shirt or get off Matanzas’ track the last week of the season.

House Passes Controversial Felons’ Voting-Rights Bill, Setting Up Financial Hurdles Before Restoration

April 25, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

House Rep. James Grant gets his way. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

The House’s party-line, 71-45 vote drew a rebuke from backers of the amendment, who called the bill “a failure to live up to the bipartisan commitment” demonstrated by the 61 percent of voters who approved Amendment 4.

It’ll Be Harder For Citizens To Get Their Initiatives On the Ballot If House Has Its Way

April 21, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Suffragettes would know the score. (Library of Congress, Bain news Service, between 1910 and 1915)

Petition-gatherers to be registered with the state, ballots would have to include information about contributions raised by amendment sponsors, whether out-of-state petition circulators were used and whether amendments could lead to tax increases.

New Florida Supreme Court Flexes Rightward Muscle, Overturning Two January Decisions

April 19, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A February photo shoot at the Supreme Court, updating the court's new make-up. (Florida Supreme Court)

Justices, in a pair of 6-1 opinions Thursday, overturned the two rulings. The only dissenter in both cases: Justice Jorge Labarga, who had sided with Pariente, Lewis and Quince in January.

Nanny Senate: Students Would Have to Get Parental Consent Before Seeking Mental Health or Birth Control

April 11, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Do you have to make? Beverly Goldberg finds friends in the Florida Senate. (ABC)

The so-called “Parents Bill of Rights” would allow parents to access and review all of their children’s school records and change the way students can seek mental-health and reproductive-health services, including counseling and birth control prescriptions.

Renner’s Panel Goes Jekyll and Hyde on Felons, Easing Punishments But Not Voting Rights

April 9, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Paul Renner, the Palm Coast Republican, chairing the House Judiciary Committee this afternoon. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

The House Judiciary Committee Palm Coast’s Paul Renner chairs on Tuesday passed a crime bill that eases some punishments and makes it easier for felons to reintegrate society but also passed a restrictive interpretation of Amendment 4 and felons’ right to vote.

Senate Panel Advances Bill That Would Require Felons to Pay Fines and Restitution Before Voting

April 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Desmond Meade, executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration and chair of the sponsoring committee of Amendment 4 for Floridians for a Fair Democracy, addressing the Senate committee today. (© FlaglerLive cia Florida Channel)

The 3-2 party-line vote followed a hurried 27-minute hearing on the bill, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Brandes, the Pinellas County Republican. Opponents of the bill are pleading to make financial burdens a roadblock to voting.

Felons’ Right To Vote and Paul Renner’s Cynical End Run Around Amendment 4

April 6, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Rep. Disingenuous, R-Palm Coast: Paul Renner defends the wrong cause on Amendment 4. (© FlaglerLive)

Paul Renner, Flagler’s GOP representative and future Speaker of the House, is being dishonest and disingenuous in his defense of a bill that would make felons’ right to vote dependent on paying back all financial obligations.

Past Prison Sentences Could Be Reduced as Criminal Justice Reform Advances at Legislature

April 1, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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A bill that would give the Legislature power to decide on a law-by-law basis whether to reduce past prison sentences cleared a Senate panel Monday following tearful testimony from criminal-justice reform advocates.

‘That’s Like a Poll Tax’: Senate Bill Would Require All Restitution Paid Before Restoring Voting Right

March 25, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

'$59 million. Really?,' Karen Leicht told a Senate panel. 'You think I can ever pay that? I’ll never vote in this state again, at this rate. That’s like a poll tax.' (NSF)

Dozens of people who traveled to the state Capitol to plead with lawmakers to do nothing or to dramatically scale back House and Senate bills designed to carry out the amendment. Many amendment supporters do not believe the measure requires legislative action.

Nelson Mandela’s Legacy of Activism: Ndaba Mandela, His Grandson, Speaks at Stetson

March 25, 2019 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Ndaba Mandela will discuss social justice and experiences he shared with his grandfather, who raised him while his parents were in college, on Tuesday at 6 p.m., at Stetson University as part of Stetson’s Many Voices, One Stetson initiative.

The Familiar Face of White Supremacy

March 24, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 16 Comments

Brenton Tarrant

The fad of not naming mass killers is deceptive and self-defeating, an act of cowardice that hides more than it wants to acknowledge. Brenton Tarrant, the killer of Christchurch, is an all–too familiar face.

Stetson Issues Explicit Defense of Free and Controversial Expression on Campus, Whatever the ‘Discomforts’

March 23, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

stetson free speech

In the culmination of a year-and-a-half process, Stetson University this week issued a statement firmly in defense of academic freedom and free, diverse and controversial expression on campus.

Critics See Jim Crow Poll Taxes In House Plan To Make Felons Pay Up Before Voting

March 19, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Florida has a hankering for bad old days: a black man steps up to the 'colored' section of a movie house. (Library of Congress)

Felons would have to clear up any financial obligations, including court costs, fees and fines, before having their voting rights restored, under a House proposal castigated by critics Tuesday as a modern take on Jim Crow-era poll taxes designed to keep black voters from participating in elections.

House Piles Up Exceptions and Controversies to Automatic Restoration of Felons’ Voting Rights

March 18, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

House Criminal Justice Chairman James Grant, R-Tampa, lengthens the list of proposed exclusions. (NSF)

House proposals would broaden the definition of sex offenses that would keep a felon from regaining the right to vote and would add a slew of financial obligations before a felon could get the right back.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel Calls Suspension ‘a Political Power Play’ By DeSantis

March 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Broward Sheriff Scott Israel, right. (Facebook)

In a court filing, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel’s lawyer argued the suspension “is an affront to the Florida Constitution and the fundamental right of voters to choose their elected officials.”

Criticizing Israel Isn’t Anti-Semitic. Here’s What Is.

March 6, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has been weathering severe criticism over allegations of anti-Semitism. (Fibonacci Blue)

In light of accusations of anti-semitism being leveled against U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, what is anti-semitic is the cacophony of mainstream media and politicians saying that criticizing U.S. policy toward the state of Israel is the same as attacking Jewish people.

What National Emergency?

March 1, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Can you spot the emergency? (White House)

American leader not only genuflecting to autocrats from Turkey to Russia to Saudi Arabia, but behaving like them is a more serious national emergency than what few migrants are still crossing the border illegally.

Florida Takes Center Stage In Controversy Over Citizenship Question On Census Form

February 19, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Whom to count. (Ben Cooper)

Including the citizenship question could hurt Florida and other states with large immigrant populations in the decennial reapportionment process, a federal judge wrote.

Anthony Fennick’s Death and The Sheriff’s Green Roof Inn Smear

February 17, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

flagler jail green roof inn sign

Much is unknown in the death of inmate Anthony Fennick, but much is known, including the sheriff’s responsibility for hiring trouble-ridden Armor Health–and for showing inmates contempt from the outset with his “Green Roof Inn” sign.

Renner Wants ‘Objectivity’ To Drive Felons’ Voter Restoration, But Hurdles Are Multiplying

February 14, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

paul renner felons

Elections officials could face a Herculean task trying to verify whether people who’ve registered to vote have met all the conditions required to make them eligible to cast ballots.

Trump Said He Would Protect Families, Then Deported My Husband

February 12, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

A year ago, my husband Jorge was torn from our family and deported to Mexico after living peacefully in the United States for nearly 30 years, working and raising a family with me in suburban Detroit, the author writes.

Flagler Jail’s Private Provider Says Its Nurses Did Nothing Wrong in Fennick’s Death–and Asks for Reimbursements

February 11, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Inmates at the Flagler County jail. (© FlaglerLive)

Armor Correctional Health relieved two nurses of duty at the Flagler jail at the sheriff’s request, placing them on administrative leave and asking the sheriff to pay their salaries and their replacements’ salaries.

State GOP Targets ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Even Though There Are None in Florida

February 10, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

It's a matter of perspective. (Eric Wagner)

Critics of the bill argue efforts to outlaw “sanctuary cities” have more to do with partisanship than with thwarting an existing problem as there are no counties or cities in Florida that act as “sanctuaries” for undocumented immigrants.

GPS Ankle Monitors Give Local Cops Stronger Means of Enforcing No-Contact Orders

February 6, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A judge ordered Richard Maloney to wear a GPS tracker like the pone seen here to ensure that he stayed away from his wife's home as he faced a domestic violence charge. When he violated the no-go order, the device triggered an alert, and he was re-arrested.

Alleged domestic violence and other offenders released from jail to await trial usually must stay away from their victims, but such no-contact orders were harder to enforce until GPS devices have been attached to the offenders.

Ramping Up Surveillance, Sheriff Will Have Access to Live Video and Data From 44 Palm Coast Traffic Intersections

January 30, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

palm coast traffic signals have eyes. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast government and the Flagler Sheriff’s Office are teaming up to use a “traffic-optimization” camera network at intersection as a surveillance mechanism as well.

DeSantis Would Eliminate Ban on Smoking Medical Pot, Supporting Senate Bill

January 29, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The constitutional amendment says nothing against smoking it. (Evan)

But legislative leaders may not be keen on completely doing away with vertical integration, a move that could destabilize a growing and lucrative market in which one marijuana license recently sold for $63 million in cash.

Trump’s Fabulous Wall Fables

January 25, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 39 Comments

trump wall

We’re in a post-factual presidency where alternative facts are the equivalent of papal bulls. It’s about belief, not reality. For the sake of appearances though, let’s argue the facts about the wall for a moment.

Transgender Ban in Military Is About Bigotry and Distraction, Not Readiness or Cost

January 24, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Trump is using the ban purely to provoke the left, throw red meat to his base, and distract us all from the real issues in our nation, like the government shutdown.

In Restoration of Felons’ Voting Rights, Meaning of ‘Murder’ Becomes Stumbling Block

January 23, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Advocates for the restoration of voting rights for felons who've served their time. (NSF)

A new constitutional amendment grants “automatic” restoration of voting rights to felons who’ve completed their sentence, but it excludes people “convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense.”

With Carlos Muniz as 3rd Pick, DeSantis Touts ‘Newly Constituted’ Supreme Court

January 22, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Carlos Muniz was the general counsel at the U.S. Department of Education. (NSF)

The appointment of Muniz, 49, solidifies a conservative majority on the court after years of justices regularly thwarting the Republican-led Legislature and the GOP governor.

MLK’s Dream Of Economic Justice Deferred By Increasing Inequalities

January 21, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

King foreshadowed that if we maintain our exploitative economic and political systems, then we’d get not only racial apartheid, but economic apartheid as well.

Transgender Inmate Spurs Appeal as Florida Prisons Seek to Deny Her Gender Identity

January 3, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Reiyn Keohane in her Florida prisons mug shot, left, and in her Lee County mug shot from 2013, when she was arrested for attempted second degree murder. The Florida prison system still lists her as male.

Inmate Reiyn Keohane contends that her rights have been violated at least in part because she has not been allowed to wear women’s undergarments and groom as a woman.

In Novel Argument, Constitutional Amendment Spurs Call for Stay of Execution

December 11, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Jose Antonio Jimenez.

The arguments center on part of Amendment 11, which was approved by 62 percent of voters and which changed a more than century-old provision dealing with how revisions in criminal laws should be applied to older crimes.

The Migrant Caravan’s Lessons from South of the Border

December 6, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

In Tijuana, some Mexicans have embraced the Trump line on Central American migrants. But others have welcomed them with open arms.

Putnam Stays Out Fight Over Concealed Weapons Permits as His Office Goes to a Democrat

December 5, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Adam Putnam is walking away. (Flickr)

After the concealed-weapons permitting processed revealed serious flaws under Adam Putnam, attempts are afoot to move the process to state police, out of the agriculture commissioner’s purview.

Supervisors of Election Seek Answer on Amendment Restoring Felons’ Right to Vote

December 4, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Speaking to reporters Tuesday morning, Secretary of State Ken Detzner, who was appointed by Gov. Rick Scott, said it’s up to the Legislature and the Board of Executive Clemency to draft a blueprint for the amendment. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida officials don’t have a plan for how to carry out a constitutional amendment that restores the right to vote to more than a million Floridians convicted of felonies.

Florida Supreme Court Will have No
Black Justice For First Time in 36 Years

November 30, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The Florida Supreme Court is about to go whiter. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

None of the nine candidates from whom Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis will select three justices is black, although six of the original 59 applicants were African-Americans.

I’m Making It My Business To Stand Up For Immigrants

November 21, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

A new immigrant wealth test is a cruel maneuver to diminish instead of making the country stronger. We shouldn’t take food and health from people and denies them citizenship because they aren’t rich.

Emails May Be ‘Disgusting,’ But Judge Dismisses Part of NRA Lobbyist Hammer’s Lawsuit

November 21, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

NRA Lobbyist Marion Hammer, circa 1982. (Florida Memory)

A federal judge said Hammer was not threatened and the ugly emails she received are protected by the First Amendment. She received emails she objected to from three other men.

Judge Rules Palm Coast Has No Choice But To Execute Dangerous Dog Cooper, Ending Notorious Case

November 20, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Cooper has been quarantined at the Flagler Humane Society since February. The above picture, by the society, was taken in late October.

A circuit judge ruled that Palm Coast animal control was right to condemn Cooper, a dangerous dog, to death, and the Palm Coast City Council was right to stay out of it. The dog will soon be killed.

Flagler Schools Will Reluctantly Adopt Religious Freedom Policy Imposed By State

November 15, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

It's not just crosses, skullcaps and veils: a new policy will protect all religious expression, and non-expression, in public schools. (DragonOak)

The Flagler County school district is following state law in adopting a new but vague policy protecting religious expression, though some school board members say it’s an unnecessary imposition.

Amendments: Felons Will Get Voting Rights, Dogs Won’t Race Anymore, Homestead Expansion Fails

November 7, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The shackles are coming off on felon voting rights in Florida. (National Museum of American History)

More than 64 percent of Florida voters had cast ballots for Amendment 4, which is designed to restore voting rights to an estimated 1.4 million felons who have completed their sentences.

Being Trans in America Was Already Scary. Now It’s Terrifying.

November 6, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

On any given afternoon, the author is regularly and publicly catcalled, mocked, laughed at, and treated as an object of social disgust. Donald Trump is about to deny her right to exist.

Yes, Your Car Can Be A Weapon, Florida Supreme Court Rules, Altering ’95 Definition

November 4, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The Supreme Court made the somewhat-unusual move of backing away from a 1995 decision, which said a weapon must be “commonly understood to be an instrument for combat.”

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