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At Florida A&M University last week, critics of President Donald Trump’s administration took to the heart of campus to say no to what they believe is their university’s complicity with his immigration crackdown.
Dozens of students showed up to the protest organized by FAMU Students for a Democratic Society, a student coalition in Tallahassee, where the university is located.
The bill will allow untrained volunteers to provide armed security in churches, synagogues, and mosques. Currently, Florida requires armed security personnel to have a professional security license.
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The bill, which the Jacksonville Republican said “makes great strides to ensure Florida parents can make educated medical decisions for their school-aged children,” would prohibit the state health officers from mandating vaccines during public health emergencies. It would also expand religious and conscience-based exemptions for school entry and require new parental acknowledgment forms before minors receive vaccines.
“We’re making sure that parents have a choice. We’re not eliminating the vaccinations. We’re not eliminating the mandatory requirement. We already have the religious exemption, and now we would add in a conscience-based exemption, and treat it the same way that the religious exemption is treated under current law,” Yarborough said.
The Republican-controlled Florida Senate Friday voted down an effort to prod the state into finally expanding Medicaid to low-income, childless adults, as allowable under the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare.
The Senate once embraced the concept of expanding the safety net health care program to cover low-income workers but that effort — which occurred in 2015, when Rick Scott was governor — ultimately came up short.
The Florida Legislature will reach the end of its regular session Friday without having a new state budget ready.
What the Republican legislative leader did not say is what will happen after the clock strikes midnight on the 60th day and whether legislators will just extend their session or shut everything down and come back later to pass a budget.
City and county officials, law enforcement and community members came together Wednesday for a first-of-its-kind immigration forum hosted by Leon County Indivisible.
A full room of community members gathered to hear from a panel of elected officials and local leaders. Organizers with Leon County Indivisible say the goal of the forum was to bring people together and start open conversations about what kind of immigration enforcement has or hasn’t been happening in our city.
Vaccine policy is back in the spotlight in Tallahassee as lawmakers debate a proposal that would expand exemptions for required childhood immunizations.
The House voted 83-31 on the bill (HB 991), which contains wide-ranging changes to the state election code, including new proof-of-citizenship requirements when registering to vote, reductions to the kind of photo identification cards that can be used at polling locations, and requiring an individual’s legal citizenship status to be posted on drivers’ licenses and ID cards issued by the state.
If Florida enacts House Bill 945, it will create a national first – CIA-style structure at the state level that blurs the traditional line between state law enforcement and intelligence work.
The bill’s language allows scrutiny based on “views” and “opinions”, a standard that echoes some of the darkest chapters of American surveillance history. In the 1960s and 70s, the FBI’s Cointelpro program infiltrated protest movements, monitored journalists, and targeted civil rights leaders – not for crimes, but beliefs.
