BrowardBeat.com by Buddy Nevins NOTE: Evan Jenne and Jared Moskowitz switched their votes to NO after the vote was tallied. Bobby DuBose, Katie Edwards, Evan Jenne, Shevrin Jones, Jared Moskowitz and Patricia Williams – all from Broward – are state representatives of The People. Apparently that label has a great big footnote. They are representatives […]
Bill filed to bar access to recordings of Pulse-like attacks
Public access to video and audio recordings of someone’s death would be banned under a bill filed in the Legislature, attracting concerns from open-government and transparency advocates who say it would squelch oversight of law enforcement. Barbara Petersen, president of the First Amendment Foundation, which advocates for access to public records, said she thinks the bill would block […]
Confidential file on missing child reveals mom’s rage, DCF’s bungling
August 20, 2016 – Miami Herald by Carol Marbin Miller and David Ovalle When Marjorie Dufrene’s hyperactive, developmentally disabled son refused to concentrate on his homework on Thanksgiving Day of 2011, she beat him with a belt so severely that he required surgery to restore vision to his left eye. When, two months later, the […]