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State official inheriting Florida migrant relocation program has questions about vendor

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The head of the state agency now tasked with handling Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant relocation program told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he was not sure whether he will continue the state’s arrangement with Vertol Systems Company, the politically-connected aviation company paid to transport migrants from…

In tweaking Florida’s secretive migrant flights program, lawmakers ask little, reveal less

MIAMI — Florida lawmakers gave preliminary approval to a measure that would not only expand Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ability to relocate migrants anywhere in the country but would allow his administration to hand out millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to companies to carry out the secretive program without disclosing…

Emails show use of private emails, encryption app in discussing Florida’s migrant relocations

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Newly released records from Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed that his public safety czar, Larry Keefe, communicated with a Destin-based contractor hired to fly migrants from Texas to Massachusetts using a private email account with the call name “Clarice Starling.”

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Records show more Florida payments to company involved in migrant flights. Where did $3.4 million go?

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The price tag is rising for Florida’s opaque program to relocate migrants from Texas to Democrat-leaning states.

Records show more Florida payments to company involved in migrant flights

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The price tag is rising for Florida’s opaque program to relocate migrants from Texas to Democrat-leaning states.

Editorial: On migrant flights, what is DeSantis hiding?

You can see why Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to prevent Floridians from learning more about the flights that took migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard.

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Watchdog wants Gov. DeSantis’ office held in contempt over unreleased migrant flight records

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A public records watchdog on Wednesday asked a Tallahassee judge to charge the DeSantis administration with contempt of court for continuing to withhold public records about its handling of the relocation of migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in September.

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DeSantis’ chief of staff, public safety czar now named in lawsuit over migrant flights

MIAMI — Two members of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration are among new defendants named in a class-action lawsuit filed against the governor over the plan to fly 49 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard earlier this year.

Before DeSantis could say he kicked migrants out of Florida, he had to pay to fly them in

MIAMI — Documents released this week by the aviation company that helped manage Florida’s $12 million migrant relocation program shed new light on behind-the-scenes dealings as the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis, working with the politically connected vendor, wriggled around a requirement that Florida use the money to export Florida…

Watchdog group sues Gov. DeSantis, claims public records law was violated over migrant flights

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A nonprofit government watchdog group has filed a lawsuit alleging Gov. Ron DeSantis and his staff violated the state public records law for failing to produce documents and other material it requested related to two flights relocating migrants from Texas to Massachusetts.

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Company hired to arrange Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant flights is tied to high-level state official

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration needed a company it could trust to carry out a controversial program to transport migrants to other states, it chose an unusual option.

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