FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 4 - Caught on Camera

Ron DeSantis’ school board coup

Controversial Parkland report allowed DeSantis to take over the school board in Florida’s most liberal county

Salon · Sep 2, 2022

Cases against 20 arrested voters in Florida on shaky legal ground. State issued them voter IDs

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Two weeks after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s top election officials stood in a Broward County courtroom and announced the arrest of 20 people for voting illegally, the state’s case is starting to fall apart.

Miami Herald · Aug 31, 2022

Filipino teachers share how they’re adjusting to their new lives in Florida

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Onofre Bejona spent his 34th birthday riding the bus alone, readying himself for the next three years of his life. It was Aug. 14, and the teacher had arrived in Broward only a few days before from his home in Malita, a city in the southern…

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

Florida governor suspends school board quartet over Parkland shooting report

Ron DeSantis acts on recommendation in report from grand jury investigating 2018 shooting in which 17 people were killed

The Guardian - US · Aug 26, 2022

DeSantis removes 4 school board members accused of ‘incompetence and neglect’ after Parkland massacre

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a grand jury up on its recommendation Friday afternoon to remove four Broward School Board members after a scathing report that accused them of having “engaged in acts of incompetence and neglect of duty.”

Tribune News Service · Aug 26, 2022

Grand jury wants school board members removed over massacre

A Florida grand jury empaneled after a deadly mass shooting at a Parkland high school has recommended that four members of that school board be fired

The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2022

20 are accused of illegally voting in Florida. DeSantis calls it ‘the opening salvo’ in cases

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that state agents were arresting 20 Florida felons who he said voted illegally in 2020, declaring it the first step in what he promised would be an overdue effort to ensure election integrity.

Tribune News Service · Aug 19, 2022

20 accused of illegally voting across Florida, DeSantis says

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced 20 people in the state have been arrested and charged with illegally voting in Florida.

Tribune News Service · Aug 18, 2022

Jurors learn details about what Parkland shooter was texting and looking up on his cellphone

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sitting in an Uber on his way to carrying out his massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Parkland school shooter was busy on his phone looking up the music video for “Pumped Up Kicks,” a song about a gunman targeting unarmed victims, a Broward…

Tribune News Service · Aug 1, 2022

Union files complaint against lawyer Ben Crump over his race-related remarks in teen’s rough arrest

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A union representing Broward sheriff’s deputies has filed a bar complaint against Ben Crump, the nationally known civil-rights lawyer, accusing him of bringing up a racial issue where they say none existed in a case involving the rough arrest of a Black teen.

Tribune News Service · Jul 29, 2022