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A Stand Your Ground-related bill passed the Florida Senate Wednesday, but not without some opposition. As the original bill sponsor, Sen. Dennis Baxley…
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A gun-related bill cleared its first committee Tuesday. In the PastIn 2011, a friend of then-Senator John Thrasher lost his daughter. A student at Florida…
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A pair of bills backed by the Innocence Project have passed their first committee hearing. Today, when law enforcement officers question a person in their…
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Sen. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, has filed a bill which would allow more guns in public places. The measure is part of a broader push by Republican…
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A Florida Senator has filed a measure that could change the way law enforcement agencies conduct lineups to help crime eyewitnesses avoid the…
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A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows Florida’s gun homicide rates have increased dramatically under Stand Your Ground. In…
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A Senate effort to expand Florida’s hate crime law to include law enforcement could be called the “Blue Lives Matter Act.” But, while the Florida Sheriffs…
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Florida lawmakers in both chambers are looking to revive legislation to expand the state’s definition of a hate crime to include first responders. If…
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A last vestige from one of the darkest chapters in Florida’s history fell in the Senate Tuesday. The members took a largely ceremonial vote to wipe a 1977…