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A 14-year-old was arrested Friday night with a loaded handgun at a high school football game at Cox Stadium.
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“Local officials should not be held accountable financially, personally, for anything that they do in the course of their everyday business,” says Gil Ziffer, a former Tallahassee City Commissioner who was sued with other city leaders in 2014.
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The Florida Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a 2011 state law surrounding guns. Leon County government is part of the case.
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As a national debate rages over gun laws after last month’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, proponents of “red-flag” policies point to a Florida law as a model for states seeking to strip deadly weapons from people who could cause harm.
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With mass shootings refueling a national debate about gun laws, the Florida Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in a dispute about a 2011 state law that threatens stiff penalties if city and county officials pass gun-related regulations.
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Democrats seeking to curb gun violence face headwinds in the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature. On the flipside, Republican proposals that seek to loosen gun restrictions may also face pushback.
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A federal judge has upheld a 2018 Florida law that prevents people under age 21 from buying guns. The ruling came more than three years after the Republican-controlled Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Scott rushed to approve the restriction following a massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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Pointing to “far-reaching, statewide implications,” local governments want the Florida Supreme Court to rule in a case about a 2011 state law that threatens tough penalties if city and county officials approve gun-related regulations.
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As mass shootings continue to rock the country, Florida lawmakers say more needs to be done to ensure students are safe. For some that means allowing more…
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On the nineteenth anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, students in Florida’s capital joined their counterparts across the nation in a school…