Category: Parkland
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The hardest case for mercy; Inside the effort to spare the Parkland school shooter
By Joe Sexton
The Marshalll Project
In the summer of 1998, Brenda Woodard and Carolyn Deakins were two of the dozens of women selling sex on the streets of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was a desperate scene down by the 17th Street Causeway, the first bridge into the city from its south. The johns, many of them fresh arrivals from the nearby airport, would swing off U.S. 1, and conduct their business in cars along Miami Road… -
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DeSantis uses case of Parkland killer Cruz to play politics with the death penalty
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
With the Donald Dillbeck execution on Feb. 23, another one set for April 12 and many more inmates he can condemn at will, Gov. Ron DeSantis is using his death warrant power to brand himself as Florida’s chief avenger. -
Florida’s red flag gun law enforced haphazardly five years after Parkland massacre inspired legislation, research shows
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
In 2018 Florida legislators—even the NRA posse—bowed to the urgent need for gun control after a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School: They passed minimal reforms including a red flag law. -
Rampant cronyism, nepotism plague obscure Broward County water utility
By Bob Norman
Special to FloridaBulldog.org
As an elected official, Vincent Moretti’s job is to oversee the North Springs Improvement District (NSID), a public utility that services large portions of Coral Springs and Parkland. A big part of the 58-year-old NSID board president’s responsibility is providing a check on its mercurial manager, Rod Colon. -
BSO contract cities meet to discuss grievances, but Sheriff Tony is a no-show
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony was a no-show Wednesday for a meeting of Broward mayors and other representatives of more than a dozen municipalities that contract, or are considering contracting, with BSO for expensive police and/or fire rescue services. -
Broward cities that pay sheriff for police/fire services consider heading for the exits amid unrest over costs, control
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A rebellion is brewing among the 13 cities that pay tens of millions of dollars to the Broward Sheriff’s Office every year for police and fire services.
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