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Coral Springs Insurance Adjuster Busted In $11M Insurance Fraud Scam

Coral Springs Insurance Adjuster Busted In $11 Million Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme Angela Marie Augustine State investigators arrested a Coral Springs insurance adjuster on Wednesday. They accuse Angela Marie Augustine of being the mastermind behind a massive automobile insurance fraud scheme.  The Florida Bureau of Insurance Fraud investigated the case. They found Augustine made 1,255…

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Man's child pornography arrest: 'More charges are expected' when encryption defeated

(As originally published, Thu, January 18th 2024) THE VILLAGES, Fla. (TND) — A tip about a man uploading child pornography led to his arrest on a possession charge but authorities say “more charges are expected.” According to Sumter County detectives in Florida, “The image uploaded appeared to be a child under the age of 10.” They investigated and early last Wednesday, Jan. 10, served a search…

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FDLE Announces the Arrest of Orlando Neo-Nazi Demonstrator Who Placed Anti-Semitic Posters Along I-4

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agents, with the assistance of the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), arrested Jason Brown, 48, Cape Canaveral, for hanging swastikas and other antisemitic banners along the Daryl Carter Parkway Bridge in Orlando. There are currently three outstanding arrest warrants for additional demonstrators who live out of state and whose actions…

[justinspoliticalcorner]

S. Baum at Erin In The Morning:

When 20-year-old college student Marcy Rheintgen made her yearly spring break trip to her grandparents’ property in Florida, she said she felt at peace — until March 19, when police escorted her out of the bathroom of the State Capitol Building and placed her in handcuffs. Evidently, Rheintgen had violated a 2023 state law criminalizing trans people who use government-owned public restrooms that align with their gender. Tampa Bay Times reporter Romy Ellenbogen accompanied Rheintgen to the Capitol. When they arrived, several officers were stationed outside the women’s restroom doors. They warned her not to enter the women’s restroom. Draped in a white, frilly dress and a pink bow, Rheintgen went in anyway and washed her hands. That’s when police entered the restroom and told Rheintgen she was being detained. A devout Catholic, she had wanted to take a moment to pray the rosary, but she never got the chance. After spending less than 60 seconds in the women’s restroom, Rheintgen said, she was charged with trespassing with a warning. Meanwhile, her rosary was confiscated as an officer from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement handcuffed and detained Rheintgen, searched her person and her vehicle, and then shuttled her to the Leon County Detention Facility, where she stayed overnight in the men’s ward. If convicted, she could spend up to 60 days incarcerated. The FDLE did not respond to a request for comment. About a week before her trek, she sent about a hundred and sixty print letters to Florida lawmakers announcing she would engage in the time-honored practice of civil disobedience: She would use the women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol. She named her date and time.

“I know that as a transgender woman, this means I will probably be arrested. I am violating laws because I personally believe it to be wrong. “I’m not a political activist,” she told Erin in the Morning. “I’m just a normal college student who thinks this law is wrong.”

[...] Rheintgen said she was motivated to act after seeing the anti-trans legislation surge throughout the United States, and when she read about Hunter Schafer, the Euphoria actress, who was issued a “male” passport despite being a woman. “She’s a personal hero of mine,” Rheintgen said. The fear and the vitriol she saw play out over the news cycle brought her to a breaking point. While bills like bathroom bans and drag bans have been sweeping the country in recent years, the criminalization of gender diverse people is by no means new. Black and brown trans women, especially, have been routinely criminalized for decades under the guise of “solicitation” or “loitering” ordinances, even in a so-called liberal stronghold like New York. The phenomenon is so pervasive that it has been dubbed the “Walking While Trans Ban.”

20-year-old trans woman Marcy Rheintgen put civil disobedience into action against Florida’s unjust bathroom bans for trans people into action. 🏳️‍⚧️

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LGBTQ Nation: Trans woman arrested for washing her hands in a women’s bathroom

[beardedmrbean]

A man was arrested after deputies said he drove to Forsyth County to meet a minor he had been communicating with online.

Forsyth County deputies said it happened last week. Authorities said Giovanni Moran, 31, began chatting with a minor online. Deputies said the conversations moved from “simple juvenile” conversations to other things.

According to Forsyth County officials, the child and Moran had been chatting for months before the interactions led to the suspect coaxing the child to leave home with him.

Within hours of taking the report, Forsyth detectives identified Moran and knew he had traveled to Forsyth County and then returned to Osceola County near Orlando, Florida.

Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), and the FBI Offices in Orlando and Gainesville began searching for Moran.

He was arrested and the child was rescued. The child’s age was not released.

“Do not mess with our elderly or kids, we will hunt you down,” the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said.

Moran is charged with interstate interference with custody but more charges are pending in Forsyth County and Orlando. He is being held in the Osceola County Jail on no bond. He will be extradited back to Georgia.

The FCSO shared a few ways to keep your teens safe online:

Be aware of what your children are doing online and what sites they are visiting.

Search and review what and who your child is corresponding with online.

Set boundaries and warn about dangers. Boundaries should be age-appropriate and set what programs they may use.

Keep lines of communication open. Let them know they can approach you with any questions or concerns they may have encountered online.

[intothewildsstuff]

DeSantis election police questions people who signed petition for abortion ballot - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/09/desantis-election-abortion-referendum-fdle/

I'd tell them to go fuck off as it's not illegal. Talk about being an asshole bully - can you imagine him in any federal position!

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

Rhonda Santis entire political career is built on deceit and deception. He and his goon squad pressure and intimidate the Florida state legislature, state agencies and local authorities (remember the COVID data) to bend to whatever his whim of the moment may be.  

He’s weaponized his office and the state government to lie and mislead people so he could push the Republican white, “Christian”, hateful, narrow-minded, bigoted, ignorant, discriminatory anti-American fascist agenda.   

[mariacallous]

Since announcing his presidential bid, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made being “tough-on-crime” a cornerstone of his campaign. As purported proof of his track-record on public safety, he’s claimed that Florida “leads the nation” in crime reduction and is experiencing 50-year crime lows.

At the same time, he’s criticized “big progressive cities,” like Chicago, Philadelphia and Portland, Or. and blamed their justice reform policies for crime, while arguing that Florida’s pro-law enforcement stance is responsible for its relative safety.

The problem with these claims is that they are not only factually inaccurate, they also show just how little the presidential hopeful knows about crime in his own state—let alone the nation’s. DeSantis’ arguments deserve further investigation because they rely on inaccurate data that don’t (and can’t) paint the full picture of crime in Florida, obscures place-based variations and upticks in certain forms of crime across Florida, and contradicts the evidence on the relationship between criminal justice reform and crime.

Florida’s crime data are too flawed to claim 50-year lows

DeSantis can’t be sure that Florida has achieved 50-year crime rate lows because the state itself doesn’t know what its crime trends are, due to flawed data.

This is because, in 2021, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) was in the process of shifting from its traditional data collection system—the Summary Reporting System, which reports monthly crime counts and documents only the most serious offense in an incident—to align with new national FBI reporting standards, the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS), which includes a greater number of crimes and allows for the reporting multiple offenses within one incident. While the NIBRS system will be an important transition in the long-term for more accurate crime reporting nationwide, some state agencies, including FDLE, did not meet the FBI’s 2021 reporting deadline and were excluded from national crime statistics.

In the place of accurate FBI data, DeSantis is basing his claims about Florida’s crime rates on FDLE’s 2021 annual crime report. This report is methodologically flawed since a total of 239 agencies (covering about half the state’s population) reported their crime trends using the old Summary Reporting System methodology. Others submitted with the new NIBRS methodology, others did a mix of both, and some—including Hillsborough County, where Tampa is—didn’t enter data whatsoever, meaning they were excluded from the 2021 statewide crime trends that DeSantis regularly cites.

These methodological clashes in Florida’s crime reporting create gaps in information that make it difficult to definitively claim any statewide crime trends—let alone that the state has reached “50-year-crime rate lows.”

Florida cities lagged behind more “progressive” cities in crime reduction

DeSantis’ “tough-on-crime” rhetoric relies on state-level “total crime” data to argue that Florida outperforms more progressive places (particularly cities) in crime reduction. Even if Florida’s state-level data was accurate, this comparison wouldn’t make sense for two reasons.

First, it compares Florida’s state-level data with cities, while ignoring place-based patterns of crime concentration within Florida itself. Meaning, DeSantis’ claims don’t acknowledge the “neutralizing” effect that state data can have on crime trends, if some Florida cities experienced sharp upticks in crime while others saw declines.

Second, DeSantis’ claims rely on statewide “total crime” rates, which can also be misleading if certain minor crimes (like shoplifting or drug possession) went down across the state, while more serious crimes (like murder or rape) went up.

To help determine whether Florida cities have truly made progress in reducing serious crimes—and to see how they stand up to “more progressive” peers—we analyzed local police department data from the state’s four largest cities’ and compared their crime reduction rates with four other cities (Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Richmond, California) that are relatively “progressive” on criminal justice, many of which have shouldered their share of criticisms from DeSantis.

Our analysis finds that place matters when talking about crime trends, and the story DeSantis is telling about the state of Florida versus “big progressive cities” in other states is much more complex than he makes it seem.

Looking at changes in violent crime rates between 2019 (the year DeSantis took office) and 2021 (the most recent year data were available), we found that three of Florida’s largest cities—Jacksonville, Tampa, and Orlando—had significant upticks in violent crime. Tampa led the bunch with a 37% spike, then Jacksonville at 21%, and Orlando at 19%. Miami, on the other hand, saw its violent crime rate decrease by 8%.

Looking at other cities deemed “progressive” on criminal justice—Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Richmond, Ca.—all made more progress on reducing violent crime rates than Tampa, Jacksonville, and Orlando.

For instance, Richmond— which has embraced public health and community violence intervention approaches to reducing crime—reduced its violent crime rate by 20% during this period (during which violent crimes were spiking nationwide).

And New York City—one of DeSantis’ favorite targets and a city that has, for decades, championed safety through environmental design (such as cleaning up public spaces and train stations)—had the lowest violent crime rate of any in the sample in 2021 at 439 violent crimes per 100,000 people compared to Orlando’s 832 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

Our analysis makes it clear that there is no one “statewide” story that can be told about crime—and that many of Florida’s largest cities are not achieving the violent crime reductions that DeSantis claims.

“Progressive” criminal justice reform policies do not cause crime

DeSantis’ “tough-on-crime” message hinges on blaming progressive criminal justice reforms, like ending cash bail or electing a progressive prosecutor, for rising crime rates.

But the evidence on the relationship between criminal justice reform and crime rates do not support his claims. New York’s 2019 bail reform legislation, for instance, was found to have a negligible effect on crime rates. Progressive prosecution practices in cities like Philadelphia, too, have not led to crime increases. In fact, some cities like Boston and Baltimore, have actually reduced violent crime by stopping the prosecution of lower-level offenses, like nonviolent misdemeanors, which often make it hard for individuals to obtain a job or a loan due to criminal records, and can increase their likelihood of further criminal justice system involvement.

Importantly, the non-Florida cities in our sample have made significant strides in reducing violent crime through the kinds of “progressive” non-punitive approaches that DeSantis would call “soft-on-crime.” In Philadelphia, for instance, efforts to transform and clean vacant lots in high-poverty neighborhoods were associated with a 29% reduction in gun violence. Similar strategies are working in Chicago. And all four have “violence interrupter” programs, which have been associated with a 63% decrease in gun violence in the Bronx, and a 43% reduction in Richmond.

On the other hand, many of the “tough-on-crime” policies that DeSantis proposed in his criminal justice package—including permit-less carry and stronger penalties for drug crimes—are associated with higher violent crime rates and lasting reductions in social mobility for communities of color. So, when DeSantis argues that reducing crime requires punitive approaches over root-cause ones, it may be time to ask him what his tough-on-crime stance has done for Tampa, where violent crime rates are up nearly 40%.

When DeSantis compares “crime-ridden” cities like New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia to his “safe” state of Florida, it is important to remember there is much more context, nuance, and evidence underlying the picture he’s painting. DeSantis’ flawed statements on crime and safety matter—not just for winning campaigns—but for ensuring the safety and well-being of all Florida residents.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

No wonder his campaign is in such disarray. What's Dishonest DeSantis got to hide?

Aides to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have led a purge of the state’s top law enforcement agency after pushback over an attempt to block a lawsuit seeking the release of records related to the Governor’s taxpayer-funded travel and security detail. Officials with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) clashed with the Governor’s office, arguing there were legal grounds to hand over at least some of the records. The Governor’s staff, known for having little toleration for disagreement, responded by removing the FDLE dissenters. At the heart of the dispute between Governor DeSantis‘s office and the FDLE is a new Florida law which shields the governor’s travel records from the public, including the media. The law was part of a package of bills passed by the Florida legislature this past spring, which DeSantis used to increase his power while shielding himself from public scrutiny. Top staff at the FDLE argued the disclosure law did not prevent them from handing over basic cost records in compliance with public requests. Aides for DeSantis responded to the FDLE’s position by blocking the promotion of at least one dissenting attorney in the agency, as well as pushing out the FDLE’s deputy chief of staff Patricia Carpenter and chief of staff Shane Desguin. Despite the Governor’s position arguing the law essentially shields almost all details about his travel and security detail from the public, the Republican sponsor of the statute says this was not his intent. State Rep. Jeff Holcomb says the law was simply intended to prevent individuals from constructing a ‘security profile’ of the Florida Governor using sensitive travel and security information. Preventing the public from obtaining basic information such as the taxpayer cost of the Governor’s security detail was not the end goal.

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Florida - First Mission from Israel Returns Nearly 300 Americans

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Announces First Mission from Israel Returns Nearly 300 Americans Home TALLAHASSEE, FL (STL.News) Sunday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the first mission has arrived from Israel with evacuees who were unable to return home due to commercial flight cancellations.  Florida partnered with Project Dynamo to bring nearly 300 evacuees home from Israel, including more than 270 to Tampa and seven to Orlando this afternoon.  Once the plane landed in Tampa, evacuees were able to access resources from multiple state agencies.  Additionally, the Governor is sending medical supplies, hygiene products, clothing, and children’s toys to Israel to help impacted Israelis. “Just a few days ago, I signed an Executive Order to allow Florida to carry out logistical, rescue, and evacuation operations to bring Floridians back home and provide important supplies to our valued ally, Israel,” said Governor Ron DeSantis.  “I am proud of how quickly we have been able to activate resources and do what the federal government could not – get Floridians and other Americans back home, reunited with their families, free of charge.” “Following last week’s unprovoked and heinous attacks by Hamas, Governor Ron DeSantis took immediate action to help Floridians in Israel,” said Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez.  “Our administration will continue to work to safely bring Floridians home and support the people of Israel as they fight back to defend themselves.” “Israel mourns its more than 1400 murdered and 150 hostages in the devastating unprovoked terror attack perpetrated by Hamas,” said Consul General of Israel to Florida, Maor Elbaz-Starinsky. “We have gone to war to eradicate Hamas and its allies and to uphold our values of freedom, humanity, and the sanctity of life.  The support we are receiving from Governor DeSantis, the First Lady, FDEM Executive Director Kevin Guthrie, Florida Commerce Secretary Alex Kelly, FDLE Commissioner Mark Glass, and his entire administration and the state is overwhelming.  We are very grateful for the special flights and supplies.” “We have a dedicated team of volunteers who work tirelessly to ensure the well-being of Americans caught in crisis situations all over the world,” said Bryan Stern, Project Dynamo CEO and Founder.  “It’s truly heart-wrenching to watch the destruction unfolding in Israel.  We’re so grateful to Governor DeSantis for partnering with us on this mission to save every American in need.” On October 12, 2023, Governor DeSantis signed Executive Order 23-208 to allow the State of Florida to carry out logistical, rescue, and evacuation operations to keep its residents safe.  Specifically, this order enables the Florida Division of Emergency Management to bring Floridians home and transport necessary supplies to Israel. The Florida Division of Emergency Management will lead efforts for additional flights, which will take more supplies to Israel and continue to bring Floridians back home. The Governor has also surged law enforcement resources upon request to prevent violence at demonstrations and protect Jewish schools and synagogues.  The Governor directed FDLE and FHP to work with the Attorney General’s Office and issue memos to law enforcement and Florida universities, reminding them of their responsibility to protect the Jewish community from threats and unlawful harassment.  Florida will not tolerate hate or violence towards the Jewish community. If you or someone you know is a Florida citizen who is unable to leave Israel due to the current situation, visit FloridaDisaster.Org/Israel to fill out the form. SOURCE: Florida Governor Read the full article

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This lesson sets up an assessment, assuming that students have already learned the fundamentals of how to construct a clear line graph using provided data.

EQ:

How can graphs be used to persuade the public of important concerns?

Do Now:

Students observe the graph in the original post, as well as a quick explanation of the SYG laws, and answer a few questions about the effectiveness of Florida Stand Your Ground Laws as measured by the graph.

Class Discussion:

Have students debate their responses. If any student groups caught the fuckery, reward them with candy or Class Dojo points or whatever.

Direct Instruction:

Show students how the original data was never altered, because that would be fraud by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Instead, they used tricky tactics to manipulate the presentation of the data. You should show students the data from the FDLE official website that clearly lays out how total firearm deaths jumped from 521 in 2005 to 740 in 2006 (a 42.0% increase).

Higher Order Learning:

Students work individually or in small groups to analyze the data from the official FDLE Florida Statewide Murder by Firearm, 1971 - 2020 (same as cited above) to answer the following question:

Is there any evidence that an increase in non-handgun firearms (such as automatic weapons) leads to an increase in the overall murder rate? Create a graph that presents your findings without any accompanying text except for title and labels.

So can we talk about the absolutely stunning duplicity going on here?

[talkoftitusville]

Titusville Officer-Involved Shooting Deemed Lawful and Justified

The 18th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office has determined that the officer-involved shooting that resulted in the death of 25-year-old Tri-Marea Charles in February was lawful and justified, according to a news release from the Titusville Police Department on Tuesday. The announcement comes four months after the February 7th incident. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE)…

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Another woman was sexually attacked, chained, and put in a container; one woman died.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says the suspect, David Earl Gipson, is in custody. Sheriff Kevin crews said they had several agencies assist in the arrest of Gipson Tuesday, including the members of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, Washington County Emergency Medical Services, the State’s Attorney’s Office, the Medical Examiner’s Office, FDLE, Holmes County Sheriff’s Office, Bay…