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A bill to allow law enforcement to use drones for collecting evidence at crime scenes and traffic crashes passed its second committee stop today.
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The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports a fellow officer recently filed an anonymous complaint against Chief Bernadette DiPino over comments she made about a homeless man. DiPino's resignation goes into effect Friday.
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Bernadette DiPino has served as Sarasota's police chief since 2012. Her resignation is effective Friday.
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About eight months after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis touched off nationwide "Black Lives Matter" protests, a Florida state senator has filed a bill that targets strangulation by police officers.
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A Polk Sheriff's deputy is in jail for allegedly texting a fellow deputy that lawmakers on Capitol Hill should have been "executed."
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The FDLE conducted the search at Jones’ house after an investigation allegedly linked her home address to a Nov. 10 message sent on an internal Department of Health multi-user account.
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A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court decision that sided with a series of defendants, including Broward County, Superintendent of Schools Robert Runcie, former Sheriff Scott Israel and former school-resource officer Scot Peterson.
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The video shows authorities knocking on her door multiple times before serving a search warrant.
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Sarasota attorney Ron Filipkowski says he was already unhappy with the state's COVID-19 response. The raid, which he sees as an attempt to silence Rebekah Jones and her sources, was the final straw.
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The proposal to repeal red light cameras has failed move forward in the Senate.