Category: Florida
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Waging legal war to make Miami Springs comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
For nearly five years, the City of Miami Springs has refused to make sidewalks and public parking spaces near a 60-year-old disabled resident’s home wheelchair accessible. Instead, the city has engaged in a legal war with Theodore Karantsalis by claiming he waited too long in taking action against Miami Springs over making sidewalks and parking spaces accessible to the handicapped. -
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Will West Lake Park ever get a 911 radio tower? Site hasn’t even been vetted for ecology fallout
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Just when it seems some Hollywood residents have lost their battle to keep a 911 radio tower out of a treasured public park, other obstacles loom. -
Mental health services for Miami-Dade seniors in jeopardy after Florida healthcare agency changes billing practices
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami-Dade senior citizens with mental health illnesses who rely on Medicaid and Medicare to cover their therapy sessions and medications are on the brink of losing their treatment thanks to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. -
New anti-protest laws in Florida, Oklahoma cast long shadow on First Amendment rights
By Carrie Levins
Center for Public Integrity
Tiffany Crutcher was worried. Oklahoma lawmakers had passed a new measure stiffening penalties for protesters who block roadways and granting immunity to drivers who unintentionally hit them. The state NAACP, saying the law was passed in response to racial justice demonstrations and could chill the exercising of First Amendment rights, filed a federal lawsuit challenging portions of it. But the new law was only weeks from taking effect. -
FDLE criminal case against Broward Sheriff Tony removed from State Attorney Pryor’s office
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Using a confidential executive order, Gov. Ron DeSantis has transferred the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s criminal case against Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony to the State Attorney’s Office in Fort Myers. -
Florida ‘ethics’ watchdog digs up loophole, gives Broward’s Lamar Fisher a pass for $565K profit on land sales to agency he once led
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The state’s ethics enforcer looked into a complaint about Broward County Commissioner Lamar Fisher’s personally lucrative land deals with Pompano Beach, where he was a growth-loving mayor, and found nothing wrong. Complaint dismissed…
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