Category: Issues
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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. -
Despite harassing behavior toward women, Lauderhill police lieutenant keeps moving up the ranks
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Lauderhill police’s top brass took 35 days to place a controversial lieutenant on administrative leave after he was accused of harassing two female subordinates at an after-work, booze-filled party at a local watering hole. -
With tens of millions of dollars at stake, a Broward jury assigns blame for 2019 Fort Lauderdale water leak
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A jury Monday held a Wellington company liable for potentially millions of dollars in damages suffered by thousands of Broward businesses forced to shut down two years ago after workers cracked open a Fort Lauderdale water main. -
After promising reform, top Broward prosecutor Pryor gives big break to charity-cheating cop
By Bob Norman
special to FloridaBulldog.org
After two years of investigation by his own department, retired Davie Police Officer Jeffrey Stewart was finally about to face justice. Then Broward’s new state attorney intervened. -
Biden moves to slow use of trains to haul hazardous LNG, but Trump’s permits let LNG ‘bomb trains’ roll on FEC tracks
By Ann Henson-Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Biden administration has proposed a rule that would temporarily halt the transportation of liquified natural gas (LNG) by rail – except in three states, including Florida, where those “bomb trains” regularly haul the highly flammable material through heavily populated neighborhoods along the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) tracks. -
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