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2026 Events (23)
Florida's Juvenile Justice department left a public-records request unfulfilled for nearly two years, Florida Phoenix found
Florida Phoenix reported that the state's Department of Juvenile Justice has left the outlet's October 2024 public-records request for detention-center behavior reports unfulfilled for nearly two years, despite fulfilling a nearly identical request within three months earlier that same year. A second request from February 2025 and a March 2026 request for a statutorily mandated annual financial report also remain unanswered, and the department has given no explanation for any of the delays. First Amendment Foundation executive director Bobby Block said the pattern of non-response is increasingly common under the current administration and treats public records as a privilege rather than a right.
Sarasota, Fla. officer misused Flock and DAVID databases 335 times to track ex-partner's vehicle; fired, arrested
On August 19, 2026, the Sarasota Police Department fired and arrested Officer Cory Waiters, 38, after an internal and criminal investigation found he had misused the department's Flock license-plate-reader network and Florida's DAVID driver database to repeatedly search his ex-partner's vehicle. A USA Today reporter's independent analysis of Flock audit logs first flagged the pattern -- 335 searches of the same plate over roughly two months, including 121 in a single day -- and the reporter's August 6 email to the department triggered the internal affairs and criminal investigations. Waiters was charged with felony offenses against computer users/systems, felony official misconduct, and misdemeanor violation of public records law.
Haines City, Fla. officer arrested after 717 Flock camera searches of estranged wife's car
On August 11, 2026, Haines City, Florida police officer Christopher Goodson, 31, was arrested on one count of offenses against computer users and one count of official misconduct, both third-degree felonies. An arrest affidavit found Goodson entered his estranged wife's license plate into the department's Flock Safety camera database 717 times between September 1, 2024 and June 30, 2026, often logging false law-enforcement justifications for the searches. Goodson disclosed the searches to a supervisor only after learning a reporter had contacted his estranged wife about the pattern, and has indicated he intends to resign.
Florida AG Uthmeier opened investigation into Fauci hours after Fifth Amendment invocation, despite 2025 grand jury finding no applicable crime
On July 29, 2026, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a state investigation into former federal health official Anthony Fauci hours after Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times before the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Governor Ron DeSantis had publicly argued that Fauci's 2025 federal pardon does not excuse invoking the Fifth Amendment and separately outlined how a state prosecution could proceed, with Uthmeier's announcement following shortly after. Neither official cited a Florida statute or Florida-specific harm, and the state's own 18-month statewide grand jury had already concluded in January 2025 that no criminal statute reached federal COVID-19 officials.
Sumter County, Florida detective misused police databases and Flock cameras to track husband's ex-wife, was fired and arrested
Sumter County, Florida Sheriff's Office Detective Brandy Almany was arrested and fired on July 23, 2026, after an internal audit found she had used restricted law-enforcement databases -- including the Flock license-plate-reader network, Florida's DAVID driver database, and the Comprehensive Case Information System -- to track her husband's ex-wife for personal reasons. Investigators said Almany created fake electronic records citing unrelated case numbers to make the searches appear to be legitimate investigations, and she was charged with official misconduct and multiple counts of offenses against computer users. Sheriff Patrick Breeden suspended all Flock camera use departmentwide and ordered a full audit of database access following the arrest.
Florida Auditor General found Department of Children and Families delayed access to Medicaid audit, citing 'Significant Audit Constraints'
Florida's Auditor General found in a report released July 21, 2026, that the Department of Children and Families significantly delayed auditors' access to records needed to review the state's Medicaid eligibility determinations after the COVID-19 public health emergency's "unwinding" period, formally citing "Significant Audit Constraints." DCF took as long as eight months to fully answer some requests, including a follow-up inquiry sent in May 2025 that was not completely answered until January 22, 2026. DCF, whose secretary serves at Gov. Ron DeSantis's pleasure, strongly objected to the finding.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission used law enforcement database to secretly surveil at least 16 environmental advocates and critics
Beginning no later than 2023 and continuing through 2025, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers repeatedly accessed the state's Driver and Vehicle Information Database under false "criminal investigation" pretexts to pull the private records of environmental advocates who had publicly opposed the agency. At least 16 critics had their records accessed. FWC chair Rodney Barreto admitted the practice while framing it as a security measure, but some of the surveilled individuals had never attended an FWC meeting. The agency spokesperson later acknowledged no criminal investigations of the targets existed.
Florida renamed Palm Beach International Airport for President Trump under a law giving his company perpetual free use of the name
On July 9, 2026, Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida — a county-owned public airport serving more than 8 million passengers a year, minutes from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate — officially became President Donald J. Trump International Airport, the first U.S. airport renamed for a sitting president. The renaming was carried out under a Florida law that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed in March 2026, which requires an agreement granting Trump and his organization "perpetual and unrestricted" use of the name at no cost. Trump's trademark-licensing company, DTTM Operations, had filed multiple applications on the new name in February 2026, before the enabling bill became law.
Palm Beach Post investigation reveals Boynton Beach police sergeant misused restricted database to collect women's personal data
A Palm Beach Post investigation published July 6, 2026, found that Boynton Beach Police Sergeant Fabrice Jeanniton had repeatedly used the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's restricted driver database to look up the names, addresses, birth dates, and driver-license photos of women outside any legitimate investigation. Jeanniton had been reprimanded for the same conduct on a different restricted database in 2013, and resigned in lieu of termination in November 2025.
Gov. Ron DeSantis designated CAIR Florida and the Muslim Brotherhood as domestic terrorist organizations under new state law
On July 1, 2026, Governor Ron DeSantis announced Florida's first domestic terrorist designations under the newly effective House Bill 1471, naming the Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Antifa, along with more than 90 foreign terrorist organizations including the Sinaloa Cartel and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The law authorizes the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's chief to recommend designations that trigger criminal penalties for material support and exclusion from public funding. A federal court had blocked DeSantis's December 2025 executive order making the same CAIR designation, finding it violated the First Amendment; the legislature then enacted HB 1471 as a statutory vehicle to accomplish the same result.
Florida State Board of Education voted to bar undocumented students from state colleges and adult education programs
On June 30, 2026, the Florida State Board of Education voted to require all applicants to the state's 28 public colleges to prove U.S. citizenship or lawful immigration status, effectively barring undocumented students from the Florida College System. At the same meeting, the board approved a Florida Department of Education rule banning undocumented immigrants from adult general education programs, including GED preparation. The Florida Legislature had declined to pass similar legislation during the 2026 session before the board and department pursued the same policy through administrative rulemaking.
Florida AG Uthmeier threatened legal action against Irish dance organizations to force exclusion of transgender girl from girls' competition
On June 26, 2026, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter to An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG) and the Irish Dance Teachers' Association of North America (IDTANA) threatening legal action unless the organizations excluded a transgender girl from girls' divisions at the upcoming North American Irish Dance Championships in Orlando. Uthmeier cited Florida's public-accommodation sex-discrimination protections and the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, demanding written compliance by June 30 or his office would take enforcement action. CLRG and IDTANA both permit competitors to enter divisions consistent with their gender identity.
Florida's attorney general opened a religious-discrimination investigation into MLB and subpoenaed it over Giants' Pride Night Bible-verse caps
On June 19, 2026, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced an investigation into Major League Baseball and served Commissioner Rob Manfred an investigative subpoena, alleging the league engaged in religious discrimination by selectively enforcing its uniform rules against three San Francisco Giants pitchers who wore Bible verses on rainbow Pride Night caps. The subpoena demands MLB's uniform policies, a complete enforcement record since 2020, internal communications on the June 2026 warnings, and records tied to Florida-affiliated clubs. Uthmeier cited MLB's prior tolerance of 'Black Lives Matter' patches and social-justice messaging as evidence of selective enforcement.
Florida Legislature enacted property-tax ballot measure with misleading title and summary drafted mostly by DeSantis's office
On June 16, 2026, Florida officers signed and filed with the Secretary of State CS/HJR 1F, a joint resolution the Legislature had passed June 2, 2026 (75-26 House, 30-9 Senate), placing a homestead-exemption property-tax amendment titled "Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes" on the November 2026 ballot. The ballot title and summary language was drafted initially by Gov. Ron DeSantis's office and then altered by legislative leaders. On August 4, 2026, a Leon County circuit judge ruled the title and summary unconstitutionally misleading and ordered a rewrite.
Florida judge lets DeSantis-drawn mid-decade congressional map stand for 2026 elections
On May 26, 2026, Leon County Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes -- a DeSantis appointee -- denied a preliminary injunction sought by Equal Ground, Common Cause Florida, the League of Women Voters of Florida, LULAC and other plaintiffs challenging Florida's new mid-decade congressional map, leaving the Republican-friendly map drawn by Gov. Ron DeSantis's office in place for the 2026 elections. The map redraws the state's 28 U.S. House districts to produce roughly 24 Republican-leaning seats, flipping about four seats from Democratic to Republican-leaning and helping the GOP defend its national majority. Plaintiffs argued the map violates Florida's 2010 voter-approved Fair Districts Amendment banning partisan gerrymandering; they filed notices of appeal and have signaled the case will likely reach the Florida Supreme Court, where DeSantis appointed six of the seven justices.
Florida Legislature, FDLE steered $6M budget earmark and $16M in grants to Peregrine Technologies without competitive bidding
On May 15, 2026, the Florida House Justice Budget Conference Committee inserted a $6 million appropriation for a law-enforcement data-integration platform into state budget negotiations, wording that mirrored FDLE's own January 2026 budget request naming Peregrine Technologies directly. Peregrine's head of business development, Matthew Melton, is married to Rep. Fiona McFarland, a member of the conference committee that added the funding, and the company's lobbying firm donated $225,000 to Republican leadership PACs in the months before. FDLE's State Board of Immigration Enforcement separately granted more than $16 million from a $250 million immigration-enforcement trust fund to over two dozen local agencies earmarked to buy the same Peregrine software.
Monroe County pulled tourism funding from Key West Pride events, citing Florida's DEI law before its effective date
On May 6, 2026, Monroe County, Florida withdrew roughly $200,000 in annual tourism funding, including about $75,000 in marketing support for Key West Pride, from LGBTQ events organized through the Key West Business Guild. A senior assistant county attorney's letter to the Guild cited Senate Bill 1134, the state law barring local governments from funding or promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion activity, as the basis, even though that law does not take effect until January 1, 2027.
Florida's emergency-management division resisted a federal order for Alligator Alcatraz detainee legal phone access, calling it unfeasible
Florida's Division of Emergency Management asked a federal judge to pause a late-March 2026 preliminary injunction requiring at least one working phone per 25 detainees for confidential legal calls at the state's "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration lockup in the Everglades, telling the court that adding phone service would be "entirely unfeasible" and cost roughly $180,000 up front plus $6,000 weekly. State records showed the Division had already spent about $34.2 million on technology, internet, communications, and surveillance at the facility, most of it to a single vendor. As of April 2, 2026 the site held 1,383 detainees.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida SB 1134 barring local governments from DEI and Pride-related activity
On April 22, 2026, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed CS/CS/SB 1134, barring counties and municipalities from funding, promoting, or taking official action related to diversity, equity, and inclusion — including activity referencing sexual orientation and gender identity, such as funding Pride events, displaying Pride flags, or issuing Pride Month proclamations. The law voids conflicting local ordinances, resolutions, and policies, and provides that a local official who violates it commits misfeasance or malfeasance in office, the constitutional standard under which the governor may suspend elected officials without a court hearing. It takes effect January 1, 2027.
Lawyer alleges GardaWorld guards beat, pepper-sprayed detainees at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' facility
According to a sworn court declaration by attorney Katherine Blankenship, on April 2, 2026, guards employed by security contractor GardaWorld Federal Services allegedly beat and pepper-sprayed several detainees inside a locked cell at Florida's state-run "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention facility in the Everglades. Blankenship's declaration alleges the guards retaliated after detainees complained that the facility's phones — their only means of confidential contact with counsel — were not working; one detainee was allegedly punched, thrown to the floor, kicked in the head, and restrained with a knee on his neck, while another detainee's wrist was broken.
Florida Gov. DeSantis signed law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote
On April 1, 2026, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation — Florida's version of the federal SAVE Act — requiring voters whose eligibility is challenged via motor-vehicle record cross-checks to provide a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization certificate as proof of citizenship. The law also bars credit cards, student IDs, and retirement-community IDs as voting identification and requires driver's licenses to reflect citizenship status starting July 2027. Civil rights organizations immediately filed a federal lawsuit arguing the law will disenfranchise eligible voters who lack access to required documents, including people born without birth certificates in the segregated South or whose documents were destroyed by hurricanes.
Monroe County, Florida sheriff's deputy misused police databases and license-plate cameras to track and pull over woman he met on TV set
On February 19, 2026, Monroe County Sheriff's Office Deputy Lamar Eliseo Roman pulled over a woman on U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys using a license-plate-reader hotlist alert, the culmination of two weeks in which he repeatedly searched sheriff's-office and state databases for her personal information. Roman had met the woman on February 3, 2026 while working security on the set of Apple TV+'s "Bad Monkey," and investigators say his in-car camera showed him driving into oncoming traffic during the pursuit that preceded the stop. He was fired and arrested on a felony database-misuse charge on March 10, 2026.
Alligator Alcatraz guards Trejos and Seenaraine allegedly battered detainee during Jan. 25 transfer at Florida facility
On Jan. 25, 2026, Critical Response Strategies corrections officers Stephen Trejos and Andre Seenaraine allegedly battered detainee Rigoberto Rodriguez Arce, a Cuban national ICE had detained weeks earlier, during a chaotic detainee transfer at Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention facility in Ochopee. A witness said Trejos slammed Rodriguez Arce to the ground and struck him after handcuffed detainees banged their cuffs on benches, and that Seenaraine later punched him in another room; Trejos's attorney says surveillance video instead shows a single "compliance strike" after Rodriguez Arce spat at him. Collier County prosecutors charged both officers with misdemeanor battery in June 2026, both pleaded not guilty, and the case became public in September 2026.
2025 Events (6)
Florida Gov. DeSantis designated CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood 'foreign terrorist organizations,' barring state contracts and funds
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order on December 8, 2025 designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood as "foreign terrorist organizations," directing state agencies to deny contracts, employment, funds, and other material support to the groups and anyone supporting them. CAIR, which has more than 20 U.S. chapters and is not on the federal terrorist-organization list, sued days later alleging the order was unconstitutional and that DeSantis had usurped the federal government's exclusive authority to designate terrorist organizations.
Niceville, Florida officer used Flock camera network to stalk fellow officer, harass spouse
On October 10, 2025, the Niceville Police Department in Florida arrested Officer Coty Wayne Hall after an internal audit covering January through October 2025 found he had made nearly 200 unauthorized searches of the department's Flock Safety license-plate-reader network and other restricted law-enforcement databases, using the results to track and harass a fellow officer and that officer's spouse. Hall was charged with violating Florida Statute 815.06(2)(a), covering unauthorized computer access, and the City of Niceville fired him after the allegations became public.
Clay County school board fired teacher Kelly Brock-Sanchez over off-duty Charlie Kirk posts as Florida sought to revoke her license
On October 2, 2025, the Clay County, Florida school board terminated Exceptional Student Education teacher Kelly Brock-Sanchez, acting on Superintendent David Broskie's September 25 recommendation, over posts she had made about activist Charlie Kirk's death on a private, pseudonymous Facebook account while off duty. Days earlier, on September 22, Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas announced he had found probable cause to seek permanent revocation of her teaching certificate, part of a statewide campaign to discipline educators whose Kirk-related posts he deemed sanctionable.
Florida Department of Financial Services sent armed investigators to question Largo veteran over postcard critical of CFO Ingoglia
The Florida Department of Financial Services' Criminal Investigations Division opened a threat assessment in September 2025 after 77-year-old Army veteran James O'Gara mailed a postcard reading "You lack values" to the office of Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia. On October 1, 2025, armed state agents in bullet-resistant vests arrived at the O'Garas' Largo home and questioned Cathy O'Gara about her husband before the investigation closed with a finding of "no credible threat." Records later obtained by Reason showed then-division director Simon Blank had ordered the assessment on September 15 and Lt. Col. James Evangelina directed staff to verify O'Gara's identity.
Miami-Dade College board transferred downtown land to Trump library foundation without public notice
On September 23, 2025, Miami-Dade College's Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting with no public notice and voted to transfer a 2.63-acre downtown Miami parcel -- appraised at $67 million and potentially worth up to $300 million -- into a state fund controlled by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which then routed the land to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation. The college received no compensation for the land and has faced up to $300,000 in its own legal fees defending the transfer against a Sunshine Law lawsuit.
Florida Capitol Police arrested a transgender woman for using the women's restroom under HB 1521
On March 19, 2025, Florida Capitol Police arrested Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, for using the women's restroom at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, in a planned act of civil disobedience against HB 1521's facility-access ban. She was charged with misdemeanor trespassing and held for 24 hours in the men's ward before her release. Advocates said it was the first known arrest under any state's criminal ban on transgender bathroom use; the case was dismissed in June 2025 after prosecutors missed the deadline to file charging documents.
2024 Events (2)
Florida AHCA, AG officials diverted $10M Medicaid settlement to Hope Florida charity, routed to Uthmeier's PAC to fight 2024 marijuana measure
On September 27, 2024, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Jason Weida and then-Chief Deputy Attorney General John Guard, authorized by then-Attorney General Ashley Moody, signed an amended $67 million Medicaid overbilling settlement with Centene Corp. that diverted $10 million owed to taxpayers to the Hope Florida Foundation instead of state coffers. Within 25 days the foundation had granted the money to two nonprofits that funneled $8.5 million into Attorney General James Uthmeier's Keep Florida Clean political committee, which sent $7 million to the Republican Party of Florida and $1.23 million to the Florida Freedom Fund — money spent that fall helping defeat a marijuana-legalization ballot measure. A sealed Florida statewide grand jury presentment, leaked to press in August 2026, found the diversion was "a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities" but recommended no criminal charges.
Florida Department of Education pressured science-textbook publishers to soften or remove climate-change content for 2024 state approval
During Florida's 2024 science-textbook review cycle, the Florida Department of Education directed three publishers -- Savvas Learning, McGraw Hill, and Cengage -- to soften or remove accurate climate-change content from science textbooks as a condition of state approval, including replacing a mortality statistic with vaguer language and cutting references to renewable energy and legislative climate action. A July 2, 2024 email from a McGraw Hill vice president to FDOE's instructional materials office documents the specific changes department officials requested. Textbooks touching climate content were adopted by the state at less than half the rate of other science subjects reviewed that cycle.
2023 Events (5)
Florida Gov. DeSantis signed HB 1521 restricting facility access to birth sex and mandating birth-sex prison placement
On May 17, 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 1521, the "Facility Requirements Based on Sex" act, requiring restrooms and changing facilities in schools, colleges, and government buildings to be designated for exclusive use by a person's sex assigned at birth. The law makes willful entry into a facility for the opposite sex, plus refusal to leave when asked, a criminal trespass, and requires domestic-violence shelters and correctional facilities to house people by birth sex rather than gender identity. Enacted as Chapter 2023-106, it took effect July 1, 2023.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 1069, extending classroom gender-identity restrictions through grade 8 and mandating sex-based pronoun rules
On May 17, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed CS/CS/HB 1069 into law, expanding the state's 2022 "Parental Rights in Education" law by extending its restriction on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity from grades K-3 through grade 8. The law defines sex in the state education code as an immutable biological trait, bars teachers and school employees from providing students their preferred pronouns or titles when inconsistent with their sex, and prohibits requiring students or staff to use pronouns that do not correspond to a person's sex. It also broadened the process for challenging school library and instructional materials.
Florida Gov. DeSantis signed SB 254 banning gender-affirming care for minors and letting courts seize custody over such care
On May 17, 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed CS/SB 254, "Treatments for Sex Reassignment" (Chapter 2023-90), prohibiting gender-affirming prescriptions and procedures for patients under 18 and barring public entities from spending state funds on such care. The law also grants Florida courts temporary emergency jurisdiction over a child present in the state who has been or may be subjected to such care, and defines being subjected to it as "serious physical harm" for child-custody enforcement. DeSantis signed the measure alongside related bills at a ceremony at a Tampa evangelical school.
Florida Gov. DeSantis signed SB 1438 restricting minors' access to drag and 'adult live' performances
On May 17, 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 1438, the "Protection of Children" act, creating criminal penalties and business-licensing sanctions for admitting minors to "adult live performances." Though facially neutral, the law was framed and widely understood as targeting drag performances and LGBTQ+ expression, and Orlando's Hamburger Mary's sued within days. DeSantis signed the measure at a Christian school in Tampa during the 2023 regular legislative session.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed medical-conscience law excluding LGBTQ+ patients from anti-discrimination protections
On May 11, 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed CS/SB 1580, the "Protections of Medical Conscience" Act, at a news conference in Destin, Florida, giving health care providers and payors a right to opt out of any health care service on the basis of a conscience-based religious, moral, or ethical objection. The law's anti-discrimination clause bars providers from refusing care based on a patient's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin but omits sexual orientation and gender identity. It took effect July 1, 2023, as Chapter 2023-57.
2022 Events (2)
Florida Gov. DeSantis signed HB 7 restricting classroom and workplace speech on race and sex
On April 22, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 7 (Stop W.O.K.E. Act), barring K-12 schools, public colleges and universities, and employers from teaching or requiring training that endorses specified concepts about race, color, sex, or national origin. Federal courts subsequently blocked the law's workplace and higher-education provisions as unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in separate lawsuits; the K-12 classroom provisions were not enjoined and remain in effect.
Florida Gov. DeSantis signed HB 1557 barring K-3 LGBTQ instruction and mandating parental notification enabling forced outing
On March 28, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1557, "Parental Rights in Education," barring classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade and requiring schools to notify parents of changes to a student's mental, emotional, or physical wellbeing while barring procedures that would let a student withhold that information from a parent. Critics said the notification mandate risks forcing schools to out LGBTQ+ students to parents without consent, and the law became widely known as the "Don't Say Gay" law.
2021 Events (1)
Florida Gov. DeSantis signed SB 1028 enacting the Fairness in Women's Sports Act banning transgender athletes
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed CS/CS/SB 1028 on June 1, 2021, an education omnibus bill whose Section 12 created the "Fairness in Women's Sports Act," requiring public school and university athletic teams to be designated by "biological sex at birth" and barring students of the male sex from female-designated teams. The bill passed the Florida Senate 29-11 and House 79-37 largely along party lines.