Dara Kam - News Service of Florida

The lawsuit filed Friday contends the state doesn't have the authority to run detention centers and that the officers who are working at the Everglades facility lack federally required training.

The panel rejected the federal government’s argument that the restrictions are in keeping with the nation’s history of disarming people deemed dangerous, such as people who are mentally ill or drug addicts.

Several hundred people gathered in Tallahassee to celebrate Thrasher, a former FSU president and House Speaker who died at age 81.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued an emergency rule banning a compound known as 7-OH. This is a concentrated byproduct of kratom.

Disagreement about the interpretation of the prohibition against products that are “attractive to children” isn’t new.

The decision blocked a prohibition in the law on non-Florida residents and non-U.S. citizens collecting and delivering petitions.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the state’s housing capacity for the immigration effort is “a drop in the bucket."

The petition said Uthmeier’s “staffing needs are pronounced,” with 61 out of 451 attorney positions vacant.

The class action claims detention officials have “made it virtually impossible for detainees, or their counsel, to file documents required to contest their detention with the immigration court.”

Members of the Miccosukee Tribe are trying to join a lawsuit challenging an immigrant detention center in the Everglades.