Dara Kam - News Service of Florida
Dara Kam is the Senior Reporter of The News Service Of Florida.
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The lawsuit was brought by Katie Wood, a transgender teacher at Lennard High School in Hillsborough County, and AV Schwandes, a nonbinary teacher fired last year by Florida Virtual School.
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A computer system serving as a backbone of the Department of Juvenile Justice was hacked in March, and many contractors providing services to at-risk and troubled youths remain unable to access the network.
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In a key battleground in the larger debate about removing and restricting school books, plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Escambia County School Board asked a federal judge this week to order officials to return to the shelves seven titles that have been off-limits for over a year.
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Attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the lawsuit brought by a transgender Hillsborough County teacher, and a nonbinary teacher fired last year by Florida Virtual School.
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Champions of short-term rentals say they provide extra income for homeowners and boost tourism, while critics complain that noise, trash, and traffic woes from a revolving cast of visitors negatively transform neighborhoods.
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The court agreed to decide whether a Tennessee law restricting puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender children is unconstitutional, in a closely watched case that is almost certain to affect similar laws in Florida and more than a dozen other states.
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Much of Tuesday’s day-long arguments focused on whether the lawsuit could be decided in Florida, as FSU challenges what it describes as more than $500 million in penalties as it seeks to exit the North Carolina-based conference.
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State election officials took suggestions about how to update the process for felons to seek what are known as advisory opinions about their eligibility to vote, with advocates calling for a procedure that provides “certainty” for people who have completed their sentences.
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The bill would have banned the sale of products containing what is known as delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol and limited the amount of delta-9 THC.
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Attorneys for the state squared off with lawyers for immigrants and an advocacy group after an unusual twist in a challenge to a Florida law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration.