Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Attorneys for the detainees are seeking a preliminary injunction to improve communication with their clients. They claim current practices make it difficult to meet before key deadlines.

The new standards say using terms like "McCarthyism" and "Red Scare" is slander against anti-communists.

The Democrat joins a crowded field hoping to succeed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. If elected, Demings would be Florida's first African American governor.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams previously ordered the facility to wind down operations, but that injunction was put on hold by an appellate court panel.

Federal officials confirmed that a $608 million reimbursement had been approved for the center earlier this month.

The University of South Florida College Republicans and the Pinellas County Young Republicans filed a request for a three-judge panel to hear their lawsuit.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has been filing reports twice a month since being found in civil contempt for telling officers they could ignore the judge's order.

The handbook submitted last week by the state of Florida in the separate legal-access lawsuit suggests that detainees are warned that guards would enforce strict rules on dress, hygiene and behavior.

The man in his 30s was found unresponsive after riding the coaster at Epic Universe on Wednesday. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Florida may be forced to choose between forgoing federal reimbursement for the immigrant detention center or facing an environmental review that would risk shutting down the facility.