Jack Latvala

Said Chris Latvala about his father Jack, the longtime Pinellas County lawmaker who died last week at age 74: “He would be proud of what his friends said about him in death, and also his political rivals.”

Latvala, a voice of bipartisan political change, was a power broker in Pinellas County who retired in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations after announing a 2017 run for governor.

The Florida Commission on Ethics has ended a long-running case against the former Pinellas Republican senator, who left office amid sexual-harassment allegations.

A lawyer for the Florida Commission on Ethics filed a motion seeking to dismiss a complaint against former state Sen. Jack Latvala, more than five years after the Clearwater Republican resigned from office amid sexual-harassment allegations.

The former Pinellas Republican senator resigned five years ago after allegations of sexual misconduct.

Former state Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, had agreed to a settlement. But that was rejected by the Florida Commission on Ethics.

Florida's Republican-controlled state Senate agreed to pay $900,000 to settle a complaint filed by a high-ranking legislative aide who accused a former…

A Tallahassee-area prosecutor says there is insufficient evidence to prove that former state Senator Jack Latvala traded sexual favors in order to help…

Former state Sen. Jack Latvala, who resigned his seat after a sexual-harassment investigation, formally withdrew from the gubernatorial campaign…

Florida law enforcement authorities said Friday that they have begun a criminal investigation of a state senator who abruptly resigned after an…

The Florida Senate is mandating that each senator undergo an hour of workplace and sexual harassment training before the start of each legislative…

Maintaining his innocence after a special master concluded he had engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment for years, Sen. Jack Latvala announced…