Ryan NicolApril 10, 2019
3min486
The measure cleared the Commerce Committee Wednesday.
Tag: domestic violence
Ryan NicolApril 10, 2019
Jacob OglesApril 2, 2019
4min383
One in four women have suffered abuse by an intimate partner.
Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 6, 2019
4min430
“We need to keep more nonviolent kids out of the criminal justice system."
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 1, 2018
6min331
The domestic abuse relief group Community Action Stops Abuse (CASA) is giving its logo a bold new update to reflect a recent update in deadly incidents throughout the Tampa Bay area. The group is shedding its serene Bird of Paradise logo that featured a soft color palette with a purple and gray hand signaling a […]
Scott PowersOctober 12, 2017
5min396
Eight months after she lit statewide firestorm debates over the death penalty and Florida government separation of powers, and five weeks after she lost those debates in the Florida Supreme Court, Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala appears at peace. Speaking with a gathering of journalists Thursday morning, the controversial, still-new state attorney for Florida’s 9th […]
Scott PowersJune 1, 2017
7min921
Orlando’s reform-pledging yet controversial State Attorney Aramis Ayala defended her anti-death penalty position as “evidence based” and charged that the Florida Legislature’s $1.3 million cut to her budget will hamper anti-human trafficking and domestic violence prosecutions. In a feature published Thursday morning by Orlando-Rising.com, a sister website to FloridaPolitics.com, the rookie state attorney representing Florida’s […]
Scott PowersApril 6, 2017
14min1290
Update: On Friday morning, about 12 hours after this story was originally posted, the Libertarian Party of Florida Chairman Char-Lez Braden issued the press release Augustus Invictus said he wanted, retracting statements made in a 2015 press release that had accused Invictus of supporting eugenics and state-sponsored murder. The new release indicates the party found […]
Florence SnyderOctober 31, 20164min373
On Halloween, Daytona Beach News-Journal reporter Katie Kustura brings us a timely reminder that for many women and children, every night is “dark, and full of terrors.” Domestic violence is a notoriously underreported crime, but available statistics place Volusia County near the top of what State Attorney R.J. Larizza calls an epidemic. Larizza is fed […]
Associated PressNovember 16, 2015
1min147
Florida’s overall crime rate is dropping, but the number of reported sex offenses and sexual assaults is rising. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement released Friday a summary of crime information for the six months of 2015. The report showed overall crime volume dropped 2.2 percent compared to the first six months of last year. […]
Susan ClaryOctober 15, 2015
5min503
Thousands of domestic abuse victims – men, women and children – seek out Central Florida’s Harbor House as a safe haven each year. But the cluster of dilapidated 1976 buildings is not the best place for families in crisis. Orlando Attorney John Morgan and his wife Ultima announced Tuesday they will donate $1 million to […]