Janelle Irwin TaylorJune 3, 2024
10min0
Hooper, a retired firefighter, often champions legislation benefiting first responders. This year was no different.
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Janelle Irwin TaylorJune 3, 2024
Tristan WoodMarch 15, 2022
5min0
The two-year residency program will help adults with autism develop employment and independent living skills.
Jason DelgadoOctober 19, 2021
7min1398
An investigation uncovered rampant physical, sexual and mental abuse at the state-operated institution.
Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 7, 2019
5min465
The bill would establish a process to file claims.
A.G. GancarskiApril 22, 20195min616
Renner's 2019, in many ways, is a preview of what his Speakership will look like.
Jacob OglesMarch 3, 2019
5min666
At least 106 died at the schools. Many more faced abuse.
Joe HendersonApril 17, 2017
5min224
There were all kinds of messages being sent to Gov. Rick Scott late last week at the Florida House of Representatives. The one from Democrat Bill Nelson, a three-term U.S. senator, can be summed up in two words: game on. Republican House Speaker Richard Corcoran had his own two-word message for the governor. I think […]
Scott PowersApril 6, 2017
5min352
Many of the members of the House Judiciary Committee were reduced to fighting off sobs Thursday after hearing a half-dozen survivors’ stories from Florida’s horrific Dozier School for Boys reform school, which one survivor, Robert Straley, dubbed “a beautiful hell” for the picturesque grounds maintained for misleading appearances. One after another described the trips to the […]
Associated PressApril 4, 2017
1min231
Several men painfully recalled being beaten and sexually abused at a north Florida reform school as the state begins the steps to formally apologize for the horrors they endured more than 50 years ago. A Senate bill to recognize the abuse at the now-shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna was unanimously approved […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 9, 20173min486
Countless young Floridian men were brutalized at the Dozier School in Marianna. Two Florida Democrats, Rep. Tracie Davis and Sen. Darryl Rouson, believe that it is time for the state to answer for the abuse conducted over a staggering 111 years. HR 1335/SR 1440 were filed, asserts a press release from the legislators, “to strongly condemn and apologize for […]