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Scott PowersApril 6, 2017

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 […]

Les NeuhausFebruary 20, 2017

A former child protection detective in Florida was arrested for lying in an ongoing investigation involving the possible sexual assault of a child, a spokesman for the state’s Department of Children and Families confirmed Monday. According to court records, Brittanee Sharmayne Carter, 27, was taken into custody by agents of the Florida Department of Law […]

Larry GriffinAugust 1, 2016

In a mailer sent out last week, Florida’s 9th Congressional District candidate Susannah Randolph claimed that her opponent Darren Soto tried to lower the time victims of sexual assault had to report their crime. On Monday, Soto appeared with a group of women supporting him to refute that claim — and in fact, state the opposite: […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 5, 2016

Jacksonville is determined to do whatever is necessary to help victims of sexual assault. That was the message Tuesday from three of the most powerful politicians in the city: Mayor Lenny Curry, Sheriff Mike Williams, and State Attorney Angela Corey. Jacksonville, of course, has been active in working against that scourge for a while. The Sexual Assault Advisory […]

Associated PressNovember 16, 2015

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. […]

Associated PressNovember 3, 2015

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says nearly 11,000 rape kits have not been submitted for analysis. In a spreadsheet released on its website Tuesday, the FDLE tallied 10,900 kits that have not been tested. The data came from 262 law enforcement agencies across the state. Seven law enforcement agencies did not report data. The […]

Florence SnyderApril 13, 2015

A Tallahassee theater on a holiday weekend is a lonely place, especially if the film is ‘The Hunting Ground,’ a documentary examination of sexual assault on college campuses. Frat boys and football players raping young women and young men is not a popular topic in a town where the money-making machinery revolves around Greeks and […]

Guest AuthorApril 8, 2015

The campus-security video is harrowing. In the early morning hours of June 23, 2013, four Vanderbilt University football players carry the limp, unconscious body of a 21-year-old female honors student from a car and into a campus dorm building after a night of drinking in downtown Nashville. The men dump her in a hallway and […]

Florence SnyderApril 6, 2015

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A Tallahassee theater on a holiday weekend is a lonely place, especially if the film is The Hunting Ground, a documentary examination of sexual assault on college campuses. Frat boys and football players raping young women and young men is not a popular topic in a town where the money-making machinery revolves around Greeks and […]

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Leon County landed the STAC award. Photo by Khanh Huynh – The 1990s Studio.

Domestic violence report, lawsuit threats, video complicating Augustus Invictus-Libertarian Party bonds

Florida child protection investigator arrested for lying in possible sex abuse case

Women for Darren Soto lash back against Susannah Randolph’s allegations over sexual assault bill

Jax leadership mobilizes against sexual assault

Florida’s crime rate drops, but sexual assaults are rising

Florida data shows 10,900 sexual assault kits still untested

Florence Snyder: 'The Hunting Ground' exposes campus sexual assault

Rick Brunson: It's the duty of all of us to stop campus sexual assault

Florence Snyder: A postcard from the movies