The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld the temporary ban on Florida’s drug-testing for welfare recipients. The Court stated that Florida failed to show that the drug testing plan was so critical that the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which bars unreasonable searches by the government, should be suspended. Governor Rick Scott immediately Read more about March Issues of Interest[…]
Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll resigned March 12, 2013 in the wake of a federal investigation into a chain of internet cafes, Allied Veterans of the World, which she once represented. Lieutenant Governor Carroll consulted for the company in 2009 and 2010 when she was serving in the Florida House of Representatives. She resigned to prevent the Read more about Resignation of Lieutenant Governor Carroll[…]
Governor Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet in January agreed to accept a $4 million lease buy-out from Palace Entertainment which cleared the way for Silver Springs, one the of state’s oldest tourist attractions, to become part of the adjacent state park, Silver River State Park. The north Florida attraction, famous for its glass bottom Read more about Issues of Interest[…]