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A Florida appeals court has effectively opened a loophole in the state's long-standing law against recording telephone conversations without the permission of both sides of the call, ruling that law enforcement officers performing their official duties can be secretly recorded because they have no expectation of privacy.
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An Alzheimer's training course would be developed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in consultation with the Department of Elder Affairs.
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In a unanimous ruling welcomed by civil liberties groups, the Florida Supreme Court ruled last week police cannot grant blanket anonymity to alleged crime victims under a victim’s rights provision known as “Marsy’s Law.”
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A new report indicates that the federal government severely undercounts people who died while being transported, detained or arrested by law enforcement and those who died while incarcerated.
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Palm Beach County Sheriff Office finally equipping its deputies with body-cameras.
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Police video of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in Memphis, Tennessee, is hard to watch. The images are a glaring reminder of repeated failures of efforts to prevent police brutality.
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Two former South Florida police officers turned themselves in to face felony charges over the beating of a homeless man who had been drinking outside a shopping center last month.
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A South Florida jury has sided with a white Florida police officer accused of shoving a kneeling Black woman to the ground during a protest more than two years ago.
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Tampa's police chief has resigned after using her position to escape a ticket during a traffic stop involving her golf cart driven by her husband.
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The scathing new report by lawmakers in Texas says "systemic failures" created a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman at Robb Elementary School was finally confronted.
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Since Alyssa Alhadeff was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, her family has advocated for improving school safety. Now, New York has adopted Alyssa's Law, which pushes schools to install silent panic button systems for students and teachers to alert law enforcement about an emergency.
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The new policy gives the department permanent rules about when officers can and can't engage in an activity that can endanger themselves, those they're chasing and bystanders.