Dara Kam

September 24, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Desmond Meade, left, a former drug dealer who has garnered international accolades after leading the drive to pass a 2018 constitutional amendment to restore voting rights for felons, said he's been waiting two decades to have his civil rights restored.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

September 22, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The proposal announced by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, would create new felony crimes when property is damaged or when people are injured as a result of protests involving seven or more individuals.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

September 18, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The latest legal twists come as the Florida Department of Corrections moved forward with a switch from 12-hour to 8.5-hour shifts at 17 prisons, despite objections from the union representing correctional officers and a Leon County judge.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read

September 02, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Judge Kevin Newsom noted that many people infected with hepatitis C will "spontaneously clear" the virus without treatment.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read

September 01, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The Department of Education will pay the Gunster law firm $550,000 to represent Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, Gov. Ron DeSantis and state education officials who are defendants in litigation to reopen brick-and-mortar classrooms amid the coronavirus pandemic.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read

September 01, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, the chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, says that in-person meetings in the future likely will be held at the BB&T Center in Sunrise.

By Dara Kam

4 minute read

August 27, 2020 | Daily Business Review

U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle has ruled that the state cannot deny the right to vote to felons who are "genuinely unable to pay" their court-ordered debts.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read

August 26, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Education Association was alleging that Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran's order requiring brick-and-mortar schools to reopen five days a week in August violates the Constitution's guarantee of "safe" and "secure" public education.

By Dara Kam

7 minute read

July 31, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Judge Charles Dodson has agreed to at least temporarily keep secret the identities of two Tallahassee police officers involved in use-of-force incidents against a Black transgender man.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

July 30, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Gun-control activists targeted National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer following the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in which 14 students and three faculty members were killed.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read