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New app and website ‘FosterPower’ is empowering Florida’s foster youth
Bay Area Legal Services launched “FosterPower,” a free comprehensive app and website designed to help Florida’s foster youth access vital information about their benefits, protections, and legal rights. There are over 20,000 children in Florida’s child welfare system. Over the past decade, Florida has gained local and national attention for its overburdened child welfare system […]
Compromise gets child sexual assault victims deposition bill across the finish line
Rep. Taylor Yarkosky The Legislature has signed off on a compromise bill that supporters say would create “guardrails” to protect child rape victims from criminal defense depositions. The Senate voted 36-4 on the penultimate day of session to send HB 667 to the governor.
Legislature approves legalization of fentanyl testing strips
Sen. Tina Polsky Five weeks following its successful passage in the Senate, the Florida House took up SB 164, the measure aimed at decriminalizing fentanyl test strips under Florida law as drug paraphernalia by Sen. Tina Polsky, D-Boca Raton, and passed the bill unanimously. The House approved the bill in the waning days of the session. […]
Governor makes a 19th Circuit judicial appointment
Gov. Ron DeSantis May 8 appointed Anastasia Norman of Port Saint Lucie to serve as judge on the 19th Judicial Circuit Court Norman has served as an assistant state attorney for the 19th Circuit since 2008. Previously, she served as an assistant state attorney in the 15th Circuit. She earned both her bachelor’s degree and juris […]