DeSantis signs bills targeting civilian review boards, recor

In Florida, new grand juries are cycled in every 6 months.

Are our citizen review boards” NOT based on relationships? You’re not getting on such a board without the proper political connections.

The bill doesn’t prohibit citizen review boards from looking into anything. It just says they don’t have any authority to dictate how any LE agency’s policy will be made or carried out.

As said, there are already established procedures for addressing both of those things.

This sounds like some people are just wanting to make this bill out to be something that it isn’t.

I don't know if you still work (retired or not), but how would you like a bunch of folks who hate you and have no experience doing what you do trying to nit-pick your work product.  Your posts against LEO show your bias.

As said, "The review boards can continue to operate but only in an advisory role that provides input on policies and procedures, not individual officer actions."

There will still be review boards and they will maintain the level of transparency.


I've been marveling at the headlines about the law stopping Miami Dade from dictating how workers work and their rest times.  Makes it sound like D has a vendetta against workers - they are covered under OSHA and well protected from being overworked, if any would do that anyway.

Without due respect, you don't know anything about me. I don't hate Republicans, I dislike individual office holders on both sides.

if kamala can be vice president it proves anybody can do the job. anybody. wanna argue that.

You may have a point considering Trump’s own former Vice President is not backing him.

Prosecutors present cases to them but grand juries can also bring their own investigations. Prosecutors stand with them as their legal adviser as they investigate but the prosecutor doesn’t make their decisions for them. The prosecutor’s authority is the avenue by which the grand jury subpoenas witnesses or evidence to look into. The prosecutor does what they command within the bounds laid out in the procedure.

Grand jury proceedings are completely secret. All parties are sworn to secrecy and what happens in the proceeding remains under the shroud. Therefore I cannot offer any specific example of a Grand Jury investigating a case. I can only speak to the general procedures. Only an indictment or a no true bill comes out of the proceedings. The reason for this is that it gives the citizen grand jurors freedom to look into what they want without scrutiny or criticism. The origin goes back to old England. Grand juries gave citizens a way to overrule the king in criminal prosecutions at the community level.

Calls with law enforcement can be recorded without their consent, Florida court says

An appeals court ruled the law enforcement officers have no expectation of privacy in their official roles.

GAINESVILLE — 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.

The court’s decision — involving a citizen who accused the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office of misconduct — is the latest to provide new mechanisms for civilian oversight of law enforcement, even as others were curtailed in recent days by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-led Legislature.

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