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     The in-person Public Hearing will take place on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, from 6. to 7:30 p.m., with a formal presentation at 6:30 p.m. and will be held at the Hyatt Place Fort Lauderdale 17th Street Convention Center located at: 1851 SE 10 Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316. The in-person Public Hearing session will be in compliance with all current COVID-19 guidelines and social distancing will be followed.

       As Americans continue to navigate the ongoing pandemic, my office and I have been working around the clock to deliver relief and advocate for the priorities of South Florida, our state, and our nation amid this crisis. As we gear up for the work ahead in the new Congress, here is a look back on our accomplishments in the 116th Congress.

Broward Health Community Health Services distributed 1,000 turkeys along with supplemental bags of groceries to help families prepare a traditional holiday meal during its third annual event, held at the Annie L. Weaver Health Center in Pompano Beach on Thursday. 

On December 14, 2020, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Judge John J. Murphy, III vacated the armed robbery conviction and sentence of IPF client Leonard Cure. The State Attorney’s Office immediately dropped the charges, leading to Mr. Cure’s exoneration. The Seventeenth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Michael Satz agreed to overturn Mr. Cure’s conviction and sentence because of his Conviction Review Unit (CRU) concluding its re-investigation of the case. Head of the CRU, Assistant State Attorney Arielle Demby Berger performed this re-investigation and concluded that Mr. Cure was innocent, recommending his immediate exoneration.