Only a few weeks after announcing her campaign for Florida House District 95 with a long list of supporters, Jasmen Rogers-Shaw announced today an endorsement by Nikki Fried, Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Florida and the Disability Rights Florida filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of individuals being held in dangerous conditions in Broward County Jail that threaten to speed the spread of the coronavirus among prisoners and staff. The lawsuit demands that the Sheriff’s Office immediately release medically vulnerable prisoners to home confinement or under other conditions so that their already heightened odds of contracting the virus and falling deathly ill are not exacerbated.
The Supervisor of Election, as defined by Florida statutes, is the custodian of all election documents and records, from voter registration to candidate filings and election results. So, you can imagine my surprise when a senior election office official acknowledged that while they maintain custody of the Microsoft SQL Server database where all votes are recorded, no one in the office can log into the database or query its data.
Allow me to be the one to tell you a secret, to share something with you that most of these men in here won’t even allow themselves to say out loud, where men in prison began to understand the reality of what the Corona virus was, the dynamics and method by which it unleashed death and the circumstances that accelerated the speed at which it could spread.
You cannot complain about the president if you don’t vote. That is why voting is essential. Moreover, talking about being oppressed and talking about doing things is not going to change the situation. We have to take action.
We all have a voice – every race, ethnicity, age. Africans Americans are now fed up and we want our voice to be heard.
In my opinion, I believe that protesting is necessary because it is one way our voices can be heard. I’m thankful for the Black Lives Movement because it’s a movement that changes the way we are treated by fighting for our freedom, liberation and justice.
We should continue to prove our point by marching and demanding fair treatment; let’s do the changes now. Black should not be a personality trait.
Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony officially filed paperwork to qualify for the 2020 election.
In light of the tragedy, law enforcement agencies across Broward County will join BSO in participating in the countywide Racial Equity and Implicit Bias Training Program for law enforcement officers which aims to combat racism.