News Service of Florida
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement commissioner on Tuesday continued to stand by agents who conducted a search of the home of a former state employee accused of hacking into the state’s COVID-19 emergency response system.
While asserting that his agents did not point guns at the children of Rebekah Jones, Commissioner Richard Swearingen defended the way they dealt with Jones. In part, he said she had previously been involved in an altercation with a police officer in Louisiana.
Swearingen told reporters that in 2016, the Louisiana State University Police Department charged Jones with one count of battery on a law enforcement officer and two counts of resisting arrest.