SU alum Rebekah Jones raises over $200,000 after Florida police raid her home
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Posted Dec 10, 2020
Rebekah Jones, a 2012 Syracuse University graduate, designed Florida's coronavirus dashboard. She said she was fired for refusing to manipulate data to help the state reopen. (Provided photo via Tribune News Service)TNS
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Mary Ellen Klas and Ana Ceballos, The Miami Herald (TNS)
TALLAHASSEE — The raid by state police of the Tallahassee home of Florida data analyst Rebekah Jones has helped her raise more than $200,000 in two days in a new GoFundMe account and revived her national celebrity.
Jones, a Syracuse University alumna who was fired from her role running the COVID dashboard at the Florida Department of Health in May after accusing Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration of trying to manipulate state data to downplay the severity of the coronavirus, has spent much of the week appearing on national cable shows and talking with her lawyers, which now includes Tallahassee criminal defense lawyer Stephen Dobson.