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Gov. Jeb Bush signing the Information Technology bill at the headquarters of Fusive.com in Deerfield Beach, Fla., Friday, May 26, 2000. Attending the signing from left are Roy Cales, Julia Johnson, Sen. Mario Diaz-Balart, Sen. Ron Klein, Rep. Luis Rojas and the daughters of the president of Fusive.com Ali-6, and Paige, 8, Finklestein. [ GARY I. ROTHSTEIN | Associated Press ]
Updated Dec. 22, 2020
TALLAHASSEE â When it became clear this month that multiple state agencies shared a single password for their emergency messaging systems â and that the password was posted online â some observers were not surprised.
Former Department of Health data manager Rebekah Jones has filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, saying the Dec. 7 morning raid on her house was a sham to retaliate against her for not altering COVID-19 data.
Jones was fired in May and soon launched her own online data dashboard. Gov. Ron DeSantis said her firing was because she disobeyed superiors; she said it was because she wouldn t alter data to cast Florida in a more favorable light to justify the governor s plans to reopen the state s economy.
In the lawsuit filed Sunday night against FDLE Commissioner Rick Swearingen, the department and several agents in Leon County Circuit Civil Court, Jones claims her constitutional rights were violated, including against unlawful search and seizure. She is seeking in excess of $100,000, according to the lawsuit s cover sheet.
Former Department of Health data manager Rebekah Jones has filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, saying the Dec. 7 morning raid on her house was a sham to retaliate against her for not altering COVID-19 data.
Jones was fired in May and soon launched her own online data dashboard. Gov. Ron DeSantis said her firing was because she disobeyed superiors; she said it was because she wouldn t alter data to cast Florida in a more favorable light to justify the governor s plans to reopen the state s economy.
In the lawsuit filed Sunday night against FDLE Commissioner Rick Swearingen, the department and several agents in Leon County Circuit Civil Court, Jones claims her constitutional rights were violated, including against unlawful search and seizure. She is seeking in excess of $100,000, according to the lawsuit s cover sheet.
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The former state data scientist whose home was recently searched by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now suing FDLE for damages.
In the suit she denies sending a message from a Department of Health emergency alert system, and instead suggests she was targeted for political reasons.
FDLE executed a search warrant on Rebekah Jones’ home earlier this month and took her computer, hard drives and cell phone.
They were collecting evidence to tie her an unauthorized message sent through a DOH emergency alert system, but in the lawsuit filed Monday, Jones suggests she was set up.
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