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The data scientist fired for refusing to “manipulate” Florida’s Covid figures has sued state police who raided her home to seize computer equipment.
Rebekah Jones posted video footage of the raid earlier this month and claimed Florida governor Ron DeSantis had “sent the gestapo for her.
Ms Jones, who created Florida’s Covid-19 portal, has claimed she was fired from her job because she refused a request to censor data to boost the state’s plan to re-open.
Now she has filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, saying that the 7 December raid was a “sham” and carried out to retaliate against her.
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.