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Florida Agrees To Settle Suit For Hiding COVID Data - Joe.My.God.

After winning a decisive appellate court battle that required the Florida Department of Health to turn over COVID-19 data withheld from the public during the height of the pandemic, the legal battle over the records has ended with a settlement agreement.

Florida Agrees To Settle Suit For Hiding COVID Data - Joe.My.God.https://www.joemygod.com/2023/10/florida-agrees-to-settle-suit-for-hiding-covid-data/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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magnetosphere
kbin.social

“The Department lied about the existence of these public records in court…”

To me, this is a tremendous issue. This is perjury. Government agencies showing disrespect for court oaths is wholly unacceptable. Perjury at this level justifies prison time.

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gravitas_deficiencyreply
sh.itjust.works

Not to mention: they targeted a state health official and her family with a SWAT raid because she was making DeSantis look bad by calling out the falsification.

THAT is the authoritarianism that everyone is warning against. It’s not coming. It’s already here, and it has been for years.

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jonnereply
infosec.pub

The settlement appears to force them to produce all the missing records, which is all the suit was about. No point in continuing a suit if the settlement gives you everything you want.

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atrielienzreply
lemmy.world

Honestly this is just as much about them working through the court system for me as it is about their opposition getting the intended result. Florida's Governor and his administration have cost a lot of lives and I want things to be costly for them and the tax payers who support them.

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Heratiki
lemmy.ml

This helps so much now that so many died…. So much justice /s

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athos77
kbin.social

Produced the records they had. Does nothing for all the covid deaths that were deliberately ascribed to some other issue.

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kbin.social

It makes me sad that this is how it ends. They just settle and go on their way. Won't bring back any of the dead or curb any future bullshit.

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IHeartBadCode
kbin.social

Future generations will never understand how we waxed so on and on about justice and how this kind of "justice" was commonplace.

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library_napper
monyet.cc

On Aug. 16, 2021, FLCGA made the same public records request of the Department for all of Florida’s 67 counties and was denied for the same reasons.

On Aug. 31, 2021, the FLCGA and Smith filed suit against the state health department over the denied release of public records.

...news outlets including the Associated Press, USA Today, New York Times and the Washington Post filed a motion to intervene in the case to support the FLCGA and Rep. Smith in their pursuit of public records that detail COVID-19’s spread throughout Florida. The parent companies for the Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Bay Times, and television company Scripps Media joined in the motion. The First Amendment Foundation also joined.

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Jaysyn
kbin.social

I am greatly looking forward to the Discovery phase of Rebekah Jones' upcoming lawsuits.

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library_napper
monyet.cc

The settlement agreement requires the Department to provide detailed COVID-19 data for the next 3 years

Shit the CDC isn't even providing that data anymore

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