Category: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Florida Senator Proposes Legislation to Take $80 Billion From IRS to Fund Armed Officers at Schools

April 26, 2023
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has introduced legislation to put full-time armed law enforcement at every K-12 school nationwide in an effort to prevent mass school shootings. The bill, known as the School Guardian Act, proposes a total of $80 billion in funding for the hirings—money previously made available to the IRS by the Democrats’ Inflation…

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DeSantis Signs School Safety Bill

June 7, 2022
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bipartisan-supported school safety bill on June 7 that addresses gun violence in schools. The bill, HB 1421, adds to Florida’s list of school safety reforms that have been legislated since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day in 2018. Florida Democrats had begun pushing for…

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Judge’s Mistake May See Parkland Shooter Avoid Death Penalty

April 27, 2022
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—A Broward County Circuit judge’s procedural mistake on April 25 could cause the Parkland shooter to get a life sentence instead of the death penalty. Attorneys for Nikolas Cruz—who is accused of murdering 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018—filed a motion asking Broward County Judge Elizabeth Scherer…

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Parkland, Florida, School Shooter’s Jury Selection Begins

April 4, 2022
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Jury selection in the deadliest U.S. mass shooting ever to go to trial began Monday with preliminary screening for the panel that will determine whether Nikolas Cruz will be put to death for murdering 17 students and staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Eighteen members of the first panel of 60 prospective…

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Parkland School Shooter’s Jury Selection Begins

April 4, 2022
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The first day of jury selection in the Parkland mass shooting trial was slow, methodical, and painstaking—a process that is expected to drag on for two months. More than 120 of the first 160 prospective jurors who filed through Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer’s courtroom on Monday were dismissed. Most said it would be…

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Families of Parkland School Shooting Victims Settle Lawsuit With DOJ

November 23, 2021
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Families of nearly all of the victims of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, have reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over the FBI’s handling of tips involving the gunman. “The parties hereby advise the Court that they have reached an agreement to settle all of…

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Survivors and Families of Parkland Victims Reach $25 Million Settlement With Broward County School District

October 19, 2021
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Survivors and families of the victims killed in the 2018 Florida high school shooting have reached a $25 million settlement with the Broward County school district in a lawsuit that had accused it of negligence, the South Florida SunSentinel reported. A total of 17 people were killed and 17 were wounded in the massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High…

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