Federal judges said the letters left families unable to tell whose coverage was ending, or why, and that the state must spell it out before cutting anyone off
Category: Health
Posted inHealth
Amendment 3 would slash Florida’s health safety net. But no one knows what that will look like
Local hospital districts are the last stop for many uninsured Floridians. Amendment 3 could shrink the property taxes that fund them
Posted inFlorida News Articles & Reporting
Jacksonville, Florida’s Gun Violence Is Rooted in Redlining and Homes Built on Toxic Waste
Poisons from Jacksonville, Florida’s “Brown’s Dump” seeped into the lifeblood of residents. The harm to their physical and mental health is tied today to another public health crisis: high rates of gun violence among children.
Posted inHealth
In Florida, immigrant Medicaid crackdown ensnares eligible families
People who still qualify for Medicaid are getting pulled into a bureaucratic vortex along with those a new federal law meant to remove
Posted inCriminal Justice
How state officials fought for months to keep a lid on Hope Florida report
This week, a higher court issued a damning rebuke of the grand jury and its report, which the court found was ‘careless in its grammar, mistaken in its law, and unfaithful to its own record.’
Posted inFlorida News Articles & Reporting
How Hope Florida quietly hollowed out Florida’s safety net
State records show the controversial initiative shifted priorities away from DCF’s eligibility division that has since failed federal standards and left Floridians cut off
Posted inHealth
Florida has left mentally-ill defendants in jail for months past legal limits, lawsuit says
At least three people died, and the psychiatric conditions of others deteriorated, while waiting for transfer to state hospitals
Posted inEnvironment
Florida sets new course for controversial herbicide program behind closed doors
Florida’s herbicide spraying has sparked public backlash and promises to reform the way the state manages invasive aquatic plants. But state officials are starting to form that strategy in secret.
Posted inState Government
Where are they now? Key actors in Hope Florida scandal got promoted
Despite finding the $10 million was misappropriated, the grand jury said there was “insufficient evidence” to charge anyone criminally – because no one would admit to orchestrating the scheme.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Where Florida’s Gun Violence Exacts Its Biggest Toll on Black and Latino Children
An analysis of hospital claims data in Florida found that firearm injuries of children
disproportionately hit families in a handful of ZIP codes, almost all of them in Jacksonville, Orlando,
Miami, or Tampa Bay.