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Republican governor of Florida since 2019 and former 2024 U.S. presidential candidate, known for conservative policy initiatives.
Three Florida polls put support for Amendment 3 at 63%, 55% and 42% against the 60% it needs, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. Local governments and property investors cannot yet plan around either result.
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Hurricane Isaias killed four people and cut power to at least 600,000 after reaching Florida with 105 mph winds. Its downgrade to a post-tropical cyclone leaves the flood threat in place, with NOAA warning of up to 10 inches of rain in Georgia and the Carolinas.
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Flock Safety plans to cut about 270 jobs, roughly 18% of its workforce, Reuters reported. Two days earlier Henrico County, Virginia, said it would end its contract over protection of data shared across Flock's nationwide network.
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Tropical Storm Isaias should be a hurricane by Wednesday night and a Category 2 storm by Friday morning, the US National Hurricane Center estimates. Wind shear rising sharply in the last 24 hours before landfall may cap its strength at the coast.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has asked a judge to block OpenAI from developing new models without independent third-party approval. Trump has eased AI rules by executive order, but Florida is still taking OpenAI and Sam Altman to court.
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Asked on a Dallas tarmac whether AI could end humanity, the president said he had no concerns and put the US a year ahead of China, while three separate catastrophic-risk bills sit in the congressional record.
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Trump promised American adults $5,000 each if Republicans hold Congress, a payout put near $1.3 trillion, and the two Republican leaders who would have to legislate it have both declined to promise it.
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Marion County prosecutors charged five Indianapolis officers with fraud and misconduct for using Flock cameras to track ex-partners and women met on patrol. The department's answer is a case-number rule for every search plus faster audits, both run by the agency itself.
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A Republican senator wants a count of confirmed misuse across a 120,000-camera network. Only a product that logs who searched what, and why, can produce one.
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Two Republican states moved against automated license plate readers inside three weeks, one revoking permits it had already granted and one cutting off state money, while Flock Safety's cancellation count keeps climbing.
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August's cancellations ran roughly 45 times Flock's prior monthly rate, and the objection Los Angeles put in writing was contractual, a clause giving the vendor ownership of the plate data it collects.
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Flock says its license plate readers operate in 6,000 communities in every state but Alaska, and candidates in both parties are now pledging bans, funding pauses and warrant rules, which turns a signed municipal contract into an election-year liability.
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FDOT revoked every active plate-reader permit on state right-of-ways and says it will issue no more, which turned a five-year Flock lease in Oviedo into a seven-month deployment and left neighboring sheriffs disagreeing over what is still allowed.
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Four days earlier, Texas froze the car-insurance fee that paid for at least 3,200 Flock cameras. Neither state needed its legislature, which says something about install bases built on permits and grants.
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Republicans who cheered the AI buildout are running on "guardrails" and tax-break repeal. For anyone underwriting capex against state abatements, the discount rate just moved.
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James Uthmeier acted under a judge's order, offered no praise for Ron DeSantis's property tax measure, and pre-announced what he would do if voters reject it.
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