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Drivefine is an attempt to address a small aspect of the policies in place regarding fines & fees, and identification. https://t.co/C2tQbvTkn0 This story by PBS shows how severe, widespread, and counter productive these policies really are.
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@CouncilmanViera Absolutely agree, from the @FinesandFeesJC Florida campaign page 2 million Floridians have their license suspended, lots of people impacted.
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SHARE! FL Highway Patrol is stopping commercial vehicles at the entrance of Coco Plum. They are asking folks for drivers licenses which can result in an arrest and an immigration detainer hold placed if you are undocumented. Avoid this area.
Orange County supervisors are voting today on a proposal to triple the cost of vehicle impound fees.
States & localities must stop trying to fill funding gaps on the backs of people who can least afford it. It's bad economic policy...and it's just cruel.
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Florida imposes a mind-boggling array of fines & fees on people in its justice system, including a $100 fee to use a public defender and a $50 fee just to *apply* for a public defender.
“You’re paying the state to prosecute you,” said FFJC's Lisa Foster.
https://t.co/Tlnk5Chfk1
The @browardsheriff office allowed a second pregnant woman w/mental health issues to give birth alone in a cell screaming for help + ignored by jail staff. This is disgusting and violates the Tammy Jackson act. Not one woman should experience this horror. https://t.co/QWoiM3orqY
Florida imposes a mind-boggling array of fines & fees on people in its justice system, including a $100 fee to use a public defender and a $50 fee just to *apply* for a public defender.
“You’re paying the state to prosecute you,” said FFJC's Lisa Foster.
https://t.co/Tlnk5Chfk1
#RBG's opinion in Timbs v. Indiana helped pave the way for state-level fines & fees reform.
“Protection against excessive punitive economic sanctions is 'fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty'," wrote Ginsberg.
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As folks suffer from FL's broken unemployment system and lack of COVID19 relief @GovRonDeSantis announces legislation to punish protesters, creating CRIMINAL penalties, essentially trying to incarcerate MORE people.
Fear mongering at it's finest, all for election season too.
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