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On Oct. 3, the Florida Department of Health sent letters threatening to criminally prosecute television stations if they did not stop running an ad that features a woman named Caroline who was ...
Under Florida Statute 784.048, "cyberstalking," defined as to engage in a course of conduct to communicate, or to cause to be communicated, words, images, or language by or through the use of electronic mail or electronic communication, directed at a specific person, causing substantial emotional distress to that person and serving no ...
The Florida Department of Health alleged that the ad constituted a "sanitary nuisance"—an act "by which the health or life of an individual, or the health or lives of individuals, may be ...
Threatening federal officials' family members is also a federal crime; in enacting the law, the Committee on the Judiciary stated that "Clearly it is a proper Federal function to respond to terrorists and other criminals who seek to influence the making of Federal policies and interfere with the administration of justice by attacking close ...
On Thursday, Oct. 17, a federal judge ordered the Florida Department of Health to stop threatening local television stations for airing abortion rights commercials.
Under section 836.12 of the Florida statute, threatening a law enforcement officer, elected official, state attorney, firefighter, judge, or any family member of any such person is a first-degree misdemeanor. Subsequent offenses are elevated to a third-degree felony.
A federal judge has blocked Florida officials from threatening television stations with prosecution for running advertisements supporting a pro-abortion rights measure in next month's election.
The legislature of Florida has also codified the Williams Rule in Florida Statute section 90.404(2)(a). [2] The federal analogue to Florida's Williams Rule is codified under rules 404(a)(2) and 404(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Evidence .