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The Florida Department of Health is responsible for protecting the public health and safety of the residents and visitors of the state of Florida. It is a cabinet-level agency of the state government, headed by a state surgeon general who reports to the governor. The department has its headquarters in Tallahassee. [1]
Executive branch agencies and departments nominally under the authority of the Governor include: [1] [2] Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA); Florida Board of Governors
The government of Florida is established and operated according to the Constitution of Florida and is composed of three branches of government: the executive branch consisting of the governor of Florida and the other elected and appointed constitutional officers; the legislative branch, the Florida Legislature, consisting of the Senate and House; and the judicial branch consisting of the ...
In the late 1960s, the Florida Department of Air and Water Pollution Control was created under Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. Most staff were being taken from the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering of the state Department of Health. The name of the new agency was simplified to the Florida Department of Pollution Control. [citation needed]
The Department of Management Services' Division of Real Estate Development and Management (REDM) is responsible for the overall management of the Florida Facilities Pool, as well as other facilities and structures the agency has been given responsibility to manage. [9] REDM has three bureaus with employees throughout Florida.
Fort Myers Police Department in Fort Myers, Florida. This is a list of Law Enforcement Agencies in the state of Florida.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2018 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 373 law enforcement agencies employing 47,177 sworn police officers, about 222 for each 100,000 residents.
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Alex Azar [1] January 29, 2018 (Confirmed January 24, 2018, 55–43) [2] January 20, 2021 Eric Hargan [3] October 10, 2017 January 28, 2018 Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services: October 6, 2017 (Confirmed October 4, 2017, 57–38) [4] General Counsel of Health and Human Services Robert Charrow ...
The Florida Civil Defense Act was adopted in 1951. The Civil Defense Advisory Board was created in 1965. The state government was reorganized between 1965 and 1974. In 1969 the Department of civil defense along with the state civil defense council and the Florida civil defense advisory board was transferred to the Department of Community Affairs.