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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-whistleblower-search-warrant-20201207-rapzkgm7fnbujlhwzadunciigu-story.html
Rebekah Jones, a vocal critic of Gov. Ron DeSantis handling of the pandemic, tweeted a video showing officers entering her home with guns drawn.
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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement served a search warrant at Jones Tallahassee home in connection with an investigation that started Nov. 10, Gretl Plessinger, an FDLE spokeswoman, said in a prepared statement.
The Department of Health filed a complaint with FDLE regarding unauthorized access to a DOH messaging alert system used for emergencies, she said.
ffr
(23,072 posts)Get out of there!
dhill926
(16,898 posts)unacceptable...
Blue Owl
(54,430 posts)But the GOP is OK if they storm in and take your computers away?
Biophilic
(4,604 posts)I couldn't even finish watching the video after the cop pulled his gun looking up the stairs where the husband and kids were. I'm still sort of mentally stuttering. What the hell are the guns for? Whatever this was it wasn't about a violent crime so why the guns?
We must change things in this country. I haven't felt ok about 'Defund the Police' but now I'm thinking maybe that is exactly what we need to do before the police and fascists take over this country. I'm not an alarmist normally, but this really, really upset me.
I don't know how to respond responsibly. I honestly don't know if I can face the next 47 days. Yeah, I'm pretty upset.
niyad
(119,186 posts)Native
(6,276 posts)niyad
(119,186 posts)Native
(6,276 posts)The DOH said recently that someone hacked the emergency communications channel. Jones told a reporter that she is not a hacker: "I don't know how to do that stuff."
The FDLE affidavit for the search warrant said a special agent spoke to a DOH official with the Preparedness and Response office about a suspected breach of the custom-made communications system for emergency management.
An unidentified subject gained access to the system and sent out a group text saying: "It's time to speak up before another 17,000 people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don't have to be a part of this. Be a hero. Speak out before it's too late."
The text message was sent from the ESF-8 mail account to 1,750 recipients before the software vendor could stop the message from being transmitted further, the affidavit said.
The ESF-8 account is the state's emergency support function for public health and medical services and is used by many people from several agencies, including DOH and Emergency Management.
"Once they are no longer associated with ESF-8 they are no longer authorized to access the multi-user group," the FDLE affidavit said. All authorized users use the same user name and password.
Jones told a reporter for the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida that her sources at DOH told her an email had gone out across the department from the ESF-8 email account around the time that five of eight team leaders had been fired.
Jones told the reporter that a series of firings and resignations in DOH, including recently departed public information officer Alberto Moscosos departure, were a purge.
It's like a massacre. And those aren't the only people that have been fired or left, she said.
Jones also said she has backups of the data and files that power her websites that were stored on the seized hardware.
"This is what happens to scientists who do their job honestly," Jones tweeted. "This is what happens to people who speak truth to power."
niyad
(119,186 posts)Chainfire
(17,757 posts)The message is, fuck with the governor and face terror. You can either keep the party line, or we will come for you and your family. That is DeSantis. That is the Republican Party.
tulipsandroses
(6,036 posts)assholes are still not willing to say, hey we were wrong, lets course correct so we don't lose 300k more. No, we are going to terrorize someone and her family that is trying to show people the truth of how deadly this virus is. It will never be able to understand how cruel these people are.
Midnight Writer
(22,886 posts)We can't serve a subpoena, summon a witness, request documents from anyone in the Administration without triggering years of lawsuits, but we can jump right on it with a SWAT team when someone embarrasses a Republican official.
jb5150
(1,270 posts)DeathSantis is doing everything he can to hide the numbers.