This feels like a painful reminder that even though the election is over (according to rational people), we are still inching towards fascism. While she’s accused of illegally accessing a...
This feels like a painful reminder that even though the election is over (according to rational people), we are still inching towards fascism.
While she’s accused of illegally accessing a government system (which wouldn’t have been possible with even bare minimum InfoSec), she was essentially arrested for exposing publicly funded information on a matter of public health.
The U.S. doesn’t have a good track record with whistleblowers, but man does this story feel like one step closer to gathering political prisoners to silence dissent.
Direct link to her tweet: https://twitter.com/georebekah/status/1336065787900145665 Includes ~30 second security camera video of the police raiding her home with guns drawn.
The judge who signed the search order of my house was appointed by Governor Desantis and sworn in less than a month before he signed that warrant. In civil court. He's not even a criminal court judge. It was one of his first actions as judge.
"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.
A Sarasota lawyer resigned his appointment to the panel that picks judges on Tuesday to call attention to the way Gov. Ron DeSantis has handled “public access to truthful data” and the raiding of a data analyst’s home.
Ron Filipkowski, a Marine veteran, former state and federal prosecutor, and a lifelong Republican who was appointed to the 12th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission by DeSantis resigned Tuesday morning after reviewing the search warrant affidavit the state used to seize computers and phones from Rebekah Jones, the former Department of Health data analyst who has been running an alternative web site to the state’s COVID dashboard.
Filipkowski, 52, who has served on the Judicial Nominating Commission for 10 years and was twice appointed to the role by former Gov. Rick Scott and once by DeSantis, called the governor’s handling of the pandemic “reckless and irresponsible.”
“The recent events regarding public access to truthful data on the pandemic, and the specific treatment of Rebekah Jones has made the issue a legal one rather than just medical,’' he wrote in a letter to the governor’s general counsel. “...I no longer wish to serve the current government of Florida in any capacity.”
This feels like a painful reminder that even though the election is over (according to rational people), we are still inching towards fascism.
While she’s accused of illegally accessing a government system (which wouldn’t have been possible with even bare minimum InfoSec), she was essentially arrested for exposing publicly funded information on a matter of public health.
The U.S. doesn’t have a good track record with whistleblowers, but man does this story feel like one step closer to gathering political prisoners to silence dissent.
Direct link to her tweet: https://twitter.com/georebekah/status/1336065787900145665
Includes ~30 second security camera video of the police raiding her home with guns drawn.
Another update from her: https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336477795900411904
Amazing.
As a non-American looking in, this seems really scary and a lot like state sponsored censorship.
Related: GOP lawyer resigns over treatment of Florida data analyst