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School district shuts down information after Stoneman Douglas shooting [Rare Media Honesty!]
Sun sentinel fort Lauderdale ^ | 5/13/18 | D Fleshler

Posted on 05/13/2018 11:08:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The he Broward school district’s repeated, emphatic — and it turns out, false — statements that Nikolas Cruz had not been in a controversial disciplinary program fit a pattern of an institution on the defensive and under siege.

Facing significant legal and political exposure over the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the district has tried to keep information from the public and put out untrue and misleading statements, frustrating parents who say this is the time for maximum transparency.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; arth; banglist; broward; browardcounty; education; florida; guns; nikolascruz; nra; parkland; promise; schoolshooting; scottisrael; secondamendment
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The district is fighting in court against the release of school surveillance video. It flatly refused to issue any records regarding the shooting to the news media, in a possible violation of the state’s open-records law. Superintendent Robert Runcie has blocked critics, including parents, from his Twitter account. More than two months after the shooting, a Broward Sheriff’s detective told a state commission on school safety that he was still waiting for the district to provide all of Cruz’s disciplinary records.

The worst came last week, when Runcie acknowledged that his forceful denials that Cruz had been involved in the Promise program, which is intended to provide an alternative to the arrest of students for minor offenses, were wrong. The district had repeatedly dismissed as “fake news” suggestions that Cruz was in the program.

1 posted on 05/13/2018 11:08:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Yuge! The Sun Sentinel is the only south Florida news source to TAKE ON THE TRUTH about the failed Democrat leadership in Broward county!
2 posted on 05/13/2018 11:10:38 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Let’s see if the other media do some journalism.


3 posted on 05/13/2018 11:11:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
Let’s see if the other media do some journalism.

Journalism is anathema to news organizations.

4 posted on 05/13/2018 11:12:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The program worked. Their website states that their goal is to keep the juveniles out of the justice system!


5 posted on 05/13/2018 11:12:51 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: SoFloFreeper
These two criminals (and yes the third one, obviously) should be spending the rest of their lives in jail cells.
6 posted on 05/13/2018 11:14:27 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: SoFloFreeper
The Sun Sentinel is the only south Florida news source to TAKE ON THE TRUTH about the failed Democrat leadership in Broward county!

Whereas the Miami Herald has been quite the laggard and appears to be highly sympathetic towards the pathetic 'leaders' there!

7 posted on 05/13/2018 11:19:11 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I recall reading an article by Brit Hume not long after the tragedy in which he mentioned that the families of those who died or who were injured should be very careful about the type of legal representation or counsel that they seek because there are that good many Democrat lawyers there who will ultimately protect ones like Runcie and Israel in the way that Hillary and Obama are protected.


8 posted on 05/13/2018 11:20:16 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Broward county is so corrupt , regardless if it is the school district, to the Sheriff Dept, to we all know the voting.

There has to be an investigation into how corrupt that county is , and it is a disgrace to FL that we have that as a county.


9 posted on 05/13/2018 11:27:08 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Their dishonesty hasn’t stopped Broward Schools from requesting a big budget increase. Never let a crisis go to waste.


10 posted on 05/13/2018 11:30:19 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

We’re staying with friends in FLL and I read this in the paper this A.M. There’s even a pro-Trump political cartoon. I thought I was reading an Onion spoof of the Sun-Sentinal.

Why hasn’t Rick Scott suspended or fired Israel? Why hasn’t the school board fired Runice? (OK, I know the answer to that one).


11 posted on 05/13/2018 11:30:31 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: TexasGator

Closed the school-to-prison pipeline, opened the school-to-cemetery pipeline.


12 posted on 05/13/2018 11:30:34 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Yuger, should be yuger.

District officials and the sheriff should be charged with criminal negligence that facilitated the murder of 17 individuals.


13 posted on 05/13/2018 11:41:03 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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14 posted on 05/13/2018 11:44:37 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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15 posted on 05/13/2018 11:51:34 AM PDT by publius911
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I cant believe a Florida paper reported official Broward's lies as grieving parents struggle to understand what happened.

SUN SENTINEL EXCERPT---Facing significant legal and political exposure over the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings, officials in charge of the district has tried to keep information from the public and put out untrue and misleading statements, frustrating parents who say this is the time for maximum transparency.

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Parents should demand Sun Sentinel "follow the money" to get all the answers.

<><> Obama gave Broward got $53 million federal tax dollars for keeping down the arrest rate of criminal students. Can officials account for all that money?

<><> it is commonplace for a Congressman to assist its district in securing federal monies.
What part did Broward resident, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, play in securing the $53 million?

<><> Sheriff Israel controls a $750 million dollar budget? Can he account for the outlays?

<><> Supt Runcie is sitting on a $800 million school bond issue that he refuses to spend. Why is that?

16 posted on 05/13/2018 11:54:01 AM PDT by Liz
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To: TexasGator
It worked.

The adults are now in it.

17 posted on 05/13/2018 12:23:25 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I am so sick and tired of just about Every last Public Employee, Public Servant, Civil Servant constantly LYING TO THE PUBLIC. What we need is a New Law:

Any private citizen or legal US resident, that can articulate a reasonable suspicion that a Public Employee, Public Servant or Officer of the Court, has made deliberate false statements during the course of their professional duties, or the the Public, Shall be Entitled to damages equal to, but not less than the maximum monetary award available in civil small claims court.


18 posted on 05/13/2018 12:24:52 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: manc

Sadly, Broward County is part of a long list of RAT-run counties across the country where their “failed programs” get “shuffled out of view” when they show the people just what abject failures they are. It’s always about protecting guilty RATs in their governments, especially the teachers and the cops, and paying all of them far beyond their worth. Just look at Runcie’s “compensation” as a prime example. This guy should be a janitor at one of his schools.


19 posted on 05/13/2018 12:26:33 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: eyeamok

“I am so sick and tired of just about Every last Public Employee, Public Servant, Civil Servant constantly LYING TO THE PUBLIC. What we need is a New Law:”

Yes, and their only “sin” is getting caught at it!


20 posted on 05/13/2018 12:27:36 PM PDT by vette6387
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