Amid last week’s election recount, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission met and reviewed a timeline of the law enforcement response to the Feb. 14 Parkland shooting, including video and audio from police body cameras and radios.
One question addressed by the panel was how delayed surveillance footage slowed down police and medical first responders as they tried to rescue and evacuate victims.
A key person, former Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Scot Peterson — the school resource officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas — did not appear at Thursday’s hearing, defying a subpoena. WLRN Reporter Jessica Bakeman was at the meeting and joined Sundial with a recap and explanation of what's next.
Next, the Miami City Commission approved a one-year contract for the Ultra Music Festival to be held at Virginia Key Beach. The move came after the festival’s contract was not renewed for Bayfront Park, where the festival has been held for the past two decades. Virginia Key Beach is a historic landmark and Key Biscayne residents are concerned about the traffic, garbage and loud music it will bring. The Miami Herald’s Joey Flechas was at the commission meeting and joined Sundial with an update.
Also on Sundial: Jackson Health Foundation will hold its 20th Annual Guardians of the Children luncheon on Nov. 20. President Keith Tribble joined the show to talk about the fundraising issues facing the hospital, a new facility planned to open in Doral next year and the future of medical technology within the health care system.
Long before there was an Art Basel, high profile painters and artists were coming to Florida. The Boca Raton Museum of Art recently opened a new exhibit, “Imagining Florida: History and Myth in the Sunshine State.” It features artists from around the world who traveled to Florida to work in the early 1700s to capture the state’s wildlife, natural landscape and truly unique residents. The executive director of the Boca Raton Museum, Irvin Lippman, joined Sundial to talk about the exhibit’s collection of works.