Dara Kam | News Service Florida

A 2018 constitutional amendment designed to bolster victims' rights "does not explicitly" shield the identities of police officers — or any other people — from disclosure, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in a major decision on Thursday.

The challenge, filed by the group NCF Freedom and several New College professors and students, says restrictions in the law would strip away numerous course offerings from its students.

Citing a “crisis of availability” of care, transgender people are asking a federal judge to block a new state law making it more difficult for trans adults to access hormone-replacement therapy and surgery.

The lawsuit argues that what is known as “Section 10” of Florida's new law does not include a definition of “inspected” and thus is “hopelessly vague and incoherent.”

Voter-registration groups such as the NAACP and the League of Women Voters urged a federal judge to block parts of a new Florida elections law, arguing it violates the First Amendment and is discriminatory.

A federal judge has struck down Florida’s prohibition against Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care, calling the policy 'invidious discrimination."

The Republican-controlled House Health & Human Services Committee voted along party lines to allow Chairman Randy Fine, R-Brevard County, to subpoena records from the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Florida Psychiatric Society.

Two Florida Senate bills are cracking down on people who use bathrooms that don’t line up with their sex assigned at birth while some businessess could lose licenses for allowing children to attend raunchy drag shows.

A proposal (SB 1416/HB 1409) to revamp Florida's alimony laws — one of the most emotionally charged issues tackled by state lawmakers over the past decade — is back on the agenda during the 2023 Florida legislature.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has authorized more than $1.3 million for legal and expert-witness fees in the state’s effort to ban Medicaid coverage of treatments for transgender people.

State health regulators on Monday set in motion a process to issue up to 22 more medical-marijuana licenses, in a highly anticipated move that could double the size of Florida’s medical-cannabis industry.

In a case that could upend public access to information about policing, the Florida Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday about whether the identities of law-enforcement officers are shielded by a 2018 constitutional amendment designed to bolster crime victims’ rights.