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After nearly seven years of legal battling, a Leon County circuit judge has approved a 24-hour waiting period for abortions in Florida.

Newly sworn-in Census Bureau Director Robert Santos told NPR it's important to make sure there are policies in place to better protect the agency from any future political interference.

A recent case out of Boynton Beach is calling new attention to Marsy’s Law, Florida’s 2018 law designed to boost and protect crime victims’ rights. It comes as the state supreme court prepares to hear a Marsy's Law case involving Tallahassee police.

The Census Bureau must protect people's privacy when it releases demographic data from the 2020 count. Plans to change how it does that have sparked controversy over how it may affect redistricting.

A measure that would create a public records exemption for university presidential candidates failed in the Florida Senate Tuesday. Since the measure would have changed the state’s public record laws, it needed a two-thirds majority vote to pass.

Law enforcement agencies could use drones to survey crowds, assist in traffic management, and collect evidence at a crime scene or traffic crash. That's under a proposal that passed a Senate vote and is heading for a House vote. But some lawmakers have raised concerns over how the bill could impact someone's privacy.

With more people now working from home, employers are increasingly relying on tracking software to monitor what employees do when they're on the clock.

Researchers in Norway say the data-sharing appears to violate European data privacy laws. In the U.S., groups are asking state and federal regulators to investigate whether the practices are illegal.

Police in Hallandale Beach want to gain access to a unique “witness” in a criminal investigation.Adam Reechard Crespo and his girlfriend Silvia Galva had…

The Miami-Dade Police Department is asking for access to a controversial facial recognition database that bills itself as the largest of such indexes in…

Immigrant advocates are denouncing the proposal, arguing that collecting genetic information of border crossers could have implications for family members residing in the U.S.

The city of Miami wanted to have the capability to track the real-time locations of every scooter rider across the city until Uber and Lyft pushed back…