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  • DHS ransacks Florida couple’s home without explanation, strips woman naked

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    A Florida couple was traumatized after a dozen heavily armed SWAT agents crashed through their front door, flash-banged their cat, aimed rifles at them and searched their home without explanation.

    The raid took place in the pre-dawn hours of June 10th, 2014. At approximately 6:16 a.m., Kari Edwards and her live-in boyfriend were intruded upon by men dressed in full SWAT gear and wielding rifles. After smashing down the couple’s front door, agents tossed concussion grenades and proceeded into the home.

    “They busted in like I was a terrorist or something,” said Ms. Edwards.“

    [An officer] demanded that I drop the towel I was covering my naked body with,” Ms. Edwards said, “before snatching it off me physically and throwing me to the ground.”

    “While I lay naked, I was cuffed so tightly I could not feel my hands. For no reason, at gunpoint,” Edwards said. “[Agents] refused to cover me, no matter how many times I asked.”

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  • DCF investigator, husband charged with child neglect

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    A former Florida Department of Children and Families child protective investigator is among the two suspects arrested Friday on child neglect and drug charges in Osceola County.

    The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Enforcement Team executed a search warrant at a home on Hollyhock Court.

    During their search, agents found 26 marijuana plants, 8 grams of marijuana, counterfeit money and a handgun.

    Deputies said the home was in a deplorable condition, with overflowing trash and roaches and spiders on the walls and beds.

    Agents discovered six children resided at the home, but they were not there at the time.

    Homeowners Randy and Kysa Donawa were charged with production of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and six counts of child neglect.

    DCF fired Kysa Donawa upon learning of her arrest. The agency said she was hired as a child protective investigator May 2, 2014. She was assigned to a child protective investigator training class. She was not carrying a caseload at the time of her dismissal, DCF said.

    A copy of Kysa Donawa’s resume indicates she worked at DCF two times prior to her most recent employment.

    . . .

    Her job description said she is supposed to investigate allegations of child abuse and neglect and protect children from it. Kysa Donawa is now charged with several counts of child neglect.

    Full article: http://mynews13.com/ … nvestigator_cha.html


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  • Cities reluctant to reveal whether they’re using fake cell tower devices

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    Earlier in March, the ACLU filed a motion for public access request, requesting documents and information related to stingray use by nearly 30 Florida police and sheriff’s departments.

    Among the responses published for the first time on Tuesday was the curious reply from the city of Sunrise, Florida, a town of about 88,000 people, just northwest of Miami.

    Through its lawyers, Sunrise officially denied the request, noting that the city would neither confirm nor deny “whether any records responsive to the Request exist and, if any responsive records do exist, cannot and will not public disclose those records.” (In a footnote, the lawyers also cited this Ars story from September 2013 detailing stingrays and other related surveillance devices.) The ACLU published its response to the city’s denial on Tuesday.

    As the ACLU points out in a Tuesday blog post, the city of Sunrise has already published an invoice from Harris on its own website dated March 13, 2013, showing that the city paid over $65,000 for a stingray. That document clearly states, in all-caps on each page, that “disclosure of this document and the information it contains are strictly prohibited by Federal Law.”

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